RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.03.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.03.2024
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.
*** IS RUSSIA ABOUT TO INITIATE WAR-WINNING OFFENSIVE? ***
“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
TERROR in Moscow.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Ukr Disasters Pile Up: Rus Missile Strike, Power Cuts, FAB-3000, Rus Advance, Kremlin Floats Ukr End.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: FAB-3000. Russia begins war. Macron, Ukraine will collapse.
MASSIVE Strikes Across Ukraine | Peskov Calls The "SMO" A War | Russian Offensive Coming.
The Gloves Are Off: Russia's Massive Response to the Shelling of Russian Border Towns.
'State Of War': Russia's Alarming Warning For West As NATO Leader Fears 'Ukraine's Could Fall Soon'.
Complete Blackout | Breakthrough At Chasiv Yar. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.03.22
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS: West Admits Russian Glide Bombs Might Actually be "Game-Changer".
Putin Pounds Ukraine With 90 Missiles, 60 Shahed Drones; Blaze At Largest Dam, Blackout In Kharkiv.
Win After Win For Putin; Russia 'Captures' Tonenkoe Weeks After Kiev Took Control.
Putin addresses nation after election
The Russian president has vowed to meet citizens’ expectations after receiving over 87% of the vote.
The presidential election in Russia has shown that the country remains one big family, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday after securing his fifth term in office. He also thanked the voters for their unprecedented support and vowed to meet their expectations.
Earlier in the day, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) officially declared Putin president-elect, announcing that he had received over 87% of the vote. Last weekend’s election recorded a record-high voter turnout that exceeded 77%. Putin is scheduled to be inaugurated on May 7 for another six years in office.
In his address to the nation, Putin stressed the crucial role of the presidential race in charting the country’s course for the future, as it remains locked in the Ukraine conflict and a stand-off with the West.
He thanked all Russians who went to the polling stations, regardless of what candidate they voted for. He added that the election showed that Russia is “one big and tightly-knit family” marching “along the selected historic path” and looking forward to the future.
Putin also thanked voters for the trust they placed in him. “For me, this is more important than a formal victory in the election. This [shows] support for the political and economic course of our country, of our overall results,” he said, remarking that while those achievements could be even greater, they are already making Russia a stronger and more independent nation.
He further vowed that he would do his best to meet public expectations. “I understand that this level of trust also increases [my] responsibility to Russia, for the well-being of her people, and requires even greater commitment and efficiency from me personally and from our entire team.”
The president praised local election authorities for their excellent work. He made specific mention of officials in the former Ukrainian territories that overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in the autumn 2022, saying that they had demonstrated considerable courage.
During the three-day vote, polling stations in the frontline regions often came under Ukrainian attack. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday that those strikes were deliberate and targeted areas where only civilians were present. Both Kiev’s military and its Western advisers were well aware of this reality, he stated.
Putin addresses nation after election.
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER: How the West Provoked Russia.
COLONEL LARRY WILKERSON: NATO Digging Deeper its Own Grave as War in Ukraine Has Been Lost.
The REAL REASON The West Is Doomed | Dr. Michael Brenner on Ukraine and Gaza.
DMITRY ORLOV: Putin's Landslide Victory as NATO is Losing.
SCOTT RITTER: Russia Beats NATO; Israel Beating Itself.
PATRICK LANCASTER: Russian Frontline Kamikaze Drones Attack Ukraine.
Russian Missile Attack on Kiev / Jake Sullivan meets w/ Zelensky.
Russia has strengthened its air defense system! Shoigu, Ukraine.
Big 'Embarrassment' For Biden As Middle Eastern Ally Dials 'Rival' Putin | Full Detail.
Macron Still Threatening to Send His Puny Post-Colonial Army to Ukraine.
BORZZIKMAN: NATO's Losses Are Shocking: Russia Wiped Out High-Class Polish Engineers In STAROKONSTANTINOV.
