RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 21.12.2023
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.
*** WEST’S ‘WEAPONIZE-UKRAINE’ PLAN AGAINST RUSSIA CRUMBLING ***
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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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PATRICK LANCASTER
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DANNY HAIPHONG
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ACTIVISM MUNICH
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Articles from RT (Russia Today) & Sputnik International - 21st December 2023:
Ukraine losing 800 troops a day – ex-NATO officer.
Kiev’s manpower is “significantly worn out” as Russia’s “strategy of attrition” is taking effect, a former German Air Force Colonel has said.
Around 800 Ukrainian troops are being killed and wounded daily amid the conflict with Russia, retired German Air Force Colonel and prominent military analyst Ralph D. Thiele has claimed.
In an opinion piece for Focus magazine on Wednesday, Thiele, who used to serve in the personal staff of NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, claimed that Kiev needs to recruit more than 20,000 soldiers every month in order to replace its dead and injured. He did not reveal his sources or basis for his calculations, however.
Ukraine also requires additional personnel to be able to rotate its troops on the frontline, so that “exhausted soldiers” may recover and units may replenish their material supplies, he wrote.
According to Thiele, who now heads the Political-Military Society, EuroDefense (Germany) and StratByrd Consulting think tanks, “the highly motivated defense” and subsequent counteroffensive, which he described as “a thing of the past,” came at a “high price” for Ukraine.
Kiev’s manpower and hardware are “significantly worn out,” he said. “Western weapons systems are not miracle weapons and are wearing out,” the analyst added.
The worsening battlefield situation and decreasing Western support for Kiev are “eating away at the morale” of the Ukrainian troops, who “will have to save ammunition in a war of attrition and endure slaughter at the front without rest and without a greater sense of achievement,” Thiele stressed.
Russia has also lost “a large number of soldiers and huge amounts of material” during the conflict, but “it has much more of both than Ukraine,” he argued.
“Step by step, Russia’s superiority in the conflict with Ukraine is becoming more visible,” the analyst acknowledged. Moscow’s "strategy of attrition" is “taking effect” in terms of personnel, material, ammunition and morale, he said.
Thiele’s number of 800 Ukrainian soldiers being lost per day appears to be higher than the one announced by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu at the expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry’s Board on Tuesday. According to Shoigu, some 400,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded since the start of the fighting in late February 2022. This means that, according to Russian figures, Kiev’s daily losses stand at around 600 servicemen.
READ MORE: Russia has the initiative in Ukraine conflict – Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who chaired the meeting, stressed that “we can say with confidence that our troops have the initiative” on the frontline with Ukraine. “In essence, we are doing what we consider necessary, what we want. Wherever… commanders decide active defense is best, it takes place. And where it is needed, we improve our positions,” Putin explained.
Ukraine losing 800 troops a day – ex-NATO officer.
Top Russian general reveals details of Kiev's failed counteroffensive.
Ukraine thought its forces could blockade the city of Melitopol within 15 days, according to Valery Gerasimov.
Ukrainian military planners expected swift progress in their summer counteroffensive, which was to culminate in the so-called “land bridge to Crimea” being cut, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian general staff, said on Thursday. He added that the attempt was thwarted by Russian forces.
The senior official briefed foreign military attaches on various aspects of Russia's military strategy, including steps taken to prevent a Ukrainian counteroffensive, which he said was the top priority for the country this year.
“The enemy plan was to blockade Melitopol by the end of the 15th day of the offensive,” Gerasimov said. The Ukrainians then planned to advance towards the Sea of Azov, the city of Mariupol, and the border of Crimea, he added.
Melitopol is a large city in Zaporozhye Region, located some 40 km away from the coast of the Azov Sea and about 15 km away from Molochnyi Lyman, a large coastal estuary connected with it.
Gerasimov noted that the core of the Ukrainian force used in the counteroffensive consisted of brigades trained and armed by Western nations. The grouping that was supposed to reach the Azov Sea initially included 50 battalions armed with over 230 tanks and more than 1,000 infantry fighting vehicles, half of them Western-made, he reported. The force was later boosted to 80 battalions, according to the general.
Russian troops prepared deep defensive lines to prepare for the planned attack. When Ukraine launched it on June 4, it “achieved minor advancement at the cost of colossal losses,” failing to breach “even the tactical zone of our defenses,” he stressed.
Additional supplies of Western weapons and the deployment of strategic reserves by Kiev failed to turn the tide, Gerasimov added. “Hence, the counteroffensive, which Ukraine and its NATO allies had touted widely, failed,” the general stated. The Russian official reiterated that the Ukraine conflict was a “hybrid proxy war against Russia by the US and its allies,” waged with Ukrainian hands. Washington wants to prolong the conflict by providing military assistance to Kiev, he claimed.
