Thunder – Decision Made: The Safe Zone Will Be Established Nova Poltavka Has Fallen MS 2025.05.22
By Military Summary
This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 22nd of May 2025.
Here’s what others had to say:
@abuseofmainstreammediacanh5713
Drone wave: So much for whether it is wise to give Ukraine the opportunity to take a breath with ceasefires.
@RegisMichelLeclerc
The thing is that the Russians now know all the launching sites and could follow the movements immediately after the launch. There may be some FAB-1500 flying tonight.
@SuperLuky64
The Russians have managed to get a fantastic weapon, a 50-piece missile launcher, with a redar detector and a laser pointer, this detects up to 10 drones or missiles, and the pointer marks them at speed, allowing the missiles to hit all targets. They have installed 14 of them in Moscow, and more are in production. So between the air force, anti-aircraft emplacements, and these new generation weapons, it is unlikely that any object will hit the target.
@lonestar1233
Responding to a huge drone attack, Putin announced buffer zones today is several Ukraine regions that are next to Russia. It seems likely that the buffer zones aren’t in the regions that Putin named. The entire regions are the buffer zoeae.
Certainly from a Russian standpoint, all the area of Ukraine east of the Dnieper River needs to be occupied at a minimum. The new buffer zone regions will be a major step toward this goal.
@kb9oak749
It should be noted that Russia is currently not at full mobilization, nor have they completely converted their economy to full wartime production. This is not a win for UKR or NATO. It will only make Russia even more formidable.
@markpowder4664
Not overloaded by night, some probably went sleep. And safe zone were decided some time ago. Anyway 500 long distance Ukraine drones in 2 days is quite big numbers.
@vladimircurkoski1455
This guy live in Marvel Universe, like if Ukrainians send 485 drones 63 will get to Moskow bit if send 4000 than 600, well first of all proportions are not precize and second why not 4mil but only 4k?? If Ukrainian had 4000 drones on disposal to send to Moskow they would done that but they don’t have 4000 fix wing drones which can fly all the way to Moscow.
@IgorL-rv1mn
The ukranians probably realized their recon drones where being used to test Russian drone interceptor technology. So they used them all early before reaching their end of life use.
@gregloates
The more stupid things Elensky & Ukr’n does, the larger these “Safe Zones” are going to get. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Just sayin’..
@examplerkey
Putin kept saying guys don’t launch hundreds of drones simultaneously because we may mistake them as a decapitation strike and Ukraine keeps asking for it. Stupidity or stupidity?
@regsmith5972
This is nonsense Dima, that some drones get to the Moscow region does not mean they reached their targets. No significant damage means no significant effective attacks by Ukraine.
@KennethMichael-e8n
Sometimes your analysis I don’t know, these is not the first time Ukraine is sending drone in to Russia and Putin didn’t make the decision of a buffer zone because of the drone attack it happened almost everyday. Putin has been talking about the decision of a buffer zone for months now he even made same statements to the defense chief when he visited Kursk region two months ago and he made same statement when he visited Kursk yesterday, Putin decision of a buffer zone is not new.
@Mactavich-j8t
The British said it loud that they will concentrate on supplying Ukraine with drones. So Russia should work hard to develop an anti-drones defence. Way cheaper than anti-missile.
@MrBeagleblue
You can clearly see Russia reasoning on not having NATO in Ukraine when you see how close to Moscow they launched those drones imagine if they were tactical nukes.
@jtmorehead241
Russia now has all it needs by Ukraine’s actions to drive their military to Dneiper, possessing all of Eastern Ukraine.
Obvious that Russia will take that territory and all Coastline to include Odesa, before considering a Peace Treaty.
@alexandernorman5337
I doubt Russia is going to shift the focus areas for their forces. And so there won’t be a big push into/towards the Chernihiv or Shostka regions. Reason being is that it would take too long to make a meaningful impact – as shown by the slow rate of progress near Kharkiv and Sumy. So it makes more sense for the Russians to keep pushing the Ukrainians on their current weak points rather than spend weeks reorganizing (and giving the Ukr forces and equal amount of time to reorganize in preparation). Also, the Chernihiv and Shostka regions aren’t particularly important for Ukraine with regards to either agriculture or mineral extraction. And so there is no economic advantage gained by Russia shifting the fight to there.
@vladimircurkoski1455
We don’t know if Russians will change direction just because some drones can reach Moscow, Moscow is a really big city you moght say huge with something around 20mil people and I don’t think they need to change plans becuse Ukrainians doesn’t have unlimited number of drones, nobody has.
@sylvesterdefoe
Dima sound very excited about these drones heading to Moscow. But he’s not realising one basic fact. These drones are heading to heavily populated areas. Not military targets.
@christianenriquez52900
17:17 Military Summary, l don’t think you should assume the Russians are going to change any plans in regards to the offensive in Donetsk. Ever heard of the word simultaneously?
@TrueNorth12e
It’s obvious to me that great majority of these Ukranian drones are being built in the west and given to Ukraine. In fact i happen to know where several of these factories are. If these drones were not shot down at the rate of at least 95% , I would say Russia would be much closer to a war with NATO. Expect a VERY large retaliation from Russia.
@MrBeagleblue
Dima Ukrainian drones have already reached Moscow before it`s nothing new and Putin had already told his generals to create the buffer zone so nothing new in this either.
@michaelmartin4383
The Russians have plenty of soldiers in reserve to start a new front, without disrupting current ongoing operations.
@TimKennedy1
Your math is wrong on how you calculate how many drones can reach Moscow. The ratio does not remain consistent. There is a limited amount of air defense and once overwhelmed almost everything will get through. But such an operation is infeasible.
Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NbxXJJJNZk