Russia Destroys M1 Abrams Tank for the Second Time in Ukraine.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW: RFK Jr. Makes CNBC Heads Explode Over Nordstream Truth.
The Belgorod Shame: Ukraine’s true Face.
NATO tells Ukraine to keep drafting new troops
There is no getting around the manpower shortage, Admiral Rob Bauer has said.
Kiev needs to mobilize more people to make up for battlefield losses, Admiral Rob Bauer, the chair of the NATO Military Committee, said on Thursday.
Bauer, who headed the Dutch armed forces between 2017 and 2021, made the comments at the opening session of the Kiev Security Forum, organized annually by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk.
“You don’t only need new grenades and tanks and armored vehicles, you also need, unfortunately, new soldiers, because soldiers die and soldiers get wounded. And then you talk about mobilization, then you talk about conscription,” Bauer told the audience.
While the West can provide money and ammunition, the Ukrainians have to provide the manpower, because their country is at stake, he added.
The government in Kiev has officially admitted to only 31,000 troops killed in action over the past two years, though unofficial estimates are at least an order of magnitude higher. According to Western media reports, Kiev’s frontline units were operating at one-third strength as of early last month.
There was talk in Kiev in December about the need for 500,000 new conscripts to replenish frontline brigades and form new ones. However, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky later said there was no need to mobilize quite so many. The Ukrainian parliament has yet to vote on amendments to the mobilization law, which have sparked intense debate.
Ukraine has expended much of its weapons and ammunition as well, becoming almost entirely reliant on the US and its allies for logistics. Speaking on Thursday, Bauer admitted that the NATO response to the Ukraine conflict has been lacking in terms of production of weapons and ammunition. He advocated the same kind of approach as was employed during the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccine production, arguing that all of society would need to make sacrifices.
“Pessimists don’t win wars,” Bauer said. “And if you look at the facts: there is every reason to be confident in Ukraine’s ability to achieve success.”
Just a short while later, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the capture of Tonenkoye, a village in Donbass to which the Ukrainian forces routed from Avdeevka in February had attempted to fall back. Failed counterattacks have cost Kiev’s forces up to 400 men a day, as well as Western-supplied armor, such as American-made Abrams tanks, the Russian military said.
NATO tells Ukraine to keep drafting new troops.
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
BBC directors questioned over the BBC’s impartiality during its coverage of ICJ.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS: Genocide By Famine: Israel and US Starve Gaza While the World Watches.
THE DURAN: Haiti, facts and fiction w/ Dan Cohen and Kim Ives.
Haiti Under Siege: The Lies About Haiti “Gangs”.
ISRAEL-PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-DPRK-TAIWAN
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS: Genocide By Famine: Israel and US Starve Gaza While the World Watches.
RICHARD MEDHURST: BREAKING: Shocking Israeli Drone Footage Leaked, Yemen Deal with Russia-China & More.
GLENN GREENWALD: Biden Rolls Over As Netanyahu Defies Rafah “Red Line”.
🔴 Is the US Divorcing Benjamin Netanyahu? | Syriana Analysis w/ Alastair Crooke
Israel's Rafah Operation on Hold.
The Israeli army issues evacuation orders for everyone inside Al-Shifa Hospital.
Israeli General ADMITS War OVER Without US Weapons.
The strength and agony of Gaza’s mothers.
Israel Killed My Mother.
How Israel tested, packaged & exported its occupation | Antony Loewenstein.
US Submit Draft Resolution to United Nations Over Gaza.
USA
US Happiness PLUMMETS As Youths Say American Dream DEAD.
We are watching America COLLAPSE in real time.
Irish Americans ABANDON BIDEN, PROTEST on St. Patrick's Day.
DOJ Considering A PLEA DEAL For WikiLeaks Founder: Report.
Aaron Bushnell and the Pentagon's 'witch hunt' w/ Ken Klippenstein.
From Debt to Hyperinflation: More Banks to Collapse As System Implodes, 'They Need a Crisis' – Zang.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
Nigeria Wants to Join BRICS?
