RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 15.10.2023
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
Israel Delays Offensive, Rus Ceasefire Proposal, Rus-Turkey Gaza Relief; Putin: Tactical Advances.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of the DURAN
Weather delay. China calls for ceasefire. Iran warns Israel/US. Arestovich, Elensky must go. U/1
THE DURAN
Orban, Brussels is creating an Orwellian world.
Scholz falls out of favour with German voters.
Scholz coalition shows signs of fracture.
Orban, Brussels is creating an Orwellian world.
DANNY HAIPHONG
Brian Berletic: Russia is WINNING the War of Attrition as NATO Fails in Ukraine, Plus Q+A.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
CARNAGE IN GAZA - MOATS with George Galloway Ep 282.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Palestine: deaths increase as Israeli aggression continues.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Russian offensive on Avdeevka and Kupyansk, Middle East under threat of regional war, World economy.
LEVAN GUDAGZE - OPINION
Severe escalation in the Middle East, Ukrainian crisis - Russian offensive, Q&A.
EMIL COSMAN
Zelensky's replacement. Failed counteroffensive, corruption, incompetence. Ex-Zelensky aide calls for...
BBC journalists assaulted at gun point by Israeli Police in Tel Aviv. Israel-style Press-Freedom.
Weasel Sen. Lindsey Graham THREATENS to destroy Iran in OUR name: "Iran, WE're coming for you."
Nuclear Pakistan to intervene in Gaza? Pakistani party pledges to join Hamas "on the frontlines."
US military will enter Israel under the "do the right thing" banner. Same idiotic narrative.
THEY lost CONTROL. Tens of Thousands march around the World in support of Palestinians.
DDGEOPOLITICS
MARK SLEBODA on Israeli-Palestinian Developments, Russia's Winter Campaign and more.
BORZZIKMAN
BIBI Urged Israeli Mercenaries To Return From Ukraine! A Big War In The Middle East Is Inevitable!
RICHARD MEDHURST
"European Democracy": France and Germany Ban Pro-Palestine Marches.
Journalist YELLED At by Israeli PM, Says Gaza Babies "Are My Enemy".
Debunking Israel’s Myth About Hamas and the 40 Babies.
Palestinian Holocaust: Israel Orders Evacuation of Gaza Then Kills Fleeing Civilians.
Israel’s “Right to Defend Itself”: An Excuse to Commit War Crimes.
REDACTED
Egypt HIGH ALERT as this is about to get much worse & Putin knows it.
DDGEOPOLITICS
LIVE from a Country Under Siege!
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
All Out for Palestine Rally.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Permission to Commit Genocide.
CGTN EUROPE
John Hobson accuses West of wanting to demonize Belt and Road Initiative.
TFIGlobal
NATO Squarely Accuses Russia for the Israeli Chaos.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin Blasts 'Nonsense' U.S.; Says War With 'Washington Would Be On A Different Level' | Watch:
'This Is What Awaits You': Hamas Dares Israel As Netanyahu Ready For Gaza Ground Offensive | Watch:
Hamas Chief Meets Iranian FM Amid War With Israel; Issues This Warning In Case Of Gaza Invasion.
'Ready For Jihad': Wanted Hamas Leader Addresses Rally In Pak Amid Israel-Palestine War | Watch:
Another Arab-Israel War? Israeli Troops Bomb Syria, Lebanon & Gaza After Attacks | Details:
KATIE HALPER
Israeli Activist REVEALS What The Media REFUSES To Tell You About Israel.
Israeli Teenager Who SURVIVED Hamas Attack DEMANDS Israel STOP Bombing Gaza.
NOVARA MEDIA
Thousands Turn Out For Pro-Palestinian Protests.
THE PRINT
Hamas attack on Israel is an intelligence failure on the scale of Pearl Harbour.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
They’re Cutting Off Water To 1 Million Children In Gaza – Norman Finkelstein.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
50 Israeli soldiers with transport helicopter blown up by Palestinian fighters.
HISTORY LEGENDS
Military Lessons From the Israel-Hamas War.
TELESUR ENGLISH
People can hardly get water, food, bread.
The situation is deteriorating in the Gaza Strip.
