RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.02.2025
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
TRUMP AND HIS NEOCON TEAM WANT TO LEAVE UKRAINE TO THE BRITISH AND EUROPEANS, ENGAGE RUSSIA, AND THEN WAGE ECONOMIC WAR UPON CHINA.
USA | RUSSIA | CHINA | UKRAINE | EU | NATO
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Elon Musk says ‘Reuters is lying’.
The billionaire has denied the agency’s report on plans to cut Ukraine off Starlink to pressure it into the rare earths deal.
A Starlink system used by the 59th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has accused Reuters of “lying” as he denied the agency’s report on plans to threaten Ukraine with cutting it off Starlink internet access to gain leverage in the ongoing bargaining about natural resources.
The agency reported on the matter on Saturday, citing three US officials familiar with the plans. According to Reuters, the Ukrainians were threatened with an “imminent shutoff” of Musk’s Starlink satellite service during a meeting between Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and Trump’s envoy, Keith Kellogg, in Kiev this week, should they not sign the deal on rare earths with Washington.
Musk took to his social media platform X later in the day, denying the existence of such plans and accusing Reuters of “lying.”
“This is false. Reuters is lying. They are second only to AP (Associated Propaganda) as legacy news liars,” the billionaire wrote.
READ MORE: US threatens to shut down Starlink in Ukraine – Reuters
SpaceX has provided the Ukrainian military with Starlink internet since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022, delivering more than 40,000 terminals over the course of the hostilities. The terminals have promptly become a key command and control tool for Kiev’s military. The deal
Musk’s systems have also seen direct combat use, with satellite terminals repeatedly seen rigged to aerial and sea drones used by the Ukrainian military to provide them with a reliable and hard-to-jam control access.
SpaceX reportedly secured a new Pentagon contract to expand Ukraine’s access to the Starlink satellite network late last year. According to a Bloomberg report, a total of 3,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine were granted access to Starshield, a more secure and militarized version of the system, under the deal.
Starlink Shutdown: A Ticking Time Bomb for Ukraine's Armed Forces.
Elon Musk’s threat to cut off Starlink may deal “the most powerful military-technical blow to combat capabilities of Ukrainian armed forces,” veteran military and international affairs specialist Andrei Koshkin told Sputnik. Here’s why.
The possible shutdown would mean that the Ukrainian troops would be unable to:
coordinate their artillery strikes
launch and pilot unmanned aerial vehicles – not least reconnaissance drones – and unmanned surface vessels
exchange messages, including on tactical information
use satellite telecommunications
The Starlink ultimatum testifies to Donald Trump's determination to achieve his goals, Koshkin said.
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It could put serious pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Trump’s rare earth metals deal.
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VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
TRUMP AND HIS NEOCON TEAM WANT TO LEAVE UKRAINE TO THE BRITISH AND EUROPEANS, ENGAGE RUSSIA, AND THEN WAGE ECONOMIC WAR UPON CHINA.
