RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.04.2023
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…?”
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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.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
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Lead feature:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Putin Tours Battlefronts, Meets Top Commanders; Russia Massive Bombing; East Europe Rejects Grain.
THE DURAN
Putin visits frontline, prepares defense and offense.
Chinese Defense Minister in Moscow. Preparing for the battle to come.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
End of golden age. Putin visits frontline. Spring offensive amazing & fast. CBC 69% state media. U/1
GONZALO LIRA'S ROUNDTABLE
The Roundtable #54: Brian Berletic and Pepe Escobar.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Putin visited the sites of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine | Russia.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
BREAKING!!! Putin visits Russian troops in Ukraine's Kherson, Luhansk regions.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Putin on the front line, Bakhmut garrison is collapsing, Kyiv is losing the European market, NATO...
Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (April 18, 2023)
Geopolitical Trends, w/Dr. David Oualaalou
Putin Visited Frontlines in Kherson & Lugansk in Eastern Ukraine!
REDACTED
Oh SH*T, it's starting again.
So THIS is why they're so scared of the Ukraine document leaks | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
The United Nations just lost it's F**king MIND with this | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris.
PATRICK LANCASTER
Frontline Nuclear Disaster imminent At Power Plant If Attacks Continue. Russia Ukraine War.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Doc Leaker's job - the reality. Leak remains Highly Suspicious.
DANNY HAIPHONG - PEPE ESCOBAR
PEPE ESCOBAR LIVE ON RUSSIA AND CHINA LEADING A MULTIPOLAR WORLD IN REVOLT!
SEAN FOO
The BRICS Masterplan To Dethrone The Dollar | This Is Serious.
TRUEINFO
Brazil draws Russian FM Lavrov praise on Ukraine situation.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
US No Longer Superpower: Iranian FM Spokesman.
FIRSTPOST
China MoFA LIVE: Chinese Foreign Ministry News Conference | Putin meets Chinese Defence Minister
Meeting between Vladimir Putin and the Minister of Defense of the People's Republic of China.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
China advances construction, application of space internet.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Beijing denounces US for abusing cyber security as disguise for true agenda of cyber hegemony.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Everything You Need to Know About Sudan: Richard Medhurst LIVE.
JACKSON HINKLE
UKRAINE'S MASSIVE Spring Offensive LEAKED In Pentagon Documents.
HISTORYLEGENDS
Ukraine is Running Out of Soldiers.
RACHEL BLEVINS
Corporate Media Worked With U.S. Intelligence To Out Pentagon Leaks Suspect.
KIM IVERSEN
BOMBSHELL: Former Obama Staffer Reveals Corruption Involving Hunter and Joe Biden.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Doc Leaker: More Red Flags.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
Call me a Traitor? Doc Leaker Jack Teixeira is a hero. Let me explain why.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
EU chief fears China will divide Europe amid Putin's war; Warns Western leaders | Watch:
U.S. losing influence among Arabs & Israelis? China offers to mediation in Israel-Palestine conflict.
Putin surprises Zelensky; Visits Ukraine's Kherson, Lugansk regions | Reviews war situation.
Wagner 'liberates' two more Bakhmut areas as Putin's men unleash 54 artillery strikes | Watch:
'EU forced to comply with U.S.': Putin's minister red-flags Biden and Sunak's 'Ukraine Ploy'.
US admits Putin's Bakhmut victory inevitable? 'Psychological blow for Ukrainians if...' | Watch:
Putin's men wipe out 95 artillery units, foil big Ukrainian advance in Donetsk | 270 Soldiers Killed.
Anti-Putin sanctions to backfire on Dollar? Biden 'panics' as U.S. Treasury Secy warns.
Russia preps Navy for new Ukraine offensive? Putin's praise amid Pacific fleet drills.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Brazil welcomes Russian FM Lavrov after Lula's 'time to talk' remark on Ukraine.