The truth about China's economy: Debunking Western media myths.
China's First Homegrown Hydrogen-Powered Urban Train Completes Test.
AFRICA
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS: Genocide By Famine: Israel and US Starve Gaza While the World Watches.
Niger’s Rebellion Against the United States and France Explained.
Africa United | Julius Malema Shares Vision Of An Africa Without Borders.
Russia doubles oil exports to Africa – Lavrov
Moscow is nevertheless not in competition with other top oil-producing and exporting nations, the foreign minister says.
Moscow has increased exports of petroleum products to African countries in recent years, despite Western sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Lavrov made the statement in an interview for a documentary project on oil that was published on the Foreign Ministry’s website on Thursday.
“Take Africa. We have doubled the export of petroleum products there over the past year and a half,” he said in response to a question about whether Russia is beginning to compete with other countries, particularly Iran, in the oil market.
The diplomat said there is “no fear” about Iran having “restored its legal rights” to trade oil and invest in economic development. Tehran produced 2.99 million barrels of oil per day in 2023, 440,000 more than in the previous year, according to the International Energy Agency (EIA).
“Within the framework of OPEC+, of which both Iran and Russia are members, there is a clear understanding of how to negotiate and seek compromises. This scheme has been working for many years. No one is at a loss, no one is offended,” Lavrov added.
Russia sharply increased its energy exports to Asia and Africa last year after the EU, which accounted for more than 60% of Moscow’s energy exports prior to the Ukraine conflict, stopped accepting the country’s oil transported by sea. China and India have emerged as major buyers of Russian crude after Moscow redirected its cargoes from Europe to the east in response to Western sanctions.
READ MORE: African country’s flag helping Russia skirt sanctions – Bloomberg
Last July, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov estimated that Moscow would supply approximately 20 million tons of oil and petroleum products to African countries by the end of 2023.
Earlier this year, Reuters reported that Ghana, Libya, Tunisia, and Togo all posted more than 100% annual growth in Russian oil imports in 2023. Morocco, Senegal, and Nigeria – the last of these being one of Africa’s top oil producers and exporters – all saw significant increases in Russian oil imports last year, according to the news agency, citing Kpler data.
Russia doubles oil exports to Africa – Lavrov.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
LIU SIVAYA: EL PLAN REAL DE LA OTAN QUE UCRANIA NO SE ESPERA PARA NADA (y que debería preocuparla).
MAPPING CHANNELS
The Bloom | Russia's Devastating Blows | A Huge Operation Has Begun | Russia Is At War. MS 2024.3.22
Complete Blackout | Breakthrough At Chasiv Yar. Military Summary And Analysis For 2024.03.22
RUAF Coordinated Offensive To Bypass Ukrainian Fortifications.
[ SITREP ] RUSSIA CLAIM TONENKE CAPTURED (Avdiivka Front); Russia expanding offensive operations.
RUAF Capture Tonenke | Russian Armed Forces Take 3 Times LESS Casualties Than Last Year.
Массированный Ракетный Удар По Киеву | ВС РФ Взяли Тоненькое | Военные Сводки И Анализ За 21.03.2024
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.
THE WEST & UKRAINE: DOUBLING DOWN TOWARD ARMAGEDDON
It must be clear to everyone by now that we live on a planet heading toward global catastrophe. What possible factors are driving western political/media classes irresponsibly toward such an outcome?
There appears to be no limit to the degree to which western leaders will risk the lives of every man, woman and child on the planet for the sake of their ambitions in Ukraine.
At each escalatory step forward the chances of a nuclear conflict with Russia increase, yet this prospect does not appear to influence the thinking of western leaders in any way. Thus we stand on a precipice unparalleled since the height of the Cold War where at least some diplomacy mitigated the risk. In these dark times all efforts regarding diplomacy have been long abandoned by the western powers. This derogation of political duties puts every one of us at risk.