In addition to conducting active defense on the front line, Russian forces are using long-range precision weapons to attack Ukrainian “command sites, defense factories and critical objects with a military purpose,” Gerasimov said, adding that over 1,500 such targets have been hit. Degrading the Ukrainian military industrial capacity has been a major achievement, he noted.
Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, Gerasimov’s counterpart in the Ukrainian military leadership, acknowledged in early November that the frontline situation had turned into a “stalemate.” Senior civilian officials, including President Vladimir Zelensky, disputed his assessment for weeks before finally admitting that the push against Russia was over. The president claimed that the new phase was necessitated by cold weather when he conceded in early December.
Top Russian general reveals details of Kiev's failed counteroffensive.
US Senator Says Ukraine, Western Backers’ Desire to Return to 1991 Borders ‘Fantasy’.
The desire of Ukraine and its Western backers to return the country to its 1991 borders is a fantasy, US Senator JD Vance said on Wednesday.
“The fundamental problem with the Ukraine war is not inadequate funding or too few weapons. It was the Western conceit that Ukraine could throw Russia back to 1991 borders. That was a fantasy 18 months ago; it is a fantasy today,” Vance said in a statement via social media platform X.
The only question for the United States is how much further destruction it ought to foist on Ukraine before advocating for peace, the statement said.
The outcome of the Ukraine conflict will be blamed on lawmakers who were skeptical of funding the conflict, the statement added.
US Senator Says Ukraine, Western Backers’ Desire to Return to 1991 Borders ‘Fantasy’.
Rejecting Russian energy cost the EU dearly - Borrell.
The bloc purchased replacement fuel at higher prices that "others could not pay," Brussels’ top diplomat has admitted.
By weaning itself off Russian energy after the start of the Ukraine conflict, the EU may have simply traded one dependency for another, the bloc’s top diplomat Josep Borrell has said.
Speaking at a geopolitical summit organized by Le Grand Continent journal on Wednesday, Borrell admitted that, while the bloc usually struggles to work out compromises on complex issues because even one member can block the process, it “miraculously” managed to harmonize its response to the hostilities in Ukraine quite quickly.
“Europe’s reaction to the war against Ukraine was remarkable… drastically reducing energy dependence on Moscow, which seemed impossible,” he noted, recalling that at the start of the conflict Russian energy accounted for about 40% of the bloc’s total consumption.
The top diplomat said that, despite Moscow’s belief that this would prevent the EU from taking decisive action, this was not what happened in reality. However, he admitted that the bloc had to pay a heavy price for its energy policy.
owever, he admitted that the bloc had to pay a heavy price for its energy policy.
60% of Russian exports now go to Asia – finance minister
“Prices went up, as did interest rates. The economy… suffered. We paid a political price, we bought a lot of gas, all over the world, we had to buy at higher prices that others could not pay. Maybe we have changed one dependency for another. But in any case, we have freed ourselves from energy dependence on Russia,” he said.
In March 2022, the EU unveiled a plan to wean itself off Russian fossil fuels “well before 2030,” by increasing the use of renewable energy sources, reducing consumption, and finding other energy sources.
The EU’s initiative coincided with the bloc’s push to impose unprecedented sanctions on Russia, including in the energy sector. Those measures, including the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines last autumn, which Russia claimed was orchestrated either by the US or its allies, were widely regarded to have sparked a powerful energy crisis in the bloc.
Russian officials have repeatedly stated that the EU has never been able to achieve true energy independence, arguing that it had become addicted to American gas while moving away from Moscow.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova also said in January that the EU “is now completely dependent on the US, because it has lost the freedom of choice. This is the real dependency and what Washington had been aiming for.”
Rejecting Russian energy cost the EU dearly - Borrell.
Another US Mercenary Bites the Dust on Ukrainian Battlefield.
Last week, another US mercenary found out the hard way that traveling to Ukraine to fight on the side of the Kiev regime can drastically shorten one’s lifespan.
Ethan Hertweck, a 21-year old ex-US Marine-turned-mercenary from California, has been killed while fighting on the side of Kiev regime near Adveyevka, a city in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
The US gun-for-hire arrived in Ukraine in mid-2023 as an instructor with a Ukraine-based private military outfit called Trident Defense Initiative, only to be later spotted fighting as part of the 131st Recon Battalion.
Following the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in February 2022, hundreds of mercenaries from North America and Europe flocked to Kiev’s banners, lured by the promise of blood money - heedless of Russia’s warnings that foreign mercs will return home in body bags.
Months later, the luckiest and smartest of these rent-a-thugs saw the writing on the wall and fled to wherever they came from, while many of the others met their end at the hands of Russian troops.
Another US Mercenary Bites the Dust on Ukrainian Battlefield.
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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.
