RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 09.07.2024
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.
*** PUTIN, XI, MODI, ORBAN ET AL: A GLOBAL COALITION FOR PEACE ***
“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.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
SHAMELESS WESTERN MEDIA IGNORED THIS:
Airstrike in Lugansk - 10 Year Anniversary.
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA INTEL ANALYST): Ukraine Children's Hospital NOT hit by Russian Missile.
The Heat: Russians Crossed Vovcha River, The Pokrovsk Front is Crumbling. Military Summary 2024.07.09
Kremlin responds to Kiev hospital attack allegations.
Russian forces do not target civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed.
Moscow has vehemently denied responsibility for the tragedy at the Okhmatdet children’s hospital in Kiev, after a missile hit the facility on Monday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has insisted that the incident was caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Peskov stressed that Russia “does not strike civilian targets” and that all strikes carried out by the Russian military are exclusively aimed at “critical infrastructure facilities and military targets that are somehow related to the regime’s military potential.”
Regarding Ukraine’s accusations that Moscow intentionally hit the hospital in Kiev, Peskov pointed to the official statement by the Russian Defense Ministry, which “absolutely rules out that there were strikes on any civilian targets. It states that we are talking about the fall of an anti-missile.”
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on Monday that it had conducted a large-scale attack using long-range high-precision weapons to strike Ukrainian military industry facilities and aviation bases. The attack was said to be in response to Kiev’s continued attempts to cause damage to Russian energy and economic facilities.
The ministry stated that all the intended targets were hit and rejected Kiev’s claims of Russian missiles striking civilian facilities as “absolutely untrue.”
“Numerous published photos and video footage from Kiev clearly confirm the fact of destruction due to the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile launched from an anti-aircraft missile system within the city,” the ministry said.
It also accused Kiev of attempting similar “hysterics” in the past, especially before large international summits, such as the NATO gathering in Washington that kicked off on Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry suggested that the incident at Okhmatdet is being used by the Ukrainian authorities to ensure continued funding and the continuation of the conflict.
Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, has also suggested that the hospital tragedy is seen by Kiev’s Western backers as a “perfect gift” to justify further escalation of the conflict and the continuation of hostilities.
The Western press is “whipping up hysterics” and hiding relevant facts about the tragedy, Antonov claimed, including Moscow’s assessment that the incident was caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile.
Pro-Kiev media outlets have claimed that the weapon that struck the hospital was a Russian air-launched Kh-101 cruise missile. However, others have argued that the projectile, which can apparently be seen in a video filmed from a distance by a witness, was probably an AIM120 fired by a NASAM missile system or an interceptor fired by the MIM-104 Patriot missile system. Western donors have provided Ukraine with this type of US-developed weapon.
Kremlin responds to Kiev hospital attack allegations.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: NATO Total Disarray, Missiles Pound Kiev, Ukr AD Collapses; Zelensky-Tusk No Fly Zone; Ukr Retreat.
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‘No topic is off limits’: Modi’s visit to Moscow explained.
As Indian and Russian leaders meet for the bilateral summit, they will discuss diversifying the relationship in line with national interests.
By Anil Trigunayat, a former Indian Ambassador to Jordan, Libya and Malta and a Distinguished Fellow with Vivekananda International Foundation, India
The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is set to visit Russia on Monday, the first bilateral visit of his new term in office. This is a relationship with an exceptionally well-oiled institutional historic matrix. Perhaps the quotient of trust is the highest of any bilateral relationship that Russia manages, despite the global churn of reanimated geopolitical contests, ongoing wars and other challenges globally that directly impact the two states.
Moscow and New Delhi also have frequent and frank consultations on China-related issues, increasingly more salient in the emerging global landscape, with Beijing’s ambitions becoming ever more evident.
More importantly, Russia is the chair of and will be hosting the BRICS+ Summit in true style, with over 200 meetings preceding it. So, both leaders have full plates and a large menu remains open to them this week.
Modi has just been to a G7 summit in Italy where he met with many leaders, including Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, who considers that New Delhi could play a much bigger role in resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict, given the special relationship the two countries and leaders have.