Israelis continue escalation of violence in Palestine.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
He just REVEALED their REAL PLAN.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Dilemmas of Humanity Day 1: Building Socialism.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Antony Blinken: Unhinged Israel | Jim Jordan - Speaker to be | Negro Servants: Cory Booker.
MICHAEL ROSSI
Putin Give Press Conference in Bishkek on Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Central Asia - English Subs.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS CHANNEL
President Xi Jinping A "True World Leader": Putin.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
Israel's Move from USD to RMB Sends shockwaves. Prelude to New Era?
CGTN
Beyond roads and bridges: BRI is about the people.
How China shares development dividend with world through BRI.
PAN AFRICAN TELEVISION
Grace Naledi Mandisa Pando speech at Dilemmas of Humanity Conference 14/10/2023.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Mali's Foreign Minister Reveals They Reported France To UN Security Council For Sponsoring Terrorism.
PAN AFRICAN TELEVISION
Unveiling Palestine: Debunking Myths and Exposing Realities with Dr. Gamal Nasser Adam.
ACTIVISM MUNICH
Israel-Gaza-Krieg: Dringende Notwendigkeit rationaler - nicht emotionaler - Reaktionen.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
ANDREI MARTYANOV
Switching From Ukraine to Israel
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 15th October 2023:
Ex-Zelensky aide calls for new government in Ukraine.
Kiev has failed to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and needs a change of leadership, Aleksey Arestovich wrote on Telegram.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive has failed, its troops have built no defensive lines, and President Vladimir Zelensky has allowed corruption and incompetence to flourish, former adviser Aleksey Arestovich said on Saturday. New elections are the only way out of the impasse, he argued.
Zelensky’s focus on defending the Donbass city of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine) at all costs earlier this year drained men and resources that could have been sent south to participate in the summer counteroffensive against Russian forces, Arestovich wrote on Telegram.
With weather conditions deteriorating, the counteroffensive has now halted. The four-month operation cost Ukraine 90,000 men (according to Russian figures), and resulted in extremely minimal territorial gains for Kiev. Ukraine has achieved “nothing,” and Russian troops have switched to offensive operations along the entire front, Moscow’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, told the UN Security Council on Friday.
With the roles reversed and the Ukrainians now defending, Arestovich noted that the Ukrainian military has not constructed defensive fortifications like those set up by Russia before the Ukrainian offensive.
“Such structures would dramatically increase the combat stability of our troops, inflict even greater losses on the Russians, reduce the load on our forces and allow some of them to be redirected to offensive areas,” he wrote, adding that “this was not done, and this is our second strategic mistake.”
Away from the battlefield, Arestovich said Russia is increasing its defense spending, stepping up the production of armaments, and reaching out to its friends and partners in the Global South.
Ukraine, by contrast, “suppresses business, civil liberties and political competitors, quarrels with neighbors and key partners, and encourages corruption.”
“Our leadership, in my assessment, exhausted the limits of its competence a long time ago,” he wrote. In order to pull the country out of its current “dead end,” he urged Zelensky’s government to abandon its earlier decision not to hold elections until after the conflict, and accept that its goal of retaking Crimea and restoring Ukraine’s 1991 borders will not happen, despite the “blood, sweat, and tears” of the Ukrainian people.
READ MORE: Israel may elbow Ukraine out of US weapon queue – CNN
Although Arestovich was initially optimistic about the counteroffensive’s chances of success, he has offered a series of increasingly grim predictions of the country’s future in recent months. He predicted in August that an invasion of Crimea would cost 200,000 Ukrainian lives, and forecast in September that the conflict could drag on until 2035.
Ex-Zelensky aide calls for new government in Ukraine.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
The Fall | "The Drowned Man" Will Drown His Insane Hopes In Dnieper. Military Summary For 2023.10.15
The Russians Achieved Success At Avdiivka, Synkivka, Verbove, Pryiutne. Military Summary 2023.10.15
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian General Offensive Continues.
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: Russia's COUNTERATTACK Near Verbove; Minor Gains Near Pryyutne.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Russia Launches Offensives Across The Whole Front.
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.
First posted 16th July 2015.
UKRAINE : WHO HAS BEEN KILLING THE CIVILIANS?
