Check out my book "What Caused the Russia-Ukraine War": https://amzn.to/3HY5aqW. You can also read it for free by signing up for a Kindle Unlimited trial at https://amzn.to/3QMsBr8. (These are affiliate links, meaning I earn a commission when you make a transaction through them. This means that even if you read for free, you are still supporting the channel.) It is 8 am on February 24, 2022. Although no one in Ukraine realizes it yet, what is about to unfold in a relatively unassuming part of the country will be arguably the single most important event in Ukrainian history. The stakes could not be higher: the country itself is on the line. This is story of the Battle of Hostomel Airport. 0:00 Introduction 1:43 Prologue 6:12 Mobilization 10:36 Russia's Plan 14:44 The First Shots 16:37 Interlude 17:58 Ukraine's Back Up Plan 20:43 The Counterattack 23:51 Epiolgue Media licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en): From Kyivcity.gov.ua: https://kyivcity.gov.ua/photo/ItemImage_50_dniv_aktivnogo_sprotivu_okupantu_mriya_nikoli_ne_pomre_foto__kmda_oleksiy_samsonov/ From Mil.gov.ua: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lieutenant_General_Valerii_Zaluzhnyi.jpg From Rosavtodor.ru: http://rosavtodor.ru/about/upravlenie-fda/upravlenie-stroitelstva-i-ekspluatatsii-avtomobilnykh-dorog/transportnyy-perekhod-cherez-kerchenskiy-proliv/novosti/301381 From Kremlin.ru: http://www.kremlin.ru/sdocs/news.shtml?day=17&month=09&year=2008&Submit.x=0&Submit.y=0&value_from=&value_to=&date=&stype=&dayRequired=no&day_enable=true http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/18963 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/20626 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/47664 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50140 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50329 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/51004 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/56244 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/60490 http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/61467 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/61584 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/62249 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/62277 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/trips/62560 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65925 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66327 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67315 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67514 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68258 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68605 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/trips/69308 http://kremlin.ru/events/president/trips/69318 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69366 http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69636 From Mil.ru: https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=17460@morfVideoAudioFile https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=17469@morfVideoAudioFile https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/media/video/watch.htm?id=17510@morfVideoAudioFile http://мультимедиа.минобороны.рф/multimedia/video/clips/more.htm?id=17565@morfVideoAudioFile Media licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en): From Vasiliy Koba: http://spotters.net.ua/file/?id=95892 From Vitaly V. Kuzmin: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IL-76MD_-_TankBiathlon2013_(modified).jpg Media licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en): From Igor Dvurekov: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mil_Mi-8P,_Baltic_Airlines_AN1723454.jpg Media licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en): From RIA Novosti: http://visualrian.ru/ru/site/gallery/#848095 From Alex Beltyukov: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Antonov-Design-Bureau/Antonov-An-225-Mriya/2178900/L/ Media licensed under CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/): From OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine: https://www.flickr.com/photos/osce_smmu/16109335994/ From Clemens Vasters: https://www.flickr.com/photos/clemensv/8293020999/ Media licensed under GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2): From Ralf Manteufel: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-(Antonov-Design/Antonov-An-225-Mriya/1240864/L/ From Dmitriy Pichugin: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Kamov-Ka-50/0920728/L/