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Modi has advocated respect for the UN charter, recourse to dialogue and diplomacy, and maintains that this is "not an era of war” and peace must be sincerely pursued. Ideals and morals even in foreign policy provide a baseline and an anchor for closing gaps and resolving crises. However, at the ‘peace summit’ in Switzerland India was represented by a senior diplomat who declined to endorse that gathering’s communique, because it wouldn’t have led to peace but to a more divisive outcome. The absence of Russia from the Switzerland conference made it a non-starter but India’s support for a cessation of war and a reliance on diplomacy remained firm.
Since New Delhi aims to act as a bridge between and West and East as well as between North and South, it’s likely that Modi might act as a trusted interlocutor, especially after having assessed the mood of the G7 leaders. But it takes two to tango.
There is no doubt that the Moscow-Kiev conflict and the fighting in the Middle East, as well as lingering impacts of the pandemic, have caused major problems and crises for the ‘Global South’ whose interests and welfare have been an integral part of India’s foreign-policy spectrum. With its philosophy of ‘Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam’ (The whole world is one family) and its desired role as a Vishwa Bandhu (Friend of the whole world), New Delhi has to find ways to reduce the multiple crises that adversely impact on her national interests as well as on three quarters of the disadvantaged global community of least-developed and developing countries.
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Modi’s two-day visit was aptly described by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as ‘very important’ and, given the very trusting nature of the relationship, no topic will be off limits for discussion between the two leaders.
President Putin has often praised Prime Minister Modi and India’s growth story, as well as New Delhi’s strategic autonomy.
India and Russia have been struggling for decades to enhance their bilateral trade beyond $10 billion, but New Delhi’s decision to buy more Russian crude took this to an unprecedented $65 billion last year. Moscow has emerged as a major supplier. Of course, Indian public- and private-sector companies have been eyeing the Russian hydrocarbons sector and have successfully entered some areas including 20% stakes in Rosneft in 2002, which turned out to be mutually beneficial. Russian pipelines to India need to be seriously explored and taken forward with sincerity on both sides, as Moscow hones up its ‘Act Asia’ and Eurasia policies and India moves ahead with its multi-alignment policy, each nation aspiring to strategic autonomy.
The Arctic is a critical zone of geo-economic contest where Moscow is a major player and New Delhi has devised an Arctic Policy. Russia also supports and subscribes to the ‘Make In India’ self-sufficiency initiative, and to the transfer of sensitive technologies in defense, security, space, cyber and civil nuclear domain, a policy that should strengthen the countries’ intensive engagement.
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Diversification of relationships and interests is guided by each country for its strategic vision, while a realistic understanding of limitations between even the closest friends is essential for a mutually collaborative matrix.
Russia-India defense agreements, as well as the nearly agreed Reciprocal Exchange Logistics Agreement (RELOS) in the maritime domain will see similar engagements with other strategic partners remain stand-alone, even though sometimes this can be complicated. It can only be overcome through trust and realistic assessment by strategic partners across the geopolitical divide.
Modi’s last visit to Russia was as Chief Guest at the 2019 Far Eastern Economic Summit. The Far East has acquired a pivotal importance for the relationship, with newer opportunities. Slow movement here could be costly and speeding up would yield dividends, while a $1-billion Line of Credit by Indian businesses could be a trigger. Moscow for its own strategic reasons is hoping Indians get in there across the opportunity spectrum, including investments and manpower. However, worker welfare remains a concern, given recent reports of some being deployed to warzones, which Modi and Putin will be discussing.
Connectivity, especially through thorough revamping of the International North South Transport (INSTC) Corridor as well as the Chennai-Vladivostok corridor in the context of the Arctic, will have to be beefed up with practical and credible measures by both sides. India’s recent long-term agreement to manage Iran’s Chabahar port is consequential, both for an Afghanistan-Central Asia strategic connectivity and for the INSTC, despite threats of US secondary sanctions.
In addition, India may open new consulates to further enhance its outreach in Russia – the largest country in the world. All relationships spawn concerns and issues to be dealt with in a straightforward manner that takes into account the realistic expectations of each side. The apparent strong trust between the two leaders and their countries is expected to ensure that.
