War & Conflict with Preston Stewart
Oct 7, 2026 · 26 min · 9 segments
Two weeks ago we learned about Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi, their counteroffensive in the east. And today, we’re joined by one of their battalion commanders that took part in those clearance…
Preston StewartHost
How long you guys carried this operation out and nothing really came out about it.
How did you do that? As a commander, I'm sure there were some challenges of making sure your soldiers didn't accidentally put something out that could be compromising.
Yeah, this is the first way from where the information going out is soldiers.
First of all, our commander of our corp, he did not explain the whole plan, the whole operation to every one of us at the same time.
So the information was separated in time and in people.
And what about my units, my troops, my soldiers? I told them what we should prepare for, for example, clearing the three lines for village or moving at night or on a vehicle or other things.
We just trained like... separate lessons.
And then I think about a couple of weeks before operation, I showed them on the map where it should be.
But actually for culture, it doesn't matter.
too much, because for him it's clearing one tree line or another, one village or another, he just clearing the village, he just shooting an enemy, so it was okay.
simple things, what we should do to make this operation secured in information area,
I'm sure you've seen that recently, or maybe you haven't, but during some of the fighting with Iran, there were soldiers filming missile strikes.
They were excited to show a video to a friend, and the friend of a friend's mom got it and posted it to Facebook, and all of a sudden, it's out there.
I can say that you have not much experience, because at the start of the war we have the same.
Everyone knows that he must make a video and send it to every man on this planet, so it's okay.
How long you guys carried this operation out and nothing really came out about it.
How did you do that? As a commander, I'm sure there were some challenges of making sure your soldiers didn't accidentally put something out that could be compromising.
Yeah, this is the first way from where the information going out is soldiers.
First of all, our commander of our corp, he did not explain the whole plan, the whole operation to every one of us at the same time.
So the information was separated in time and in people.
And what about my units, my troops, my soldiers? I told them what we should prepare for, for example, clearing the three lines for village or moving at night or on a vehicle or other things.
We just trained like... separate lessons.
And then I think about a couple of weeks before operation, I showed them on the map where it should be.
But actually for culture, it doesn't matter.
too much, because for him it's clearing one tree line or another, one village or another, he just clearing the village, he just shooting an enemy, so it was okay.
simple things, what we should do to make this operation secured in information area,
I'm sure you've seen that recently, or maybe you haven't, but during some of the fighting with Iran, there were soldiers filming missile strikes.
They were excited to show a video to a friend, and the friend of a friend's mom got it and posted it to Facebook, and all of a sudden, it's out there.
I can say that you have not much experience, because at the start of the war we have the same.
Everyone knows that he must make a video and send it to every man on this planet, so it's okay.
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