FIRSTPOST
Russia’s Pacific Fleet Deploys Nuclear Submarines and Special Forces as Part of Drills.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Son of toppled Iranian Shah makes controversial visit to Israel.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
Paul Kagame Says Russia Has A Right To Be Wherever It Wants In Africa.
BREAKING POINTS
Media Spins Pentagon Leak As RUSSIAN OP.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - TONY SHAFFER
Security Clearances, Leaks & Gov Lies.
TFIGlobal
#TheNewWorldOrder : EU admits defeat to Russia. Hands over frozen assets.
INVESTOPADS
"How BRICS Could Change the US Economy FOREVER!" | Robert Kiyosaki 2023.
THE GRAYZONE
Live from Paris - Jeremy Loffredo at anti-Macron protests.
THE BREACH
Noam Chomsky says NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”.
NOAM CHOMSKY
On China, Artificial Intelligence, & The 2024 Presidential Election.
STEPHEN GARDNER
Biden Crime Family Busted With Joe Biden abusing Vice President Office for favours says Whistleblower.
RUSSELL BRAND
“You Just Lied!” Elon’s Rant & Pentagon Papers BOMBSHELL #109 Stay Free With Russell Brand PREVIEW.
RUSSIAN NEWS
No wonder the United States keep an eye on Zelensky! Zakharova, Russia, Ukraine. RU.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
China’s Saudi-Iran Peace Deal Is a Major Setback for US Empire, w/ Prof. Mohammad Marandi.
LENA PETROVA
🔴 BRICS NEWS: CHINA BRAZIL Unite To END The U.S. Dollar Hegemony As Their Top Priority.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Beijing rejects self-glorifying, China-smearing US arms control report, urges US self-reflection.
LIU SIVAYA
HUNGARY AND POLAND BAN UKRAINIAN GRAIN. Slovakia and Bulgaria too. What happened? (Spanish.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The ARROGANCE of the U.S.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 18th April 2023:
Pentagon leaks reveal date of Ukrainian counteroffensive – Newsweek.
Kiev is reportedly expected to launch a push against Russian forces at the end of this month.
The start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian troops has been planned for April 30, Newsweek reported on Sunday, citing a leaked Pentagon document.
Dated February 28, the file details equipment deliveries and a training schedule for nine brigades that “can be generated for the spring counteroffensive” with the help of the US and its allies. Three additional brigades are expected to be gathered “internally” in Ukraine, according to the file.
Out of the nine brigades trained and equipped by Western countries, six will be ready by March 31, while the “final” three will be ready by April 30, the document claimed.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmigal told The Hill during a visit to the US last week that an offensive might not be launched until the summer. Speaking to reporters on Monday, the premier suggested that the Pentagon leak would not change Kiev’s plans, asserting that “we are confident that the counteroffensive will happen in the nearest future.”
Aleksey Reznikov, Ukraine’s defense minister, previously said that offensive operations were dependent on the supply of heavy equipment from abroad. The Washington Post reported on April 12 that the long-expected push had been delayed due to bad weather, slow equipment deliveries, and ammunition shortages.
A trove of classified US documents, including intelligence reports and daily updates on the Ukraine conflict, came to the attention of news organizations in April after being dumped online sometime earlier this year. The suspected leaker, US airman Jack Teixeira, was arrested by the FBI last week.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday that Moscow had looked into the leaked documents, although Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has suggested that some of the files could be part of a “deception” campaign.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
A Blessing Before The Battle. Bakhmut Grinder Still Works. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.18
Dams on the Dnieper. Activation in Vuhledar. Bakhmut. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.18.
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
BAKHMUT ENDGAME | FIRST LEOPARD LOST | Full Front Update.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
ARMED FORCES STRIKES BACK - SE Sudan secured Kassala and Al Qadarif [ Sudan SITREP ] Day 2 (16/4)
SUDAN CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT - Rapid Support Forces attacks Armed Forces [ Sudan SITREP ] Day 1 (15/4).
