RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 28.01.2024
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.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
VIRTUALLY UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2nd JUNE 2014
A lot has been said about atrocities in the western media claimed to have been perpetrated by the Russians, for example at Bucha and Mariupol among others. These assertions are conveyed on the say so of the Ukrainian authorities. How willing though are western news broadcasters to convey atrocities attributed to the Ukrainians? The following will I think provide the answer.
If anyone wonders if they are receiving accurate coverage of the conflict in Ukraine I would suggest watching the video below of an event which occurred on the 2nd of June 2014 and ask themselves if they recall hearing about it on any mainstream media news channel at the time.
The video is harrowing to watch. The bodies (five women and three men) are real. Yet across western media there was only one single news report that occurred a day later. This was from CNN and occurred only because a CNN team happened to be nearby at the time of the atrocity and so the network could hardly ignore it as all others so obviously did.
The video below shows the unvarnished truth that was not considered newsworthy in western mainstream news.
THE SINGLE WESTERN MSM REPORT ON THE LUGANSK ATROCITY, 3rd JUNE 2014
The video at the CNN link below is the crime scene sanitised by CNN, though played straight with honest reporting on the scene not playing things to Kiev’s tune.
(There was a time early in the war in the Donbass when CNN were not afraid to contradict the Ukrainian regime in Kiev.) Watch, because it's the first and last time you will see this.
5 women and 3 men died, all civilians.
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Putin vows to eradicate Nazism for good.
The Russian president claims that the governments of Ukraine and the Baltic states have adopted “Hitlerite ideology and methods”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to crush modern-day forces that promote Nazism, singling out Ukraine and the Baltic states as countries where the authorities have embraced such ideologies.
Speaking on Saturday at the opening of a memorial to Soviet civilians killed by Nazi German forces in Leningrad Region, the Russian head of state said: “these days the outcomes of the Nuremberg trials are effectively being revised.” He claimed that some countries have gone from rewriting history and whitewashing the Nazis to “arming themselves with Hitlerite ideology and methods.”
President Putin cited the Baltic states, in an apparent reference to their treatment of Russian-speaking minorities, which Moscow deems discriminatory.
“The regime in Kiev lionizes Hitlers’ accomplices, SS members, and uses terror against” those who resist it, the Russian leader alleged, accusing the Ukrainian authorities of subjecting the elderly, women and children to “barbaric shelling.”
According to President Putin, “in a number of European countries, Russophobia is being promoted as the state policy.”
“We will do everything – everything to undercut and eradicate Nazism for good,” the Russian head of state pledged.
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He went on to predict that modern-day proponents of the Nazi ideology are doomed.
Putin noted that January 27 marks 80 years since the Soviet Army broke the Nazi Siege of Leningrad, which began in September 1941 and claimed the lives of more than a million civilians.
President Putin’s own parents lived through the ordeal. Indeed, his older brother succumbed to diphtheria at the age of two in the besieged city.
He noted that Nazi Germany was conducting a genocide of the Soviet population, leaving a deep scar on all generations since, with memories never fading away over the past eight decades.
In his New Year’s address to Russians, former President Dmitry Medvedev said that the “ultimate defeat” of neo-Fascism, an ideology “Russia’s enemies are trying to rekindle” should be the country’s “main goal” in 2024.
Earlier in December, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told AFP that Moscow “will not allow the existence on our borders of an aggressive Nazi state.”
She added that the goal of “denazification” of Ukraine proclaimed by President Putin back in February 2022 remain unchanged.
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Moscow's forces have achieved significant success in repelling Ukrainian attacks across multiple fronts, inflicting substantial losses on the Kiev regime's troops.
The latest updates from the Russian Defense Ministry detail successful defenses in Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and other regions, coupled with precision strikes on Ukrainian air defenses and military installations. The intense clashes have seen Ukrainian forces suffer significant casualties, impacting both the Kiev’s regime troops and military equipment.
In a recent development, Russian forces effectively thwarted two attacks launched by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian side suffered substantial losses, including up to 250 soldiers, two armored vehicles, and an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, according to information from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Battlegroup Yug, operating in the Donetsk area, successfully repelled the attacks in the Shumy and Bogdanovka regions through precise artillery strikes. Additional Ukrainian personnel and military equipment were neutralized in various settlements of the Donetsk People's Republic, including Krasnoye, Klescheyevka, Andreyevka, Georgiyevka, and Novomikhailovka, as highlighted in the ministry's briefing.
Success on Zaporozhye Front
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Kiev regime incurred losses of up to 20 soldiers, a combat armored vehicle, and two cars in the Zaporozhye region.
The operation involved the use of artillery support, targeting Ukrainian troops and military equipment of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade in specific areas, including Rabotino and Nesteryanka in the Zaporozhye region.
Notably, the self-propelled artillery units Akatsiya and Gvozdika were destroyed during counter-fire combat.
Four Attacks Repelled in South Donetsk
In the South Donetsk region, Russian forces successfully repelled four attacks launched by Ukrainian troops. The engagements resulted in significant losses for Ukraine, including up to 115 servicemen and two Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers. Units of the Battlegroup Vostok played a pivotal role in repelling the attacks near the settlement Priyutnoye in the Zaporozhye region and Makarovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian losses, as reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense, included 115 soldiers, three cars, and two 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery units.
In a separate incident, Russian air defenses successfully intercepted seven rockets launched from HIMARS and Vampire multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). Additionally, 28 Ukrainian drones were destroyed across various areas in the Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, and the Kherson region within a day.