‘No topic is off limits’: Modi’s visit to Moscow explained.
RACHEL BLEVINS - MARK SLEBODA: Russia Destroys Kiev's HIMARS + Responds to Claims of 'Children's Hospital Attack'.
Russia destroys Kiev military plant, Ukrainian air defenses hit hospital.
LEVAN GUDADZE: Missile strikes on Ukraine - Controversy. Putin - Modi meeting, 186,000 Palestinians killed, Georgia.
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA INTEL ANALYST): Ukraine Children's Hospital NOT hit by Russian Missile.
DANIEL DAVIS: NATO’s 75th Anniversary: Sabotaging Our Future.
Putin Finds And Bombs Exact HIMARS Launchers Used In Crime Beach Attack: Russia's Ukraine War Claim.
PM Modi Lays Wreath On ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’ In Moscow, Russia.
PM Modi Speech: PM Narendra Modi Address Indian Community in Moscow | Russia | Vladimir Putin.
Indian PM Narendra Modi Meets President Putin and Is Awarded 'Order of Friendship'.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS: The Summit of the Future.
PEPE ESCOBAR: SCO Summit a Geopolitical Game Changer.
AMBASSADOR CHAS FREEMAN: 75 Years of NATO War.
MATT HOH: Why Reject Empire.
LT. COL. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: The Fake Structures of Peace.
SCOTT RITTER: US Thrives on Continuous Conflict.
Gigantic damage to a large Ukrainian logistics convoy in Sumy.
Night hunt for Himars and NATO foreign specialists in Kherson.
Russia Drops ODAB 1500 Bomb.
Russian Bombing Wipes Out U.S. Weapons In Kherson; Putin's Men 'Kill Foreign Military Specialists'.
The Reasons Behind Abrams Tank Losses in Ukraine.
Proof Of Zelensky’s Desperation? Putin’s Men Foil Ukraine’s Bid To Hijack Russian Strategic Bomber.
BORZZIKMAN: KINZHAL Hypersonic Missiles Wiped Out US Combat Crew Along With PATRIOT System┃AFU Lost 15th ABRAMS.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-DPRK
REDACTED: EX-CIA "Israel targeted and KILLED most of the Israeli Civilians on Oct. 7th, NOT HAMAS".
KATIE HALPERN: Israel Is BATTLE TESTING Weapons On Palestinian Children.
Gaza Ceasefire: Netanyahu Creating Obstacles, Says Hamas.
French elections signal Israel's war flatlining w/ Greg Stoker.
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
Orban Again Rattles NATO With ‘Peace Mission’, Meets Xi After Putin; Anti-West Alliance Brewing?
RICHARD MEDHURST: Keir Starmer’s Role In Assange Embassy Siege ft. Stefania Maurizi.
MOSCOW PHOTOGRAPHER: I Went to Moscow Against State Dept. Advice - Here's Why.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
REDACTED: BRICS Bombshell! They just scored a KNOCKOUT blow to the US Dollar.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
LIU SIVAYA: LA VERDADERA BATALLA AÚN ESTÁ POR LLEGAR: NO, LE PEN NO HA PERDIDO NADA, MÁS BIEN TODO LO CONTRARIO.
MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
The Heat: Russians Crossed Vovcha River, The Pokrovsk Front is Crumbling. Military Summary 2024.07.09
A Huge Convoy Was Destroyed In Sumy: Dagger Fight In The Hlyboke, Military Summary For 2024.07.09
RUSSIAN FORCES BREAKING OUT!!! - Ukraine War Frontline Changes Report.
Continuous Russian Advances Towards Vovcha River.
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.
OFFICIAL WESTERN LIES CLEARLY SEEK ORWELL’S FOREVER WAR
It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth but don’t official spokespersons and mainstream media commentators, who are supposed to be accurately informing the public, have some duty to attempt an approximation of the facts at the very least?
In every war ever fought the percentage of civilian casualties has always been high. The Americans call such casualties ‘collateral damage’, a term most find extremely cold and unfeeling. Few wars can be called good or righteous wars and naturally all wars should be avoided where possible. Where they do occur however, civilians are always casualties in one way or another. But are they actively targeted?