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front Update [18 April 2023]
Sudan Crisis [15 -18 April 2023]
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
Russia's Massive Strike In Bakhmut On Ukrainians & Ukraine's Offensive In South Of Bakhmut.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Siege of Bakhmut The Finale Outcome.
RYBAR UPDATE
Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: April 17, 2023.
M MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine: Day 418 [ 18 April ] Limited Ukranian Advance Near Predchytene.
FREE RUSSIA CHANNEL UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HISTORY OF MAKUS ENG
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
No update posted so far today
Detailed situation reports can be found on a daily basis concerning events in Ukraine over the past 24 hours at the ‘A SKEPTIC’ Substack account:
Link to 'A SKEPTIC' Substack channel.
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SUPPORTING SCOTT RITTER
I've been listening to Scott Ritter describe how things are for him and I suspect have been for him for quite some time now.
He has been doing a LOT of unpaid work with a great many interview requests coming in that he has been ready and willing to agree to. But the work where receives some pay for have suffered due to this, being left until the wee small hours of the night to complete work on.
Scott, I think you will agree, has been one of the most influential voices out there on Russia and Ukraine.
I was moved by Scott's words to take an annual subscription to his Substack account that he runs in coordination with his colleague on 'U.S. Tour of Duty', Jeff Norman. This is the main way that Scott recommends to help him with finances with which to upgrade his delivery of comment on Russia and Ukraine, via a better microphone etc. and perhaps the creation of a recording studio in his basement to create a more professional and impressive look. To invest in these things he would like to be sure that this has a viable financial future.
Would you also like to help by subscribing at one of the various levels to Scott's Substack account? I hope so. If so the link is here:
Below you'll find the edited part of the video where Scott talks of his commitments to get the facts out on events in Ukraine and of the finances that would come in handy to enhance their delivery:
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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
SUPPORTING NAZIS IS THE PRIME INDICATOR OF THE WEST’S INCREASING EVIL
The way western political and media elites portrayed the surrender of those who emerged from the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol is extremely enlightening.
The merchandise of the Nazi-loving members of the AZOV BATTALION is even sold on Amazon. That is how far the unconditional love of these anumals have gone, these thugs who were once a proscribed organisation that it was said no U.S. aid should reach. Now they are love-bombed.
The word used right across the western mainstream elites for the surrender of those bedecked by tattoos of swastikas was "evacuation". There was no credence to be given to the actuality, that they put their hands up in the air and gave up the ghost.
They were hailed in the West as heroes. Unfortunately for them the regime in Kiev thought of them in quite a different light and sent a couple of missile into their midst as they were sleeping, killing dozens of them. This is the response by their fellow countrymen to them and to any who surrender. They are targeted for death. By their own side.
But in the western world the capitulation of these Nazi-mentality thugs is portrayed as some kind of heroic ‘Dunkirk-style’ saving of grace for that herd of sadistic, mentally-deranged swine. So it goes within the war mode mentality of all media and political elites within the western world.
The above is due to the fact that journalism has virtually ceased to exist within the entire sphere of activity known as western mainstream news. All pretence to integrity of reporting has vanished when those who laud Hitler and his Nazis can be greeted by wails of sympathy when they are forced to emerge and surrender themselves.
The Gestapo could not have been more proud of the way abject evil can be turned into a sweetness & light glory. Joseph Goebbels would certainly nod in appreciation of the wall-to-wall uniformity of the message.
It is almost as if there exists a network of editors, commentators, pundits and politicians who have the ability to instantly message the current buzz word to be used in any given circumstance.
So we have these glorious “heroes” of the West that at one time they even warned the world about (when it appeared western interests might be threatened). Now that they have a common enemy in Russia those with a murderous Nazi-mentality are their friends.
Thus they have been ‘evacuated’ and no doubt Zelensky will have played some key part in achieving this “success”. Here we see just HOW far so-called journalism and “news” broadcasting has fallen in the West. Down to the same depths of depravity where their political class now dwells.
Down just as deep as these Nazis rats that now emerge from the darkness that they were so well suited to.
