RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 07.08.2024
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*** UKRAINE SUFFERS HUGE LOSSES FIGHTING HOPELESS WAR ***
“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 comments on Kursk Region incursion attempt.
Kiev has been indiscriminately attacking civilians, the Russian president has said.
Ukraine has conducted its latest large-scale provocation against Russia by launching an attempted incursion into Kursk Region, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian forces “are conducting indiscriminate fire from various types of weapons, including rocket weapons, at civilian buildings, homes, ambulances,” Putin said at a government meeting.
The president said he is regularly briefed on the situation by the Defense Ministry and other relevant governmental departments. He is also in touch with acting Governor Andrey Smirnov and has pledged additional support for the Kursk Region administration to help it deal with the emergency.
Earlier in the day, the governor said that Moscow has dispatched a team of skilled medics to help his region’s healthcare system tackle the surge in injuries caused by Ukrainian fire. Kursk emergency services will also be bolstered by additional hardware necessary to address the damage.
More than 2,000 people have fled the border areas, some with the assistance of rescuers, since the crisis broke out on Tuesday morning, Smirnov said. Authorities have provided emergency shelters for those who need them, while neighboring regions also offered their help to the refugees.
READ MORE: Russian military issues update on border fighting
The Defense Ministry has claimed that Russian troops had inflicted serious damage on the Ukrainian forces deployed for the attempted cross-border operation. The military says Kiev has failed to achieve its goal of securing a foothold in the Russian region, losing hundreds of fighters and dozens of pieces of heavy weaponry in the process.
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Ukraine Lost Over 115,000 Troops in Less Than 2 Months - Shoigu.
Ukraine has lost over 115,000 servicepeople in less than two months, this might not have happened if Kiev had met Russian President Vladimir Putin Putin's initiatives halfway, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.
In June, Putin said that Russia would immediately cease fire and begin negotiations with Ukraine after Kiev withdraws troops from the territory of Russia's new regions and officially abandons plans to join NATO.
"Over these two months, the territory liberated by our troops has increased by 420 square kilometers, and Ukrainian troops have lost, according to the [Russian] Ministry of Defense, more than 115,000 [servicemen] of their troops ... Although this could have been stopped if the demands set out by our president had been met. Therefore, our position is clear, understandable — the troops are moving forward," Shoigu told reporters.
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Donbass push, winged bombs and hunt for Western-supplied armor: The week in the Ukraine conflict.
The Russian military has liberated multiple new locations in Donbass while continuing its aerial bombing campaign.
The past week in the Russia-Ukraine conflict has been marked with Moscow making new advances in Donbass and liberating multiple settlements in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
The most active hostilities continued to the northwest of the strategic DPR town of Avdeevka, liberated by the Russian military in February. Russian forces continued to expand their zone of control near the town of Ocheretino, once a major logistics hub for Ukrainian troops, seized by Moscow in April, with Kiev’s forces apparently still unable to stabilize the front line in the area.
Last Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the liberation of the villages of Progress and Yevgenovka located to the southwest of Ocheretino. The latter settlement effectively forms a single agglomeration with the village of Voskhod, liberated by Russia last month.
The next day, the Russian military said it seized the village of Volchye, located to the south of Progress. The westward push in the area continues, with the latest media reports indicating further advance of the military in the area.
On Sunday, the Defense Ministry announced the liberation of Novosyelka Pervaya, a large village located 3.5km to the south of the Yevgenovka-Voskhod-Sokol area. The settlement has seen active combat over the past few weeks, with the Russian offensive supported by heavy artillery and aerial bombardment. The village is split in two roughly equal parts by the Volchya River, with the minor waterway serving as a natural obstacle for the troops.
The Russian military has also made progress near the DPR city of Gorlovka, with intense combat continuing amid the advance on the town of Toretsk (also known as Dzerzhinsk), located to the northwest. The Russian military has reportedly made minor gains in the village of New York (also known as Novgorodskoye), as well as capturing the village of Leninskoye (Pivdennoye), a small settlement between Gorlovka and Toretsk.
Ukrainian troops reportedly remain in their heavily fortified entrenchments between New York and Gorlovka, as well as further to the south. The remaining forces are now risking a potential encirclement should Moscow’s forces be able to establish full control over the narrow, 5km in width, exit out of the pocket.
Hunt for Western-supplied armor
Over the past week, the Russian Defense Ministry reported the destruction of multiple Western-supplied tanks, including rare pieces in Kiev’s stock. Last Monday, the ministry shared footage of an artillery strike on a US-supplied M1 Abrams tank.
The vehicle was found to the northwest of the city of Avdeevka where it got stuck in an overgrown trench, footage shared by the military shows. The tank was destroyed by a single Krasnopol guided shell, fired by a 152-mm Msta-S self-propelled howitzer.
On Tuesday, a drone video showing the destruction of a Leopard 2A4 tank and reportedly taken near the Ukrainian-controlled Donbass town of Kurakhovo emerged online. The vehicle was spotted while firing at Russian positions, receiving return fire and unsuccessfully trying to escape it in a wooded area.
The tank sustained multiple hits, eventually catching fire in its ammo stock in the rear of the turret, which eventually spread into the crew compartment, the footage shows.
The Russian military has also reported the destruction of two older German-made Leopard 1A5 tanks, sharing footage of kamikaze drone and artillery strikes on the vehicles near the town of Kupyansk in Kharkov Region.
Footage shared by the military on Monday shows a Leopard 1A5 being hit by a Lancet loitering munition in its rear while speeding along a dirt road. The strike caused internal fire, with open flames seen erupting from its hatches.