Ukraine Suffers in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk Areas
Russian forces successfully repelled a total of seven attacks on the Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk outskirts within a day, resulting in Ukrainian losses of up to 125 soldiers. The Battlegroup Zapad repelled five attacks in the Kupyansk area, while Battlegroup Tsentr successfully repelled two attacks in the Krasny Liman region.
Ukrainian losses included 125 troops, two combat armored vehicles, three cars, and a D-20 howitzer.
Russian Forces Hit S-300 Complex, Fuel Depots, and Aviation Facilities
Russian aviation and artillery conducted targeted strikes on a Ukrainian S-300 SAM system in the Cherkasy region, as well as fuel depots and aviation facilities in Kirovograd and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
The military briefing highlighted that troops and military equipment of the Kiev regime in 102 areas were affected during the operation.
Russian Units Decimate Ukrainian Troops in Kherson
In addition, Russian units reported destroying up to 15 Ukrainian soldiers and four Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers in the Kherson region within a day.
Overall, since the start of the special military operation, Russian forces have eliminated 568 aircraft, 265 helicopters, 11,283 drones, 456 air defense systems, 14,805 tanks and armored vehicles, 1,210 MLRS combat vehicles, 7,881 field artillery and mortar pieces, along with 17,940 units of special military vehicles, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
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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.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
WHAT CONDITIONS MIGHT RUSSIA SET FOR AN END TO ITS UKRAINE CAMPAIGN?
The war in Ukraine will have an end at some point. There is incentive on both sides, but of varying degrees. Might it be that a ceasefire and new elections may precede it? What are the possibilities?
Any negotiations Russia would countenance to end its campaign in eastern Ukraine would have to be with the USA. This on the basis, as the saying goes, of talking to the organ grinder and not to his monkey. Besides which, the Ukrainian regime have shown time and time again that it no longer has any intention to talk to the Russians on this issue. However, there is no reason for Russia to trust U.S. officials at any level, this being due to the unreliability of any agreements being likely to last the test of time. The USA has an extremely poor record on this account.
However, the USA is currently overstretched and besides this its gambit regarding using Ukraine to weaken Russia has quite clearly failed. There is little to no upside to continuing this effort, especially when there are more urgent concerns in the Middle East and Far East to concern itself with.
Without doubt, if it was politically possible for the Biden administration to manage the fallout from extricating the USA from the Ukrainian debacle it would use it. The problem is that on the face of it, in an election year in the U.S. it is difficult to see how this obvious failure could be managed effectively. Of course this depends on the general sentiment of the U.S. populace in this regard. It is quite possible that the administration’s failure to defeat Russia could be spun to advantage. How could this be done?
In recent weeks the favoured (and of course false) narrative being tested on public opinion is that Russia had the goal of taking and occupying all Ukraine and failed. This lie would be hammered home at every opportunity. A sub-narrative would of course be that this was a Ukrainian victory. Facilitated by the USA of course. Every part of the mass media circus which favours the Democrats would mirror both narratives. Using such a smokescreen Biden’s failure in Ukraine might just possibly be sold as an enormous positive.
This past week an article was published in the Washington Post that signalled the possibility that the idea of the Kiev regime taking back its lost territory could be abandoned. This bowing to reality considering Russia’s overwhelmingly strong position on the battlefield bodes well for an eventual settlement but as ever, the devil is in the detail. Why should Russia trust that a mere frozen conflict was being contemplated after which the western allies would simply re-arm Ukraine to restart the war again later?
Naturally Russia would like to put all this behind it but not without attaining its goals which were set at the outset.
The minimum conditions would be Ukraine never joining NATO, the Ukrainian military being essentially demobbed and reduced to ceremonial duties only, complete security for the Russian-speaking population of the Donbass and a fully funded campaign to eliminate all semblance of support for the Nazi-legacy cult in western Ukraine. It must be suspected also that Russia would insist upon new presidential and general elections occurring in Ukraine. These may even be demanded by Russia to be held while Russia continues its campaign to drive the Ukrainian army from the Donbass.
Naturally the USA will seek to convince Russia to postpone many of its demands to a later date, preferably after November. In the meantime the possibility of a ceasefire will likely be broached by the U.S. side with the enticement for Russia that there will be an acknowledgement from the USA that Russia can retain the lands it has already taken. Any such statement will have dubious value however, as Russia will know. The overwhelming ( and no doubt accurate) suspicion will be that this can be overturned at the drop of a hat whenever this administration (or the next) deems it necessary.
Trust, or rather the lack of it, is the primary reason why coming to an agreement on halting this conflict, even temporarily, will almost certainly founder. The U.S. state, along with its allies have demonstrated a general willingness to deceive and renege on commitments. While the Biden administration has many reasons to want the Ukrainian debacle to go away and soon, Russia, getting stronger by the day and seeing the Kiev regime’s position growing ever weaker, has no particular incentive pushing it in that direction.
Will Biden and his people seek at least a ceasefire if not negotiations to end the conflict entirely? This looks very likely. Will Russia engage in talks, most likely back channel talks exploring the possibility of a ceasefire with a guarantee that the USA would insist Kiev agree to holding elections? This latter suggestion might well attract a positive response from Russia. However, it must strongly be suspected that Russia would insist on continuing its campaign at least up to one week before polling day, or closer still.
Depending on the result of the elections a whole new scenario of possibilities may open up. With Zelensky and his entire cabinet and possibly his entire party gone who know what might then be agreed under these entirely new circumstances? A Russia-neutral president and government in Ukraine might just transform the situation and allow all manner of new possibilities to flow. If this was to transpire then the possibility of a final end to hostilities in Ukraine could emerge, and the rebuilding process on all fronts begin.
The Ruskies would be mad to trust the Yanks for even the time of day.
No sensible person or State would ever trust the West or Yanks again, ever.
Peace.