RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 28.05.2023
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.
*** IS UKRAINE’S LONG PROMISED OFFENSIVE ABOUT TO START? ***
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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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THE DURAN
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Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 28th May 2023:
Сounteroffensive could start at any moment – Ukrainian official.
The upcoming assault is a “historic opportunity” that Kiev “cannot lose,” the head of national security told the BBC.
Ukrainian forces are “ready” to launch their much-touted counteroffensive, the head of the National Security and Defense Council told the BBC in an interview on Saturday. Aleksey Danilov said the military top brass are now waiting for the right moment to launch the attack.
“It could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week,” Danilov answered when pressed about a potential start of the counteroffensive, which Kiev has been talking about for months.
A major assault was initially expected to start in spring or even late winter, but Kiev repeatedly postponed it, citing adverse weather conditions and the need to obtain all necessary weapons and equipment from western backers.
Danilov said it would have been “weird” for him to reveal the exact date, as “that cannot be done.” He described the planned attack as a “historic opportunity” that his nation “cannot lose” if it wants to become a “big European country.”
“We understand that we have no right to make a mistake,” he added.
In April, The New York Times reported that Ukraine’s Western supporters might start to pressure Kiev into launching talks with Moscow should the much-anticipated offensive fail to yield any major gains.
Kiev has been sending mixed signals on the counteroffensive. Earlier this week, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s aide, Mikhail Podoliak, told Italy’s Rai TV channel that it “has been going on for several days”. However, on Thursday, another presidential advisor, Igor Zhovkva, contradicted that statement, saying Ukrainian forces were still preparing for the operation.
Danilov denied the offensive had already begun, claiming that Ukrainian strikes against Russian “control centers” and “military equipment” were just routine operations.
Danilov’s remarks came as Russia outlined its conditions for ending the conflict with Ukraine. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin told TASS on Saturday that Kiev should abandon the idea of joining NATO and the EU, guarantee the rights of minorities, and declare Russian a state language.
Ukraine must also recognize the “new territorial realities,” the high-ranking diplomat said, referring to four former Ukrainian territories that joined Russia following referendums in autumn 2022, as well as Crimea, which reunited with Russia in 2014 following another referendum.
However, Danilov stated earlier in May that there could be no peace talks “on Russia’s terms.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
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NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
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THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front Update [28 May 2023].
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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RYBAR UPDATE
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M MAPPING UPDATE
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HS MAPPING
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WEEB UNION UPDATE
Quick Update | Full Front Update 28/05/23.
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.
WATCH THE MACHINATIONS OF THE WEST IN THE FACE OF TOTAL DEFEAT IN UKRAINE
The harsh reality is that the elites of the western world are being comprehensively defeated by Russia on all counts. This over a Ukraine that hardly anyone across the western hemisphere gave a damn about until very recently. The reason it has become big news is as a direct result of the western powers using it to weaken Russia.
Ukraine is of no overwhelming strategic value to the West except as a means to plague and weaken Russia. However, rather than serve this purpose it is now acting as a net bringer of loss to the entire collective West who worked to push Russia into a corner from which it would explode out to resolve issues it had long sought to solve peacefully through negotiation.
The economic war that the western powers enacted to unleash a blight on Russia has not only been effectively countered by Russia it has as we can all see, blown back in western faces to such a degree that the very foundations of western societies are set to be severely shaken.
The collective west in effect has committed collective economic suicide over a nation that was of peripheral, if any value to it. The belief was however that in order to maintain their global domination in perpetuity western political elites needed to undermine those rising to take this status from them. Russia is only one of the targets and the latest. China is already being prepped to be the next.
That this deserves a major dose of humiliation for the western elites who devised this debacle must surely be clear. But of course we know from past experience that every tactic devised since the time of Machiavelli and before will be used to minimise any such humiliation. Face-saving narratives will be devised, agreed and sent out in multiple memo form to all and sundry within the matrix of western political and media elites.
One such narrative was expressed by the German political hierarchy via the Der Spiegel newspaper. This narrative wished us to believe that the German government’s reason for not providing certain items of weaponry to Ukraine was that it might have too much success using them. This narrative envisions Ukraine defeating the Russian forces in the Donbass and marching into Russia using Germans weapons. These qualms were however, after much outside pressure, assuaged and Germany did indeed send those weapons.
Other narratives will without doubt be devised to explain away the defeat of Ukraine in an attempt to disassociate western political elites from it. Naturally Russia will be verbally attacked with even greater venom at that point and with even less justification than before. All merely par for the course. The entire western world has been filled with a litany of lies for decades now. The new iteration of lies is likely to create a verbal dust storm designed to blind western populations to the fact that their own leaders have brought them to this abject failure.
Macron, as well as Scholz of Germany have been busy on this front. They both privately fear humiliation if things go on as they are… whereas Russia is in do danger whatsoever of suffering any humiliation at all. In fact Russia will emerge stronger and will find the number of its friends has only increased.
Macron and Merkel threw away the influence they had regarding the Minsk Agreements where Kiev promised to walk the path of peace and reconciliation. Macron, his predecessor and Merkel failed to put necessary pressure on Ukraine to live up to and honour its commitments. Not once did they attempt to apply the pressure desperately needed in this respect. Ukraine was allowed to continue on its path to war leaving Russia with no choice but to intervene. We now know this was by design. Germany and France were successfully duping a Russia anxious to maintain the peace in relation to Ukraine.
Now a reckoning for the West looms.
But they will squirm like hotplate roasted worms to avoid that reckoning.
Just watch.