The second Ukrainian tank was targeted by Russian artillery as it tried to hide in the shrubbery. The Russian military said the vehicle ultimately sustained a direct Krasnopol hit and was destroyed.
Vehicles of this type are technically the most numerous Western-supplied tanks in Kiev’s inventory, with over 170 vehicles pledged by various parties, yet the old machines have only been spotted on the front line on a handful of occasions.
Rear strikes
The Russian troops have continued the aerial campaign against Ukraine’s military rear and logistics, striking numerous targets near the front line. Over the past week, the military reported the destruction of multiple buildings used to accommodate troops and store various hardware, including suicide drones.
Last Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry showcased a strike on a temporary accommodation point in the DPR village of Velikaya Novoselka. The strike was conducted with a rare UPAB-1500B, a ‘true’ high-precision glider bomb. Munitions of this type have rarely been used in the conflict, as Moscow’s forces have been sticking to conventional freefall bombs fitted with Universal Correction and Guidance Module (UMPK) winged upgrade kits.
Another UPAB-1500B was reportedly used in the Ukrainian-controlled town of Gulyaypole in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region. The bomb hit a temporary accommodation point, with a surveillance UAV observing the strike and the work of the Ukrainian military evacuation teams, footage circulating online shows. The teams were tracked to another accommodation point that apparently received a FAB-1500 bomb with the UMPK kit.
The largest Russian freefall bomb to receive the UMPK kit upgrade, FAB-3000, was reportedly used to strike another military accommodation in the town of Liptsy in Ukraine’s Kharkov Region. Footage circulating online shows the massive bomb scoring a direct hit on the building, flattening one of its sections and badly damaging the rest of the structure.
Another drone video purports to show a strike on a building used by the Ukrainian military on the outskirts of the village of Scherbinovka, 12km to the northwest of Gorlovka.
The building was apparently hit with an air-launched missile, likely a Kh-38, sustaining severe damage. The building reportedly housed an UAV operator unit, with at least 13 servicemen killed in the strike and an unknown number of drones stockpiled at the site destroyed.
Counter-artillery effort
The Russian military has continued the hunt for Ukrainian high-value assets, destroying multiple Ukrainian self-propelled and towed artillery pieces with counter-battery fire and high-precision strikes.
A video circulating online shows a Lancet kamikaze drone striking a rare German-supplied PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer. The artillery piece was discovered in an unspecified location on the front line as its crew attempted to conceal the vehicle in shrubbery.
However, the howitzer still had a significant heat signature and remained easily recognizable, the infrared video shows. The vehicle sustained a Lancet hit, yet it remained unclear whether the howitzer was destroyed or merely damaged in the strike.
The Russian Defense Ministry has shared footage of a strike on a US-made М270А1 MLRS system, spotted near the village of Novotroitskoye in Russia’s Kherson Region. The tracked heavier cousin of HIMARS was identified by a surveillance drone while traveling along a road with an escorting soft support vehicle.
The launcher was tracked to a hiding spot in a wooded area. The location was hit by an Iskander-M ballistic missile system. The М270А1 MLRS, the escort vehicle, was destroyed and up to 15 Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the strike, the Russian military has said.
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Donbass push, winged bombs and hunt for Western-supplied armor: The week in the Ukraine conflict.
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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.
RUSSIA OUGHT TO DECLARE WAR ON UKRAINE AND HAVE DONE WITH IT
The latest clear act of war by the Kiev regime against Russian territory ought to end the patience of Russia's president & military high command. Zelensky must now be taught a vital, final lesson.
The latest incursion into Russian Federation territory will perhaps result in a final end to Russian patience over such attacks, clearly acts of war. Putin has apparently called for a meeting of Russia's Security Council for 1pm Moscow time.
A very clear signal to the Kiev regime in response to this latest attack is vital. Declaring war on the regime and hitting government offices wherever they have been located across Ukraine would be my choice of response.
Attacking such targets has been avoided until now as has declaring war on the regime. Clearly there are significant geopolitical risks and potentially very negative consequences which are without doubt why this has not been done till now. But it seems to me we have reached a point where declaring war and hitting these targets has become necessary no matter what those knock-on consequences for Russia may be.
Of course another reason for not declaring and waging all-out war against Ukraine is the (until now) perceived need to have someone in power there to negotiate Ukraine's eventual capitulation or peace settlement. If Russia was to eliminate Zelensky then this would create a crisis and possible power grab by the Nazis of Ukraine. Zelensky however, shows zero sign of EVER submitting to the inevitable end of this conflict. He appears totally incapable of confronting the reality of the situation. And besides, the chances are that there would be massive popular resistance in Ukraine to the Nazis taking over. They have suffered incredibly in so many ways that they are surely totally sickened by the war and crave its end.
If it is necessary for Russia to take temporary control of western Ukraine so be it. A Ukrainian president and government for Ukraine that acts pragmatically to restore peace and end the dominance of Ukrainian Nazi forces is vital. Russia would be in a position to coordinate the process of electing such entities in the first few months after Zelensky and his minions are gone. A transition to EU control would be coordinated with Brussels but with the stipulation backed by Russia’s overwhelming military power in the region that no entry to NATO by Ukraine would be permissible.
With the world largely distracted by Israel's genocidal war in Gaza and particularly in this moment by Iran's expected response to Israel's latest assassinations it may be exactly the right time to hit Zelensky and Kiev and hit them very hard.