Yesterday the official spokesperson of the United States, Matthew Miller made an assertion that is heard very often, that Russia is actively targeting the civilian population of Ukraine. These are his exact words:
“...Russia’s war machine that is targeting and killing innocent civilians in Ukraine…”
Independent expert opinion is however that Russia has been extremely scrupulous throughout its campaign, avoiding impact on the civilian population to an extraordinary degree. In comparison with the series of regime change wars the USA and its allies have waged over the last several decades this avoidance of causing civilian casualties is striking. What then is going on here that can account for this disparity of views?
In wartime it is quite normal for the demonisation of the opponent to take place, my question however is should a service to journalists such as the daily Q&A by the official spokesperson of the USA be used for this to take place? The impact of such a repeated assertion when channeled through the mass media will inevitably be significant. Hearing or reading a distortion of reality one or twice may well be ignored as an unproven assertion. But when such an assertion and many other highly negative assertions are repeated on an almost daily basis for a period extending to years a subconscious conditioning effect on the general public is inevitable.
When yesterday morning external damage was done to a children’s hospital in the Ukrainian capital those supporting the Ukrainian side in the conflict were quick to point at Russia. Terms such as ‘evil’, ‘monsters’ and ‘unhuman’ were used. As the day wore on however and talk of the hospital being hit and more accurate information showed the explosion had been nearby and had not impacted the hospital directly the situation began to become clearer. By evening images were appearing taken at the scene which showed that a Ukrainian air defence missile (of western origin) had been the cause of the explosion damaging the hospital.
The facts which emerged concerning the explosion did not modify the assertions of Russian guilt however and this has been a constant over the last two plus years of the conflict. From the several Ukrainian missile attacks which hit groups of civilians at a train station in Kramatorsk to the strike in another Ukrainian town while Tony Blinken arrived for a visit, to the Ukrainian-caused explosion at the Mariuopol’s premier theatre to the massacre at Bucha and in so many other instances from 2014 onward Russia gets accused when the facts, when examined, reveal otherwise.
How many look back and change their opinion on such events when the facts are revealed weeks or months after they occur? How many western news agencies bother to report such revelations when they occur? Take the mass shootings that killed so many on Kiev’s Maidan Square in 2014 for instance which more or less brought the government and its president down? At the time every western news outlet and West-oriented activist blamed that government and president. However, the official inquiry into those mass shootings found that this was not the case and that the Maidan “protesters” had occupation of the site from which the shooting took place. In short it was a false flag event designed to discredit the Ukrainian authorities of the time.
The reaction of the vast majority, those who are likely not to involve themselves in a detailed examination of events is likely to be a strong one. Then presented with a news item designed to push certain emotional buttons, will have little resistance to the effect planned. This is especially true when children are involved. This was seen to greatest effect during the long conflict in Syria where an organisation named ‘The White Helmets’ were clearly set up to generate the material required to effect a western political need to generate support for the war. Fearful children, injured children, children under threat are the most potent propaganda tools in the West where a highly pre-sensitised population can easily be made to react in the way desired by those seeking support.
Noam Chomsky, along with Edward S. Herman, wrote an entire book on this general subject by the name of ‘Manufacturing Consent’.
‘Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion", by means of the propaganda model of communication. The title refers to consent of the governed, and derives from the phrase "the manufacture of consent" used by Walter Lippmann in Public Opinion (1922). The book was honored with the Orwell Award.
A 2002 revision takes account of developments such as the fall of the Soviet Union. A 2009 interview with the authors notes the effects of the internet on the propaganda model.’
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I hope that you would agree that seeking to generate lust for ever more war based on falsehoods is surely immoral. In the normal course of things all wars end sooner or later in some form of agreement between the two sides to once again establish reasonably normal relations and at the very least to bring an end to war between them. When there is no intent to do so, when false claims demonising your adversary seeks only to prolong a war and therefore cause ever more death and destruction is this not clearly both an immoral and unethical act denoting cynical purposes having precisely nothing to do with right and wrong? I would contend that it instead very clearly characterises the motivation described by George Orwell below.