War and ever more war is the answer to all those who call for peace through negotiations. As the puppet of the western powers Zelensky obeys the command to avoid negotiations with Russia at all costs, even to the extent of having a law passed banning them. We have never before been on such a steep slope to catastrophe as we are now. Madness reigns across the entire panoply of the western political superstructure. Group thought has replaced all semblance of rationality within a war mode mentality that drives each western leader to forego any perception of reality, totally blinded as they are by dogma.
The delivery of statements making a bad situation even worse arrive daily through the creation of ever more divisive soundbytes that make dialogue between the sides ever more unlikely. Accusations against those they regard as ‘the enemy’, are constantly made in the hope of maintaining the support of their populations while making the possibility of a resolution to the war they are waging impossible. This mindless drive forward cannot but lead to the day when the cumulative anger and misunderstanding, along with the hatred developed through ever-increased losses brings about the final showdown threatening extinction of the entire human race.
What could have caused the heedless irresponsibility now displayed by virtually every western leader? What possible factors could generate such an abandonment of responsibility? Is there some desperate method to all this madness? Surely the genesis of the insanity being displayed across the West is of such a degree that there can only be a few candidates to explain it. They must be in plain sight, no? How could they remain hidden considering the obviously unlimited degree to which a “solution” is being sought. What might these factors be?
1. The Fall of the West & Rise of the East
We can see quite clearly from the many statements and indeed policies of western leaders in recent decades that a primary concern for them is the economic rise of nations not bound within their orbit of control. Some of these nations have been, until recently, subject to successful manipulation by the West, others have successfully avoided such manipulation. The trend is clear, toward independence from western influence and control and toward the building of regional power centres that can successfully resist the power the West has previously enjoyed. Quite clearly the desire of the West to maintain its dominance over such states could provide a powerful motivation to interfere with this process.
2. The Continuing After-Effects of 9/11
9/11 and the western reaction to the events of that day relate directly to the concerns in 1. above. 9/11 was a massive blow to the power, prestige and seeming invulnerability of the West in general. It broke the myth of supremacy, of unquestioned power and therefore too, of the wielding of unrivalled influence maintained by the West during living memory. The events of that day showed that the great power the USA and its allies wielded had been successfully challenged by the use of violence, the use of which the USA and its allies had successfully wielded against those it itself sought to overthrow. The response to 9/11 by western leaders, to reassert their dominance and manipulative control once again also provides a powerful and continuing motivation for its actions now.
3. The Need of the West Powers to Establish Permanent Control through Surveillance
Again related to 1. And 2. above, this factor represents a powerful motivating force driving current events. In the days after 9/11 the response determined upon was quite clear. a) To eliminate all entities who could possibly present a future 9/11-type threat. We have seen the regime change operations that were part of this goal from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya and Syria with quite obvious plans for others such as Iran. We can safely add a number of others and most certainly Russia and China. On accomplishing the goal of eliminating and replacing all of these a universal surveillance system is intended to insure no future breakout from a West-controlled enclosed system designed to sustain western control, dominance and global hegemony for all time to come.
These three factors in combination have the required level of importance to western political elites and their compliant mass media to explain the relentless and apparently limitless push forward we see occurring now. If you can conceive of any factors you feel have greater power to motivate those driving us forward, ever closer to the potentially cataclysmic outcome, please describe them in the comment section below.
Will the madness now being generated constantly by the West finally be recognised for what it is, braindead irresponsibility fed by a degree of hubris, ambition, mindlessness and irresponsibility previously unknown in even the darkest times of the recent past? Or will the leadership of the West plough on ever more mindlessly to the final days of us all, unheeding of the vast dangers they usher us toward? Knowing the stakes and the potential outcome due to all factors involved we must all surely choose which side of the divide to stand on, that of a multipolar world where power is shared and in balance, or toward a prison planet where all power is held by one region of the world alone. And all the while cognisant that the struggle now ongoing could very well mean the end of us all.