There is controversy in Ukraine over the civilians who have died since Kiev sent its troops to the southeast of Ukraine, the region known as the Donbass. Who killed all these men, women and children?
1/ A question. Let's say for argument's sake that Ukraine shelling is meant to hit 'military' targets. How are these decided upon?
2/ Always remembering that so many of their shells hit apartment blocks, residential homes. hospitals, schools and even orphanages.
3/ Now I know satellites are possible for pinpoint accuracy. But is it really feasible for the rebels to set up artillery in apartments for instance?
4/ Knowing something now of the sheer incompetence of the Ukraine "army" how much faith could we put in the concept of pinpoint accuracy?
5/ Ukraine no doubt will rattle on about 'human shields'. It is a very common lie in such situations. Ask @BowenBBC Jeremy Bowen of his Gaza experience.
6/ Surely it must strain credibility when we see apartment block after apartment block shelled by Ukraine to think they know what they're doing
7/ Now, we know that Right Sector members & Svoboda Party supporters hate all 'Moskals' (as they call them) with a vengeance.
8/ They regard 'Moskals' as traitors to Ukraine, as Russians & they want to hurt them in ANY way, women, children, elderly, infirm, ANYONE.
9/ When Ukraine sent its "army" to the SE it included hastily enlisted members of Right Sector & Svoboda who were fighting on Maidan.
10/ These were the Maidan militia. We saw them. Ultra-violent. Intent on maiming or killing if at all possible. "Russians on knives!"
11/ Right, so you send these sadistic zealots who hate every 'Moskal' man, woman & child, elderly, it doesn't matter... total hate -to the SE
12/ Now, we know Ukraine command of its "army" is tenuous at best, in fact usually non-existent or composed of barely more than a phone call.
13/ So, can anyone be shocked or surprised when these total fanatics who hate ALL 'Moskals do everything possible to kill them?
14/ And I don't mean kill the rebels. The rebels are normally astounded they are left out of the equation altogether. No, they randomly target ANYWHERE and ANYONE
15/ A village, a town, or a city, is a VERY easy target. There you are in a field outside it. And there it is, visible above the trees. You need no coordinates.
16/ No coordinates required AT ALL. You have been told "they are all in it together", they are ALL rebels, ALL terrorists, all traitors.
17/ You have been told they are ALL traitors to Ukraine & that they ALL want to steal this part of Ukraine away and give it to Russia.
18/ But really you need no encouragement, you just point your mortars or Grads at the village, town or city and you fire blind.
19/ You totally couldn't care less who or what you hit, for aren’t they are all traitorous rebels who want to steal part of YOUR country?
20/ You aim for the village, town or city with no co-ordinates & any large building such as a hospital or school in plain sight will do.
21/ I believe THIS is the truth. Not boomerang bombs whereby the rebels shell & kill their own people who they are there to help and protect.
22// But westpress don't even think of the backstory to all this. They talk as if it's a complete mystery how homes, schools etc get hit.
23/ There is no way that words will EVER convey the misery which Kiev has brought down on the people of the southeast, of the Donbass.
24/ That a so-called free press can't add 2 and 2 to make 4 is not, I would say, a mystery. There is something more to this. It is the #USA.
25/ The #EU & the #USA hate & fear Russia. And also China. And Iran. And they fear the diminishing of their power via the BRICS.
26/ #US supplied front groups in Ukraine w/ billions over 20 years to destabilise it. It almost happened several times before they finally succeeded.
27/ The events which followed were partly about hiding this fact, partly the overall plan moved on re. Russia et al. Then the propaganda began…
28/ It is very, very sick what is happening in Ukraine. It will utterly disgust the dedicated viewer. It takes a strong stomach.
29/ The inevitable conclusion one comes to is that western leaders are utterly vile & totally cowed by the American imperative.
30/ Russia cannot play the innocent, no. But it is a damn sight more innocent than the evil-minded idiots & mental pygmies of the west.
31/ So that's my rant which started with a simple question. Who’s shelling who? Who Is Killing The Civilians?
32/ Final thought on my rant. We know the rebels are devastatingly accurate in targeting. I would posit we also know the Ukraine Neo-Nazis really don't care to.