FUTILE GESTURES TO SAVE FACE ARE GETTING HUNDREDS OF UKRAINIANS KILLED EACH DAY
This week Zelensky called for another half million Ukrainians to be mobilised. This week also saw videos published showing men being forcibly dragged from hotels, cafes and the street to be given rudimentary training before being sent to the front lines to die gruesome deaths. They will face battle-hardened Russian troops with superior kit, morale, weapons and ammunition. This while the Ukrainian army is fast running out of the will to fight, suffering frostbite and having ever less to fight with.
Zelensky appears to have become a megalomaniac without a trace of feeling for those hapless souls he demands be made cannon fodder in a war that is clearly lost. His backers in the West appear to have had enough of throwing good money after bad into the Ukrainian money pit. Yet Zelensky clearly has no compunction regarding sending ever more men, and now women, to the battlefront to die or be mortally wounded in conditions of absolute horror.
The tragedy of this war is that it was known from the start how it would end. That is, with a Russian victory. Russia could not afford to lose, far too much was at stake regarding its national security. The only thing that could have stopped Russia winning would have been direct intervention in Ukraine by the western powers via NATO. That option was barred right at the start due to the inevitability of a wider war in Europe erupting, quite possibly leading to all-out nuclear war between Russia and the West.
With no NATO involvement and no direct European military involvement for the same reason as that behind the NATO restraint Moscow was ALWAYS going to defeat any resistance put up by Ukraine, no matter how many weapons or of what type flowed into Ukraine from the West. Yes, if the financial and economic sanctions the West has applied to Russia had had the desired effect things would have been otherwise, however Russia has shaken off their effects and is now experiencing 3.5% economic growth.
We are now in an absurd position where Russia is clearly moving forward taking more land in a steady grinding down of the Ukrainian army with no calls for talks from the West to end the carnage? The policy of western leaders is clearly to encourage Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian while the cause is lost without any possible shadow of a doubt? There are no miracles in warfare, or damn few, and those that do arise will stem from individual heroism in the face of all odds. Ukraine cannot possibly hope for divine intervention. So what now?
For now it seems that the daily grind goes on and this form of grinding is macabre indeed. Using vastly superior firepower Russian multiple rocket launchers and other artillery fire an estimated six and a half thousand rounds at EVERY target. That’s every trench, dugout, village, town and conurbation. Ukrainian forces have nothing to match that. Plus they are dog tired, frost-bitten and demotivated. Their reserve forces, meant to provide relief are in their turn being decimated in their bases by long range Russian missiles.
Russia fires on its targets from dawn to dusk, softening up resistance for the day when Russian troops can move forward to minimal resistance. This grinding down operation is repeated time after time according to well-crafted strategies to encircle the most important towns. The Russians are methodically decimating the Ukrainian army on their way to what was always an inevitable victory.
The number of Ukrainian casualties has varied between four hundred and eight hundred dead and wounded per day. And this day after day after day. Meanwhile Joe Biden and the rest of those who urge the various meat grinding fire sacks to go without let nor hindrance are sitting comfortably in their posh homes having a Martini, beer or whatever their favourite tipple is quite oblivious to the suffering they are encouraging. Nothing must get in the way of their re-election so this deadly show must go on and a pretence of “victory” be concocted.
In March of last year Boris Johnson persuaded Zelensky not to give in to the temptation to continue the talks with Russia that neared a breakthrough in Istanbul. There the Ukrainian delegation appeared to be nearing a sensible position on at least some of Russia’s demands. However, Johnson’s visit to Kiev put an end to the process. Without doubt with the connivance of Biden he was able to bring talks to an end by promises of wonder weapons which would turn the tide of war in Ukraine’s favour.
Well, it hasn’t and it won’t. The HIMARS and Patriot systems and all else in the high-tech weaponry department of the West won’t do the trick. Ukraine already had a huge range of multiple rocket launchers at the start of the conflict. They are all gone. The weaponry that came in from the West didn’t even replace what was lost. Russia continues to crush the Ukrainian military and with its drones is spotting has taken out a significant number of Ukraine’s arms depots. The Ukrainians lament each day now that they are running out of the means to fight. This as the West protests that it has little more to give.
There is no good news for Ukraine, only bad and getting worse. Desertions are becoming more frequent, the number of dead per day is rising and while Ukrainian troops make videos saying they may turn and march on Kiev against Zelensky and continue to surrender in significant numbers. The Russian military is in the process of breaking through Ukrainian lines and looks set to liberate a number of major Ukrainian towns including Avdeyevka. There will be no stopping them now.
The time for Zelensky and his puppet-masters in the West to come to the negotiation table was months ago, yet still they refuse. All this means is that thousands more Ukrainians will die needlessly and yet more Ukrainian territory will be taken. To delay an hour more is madness. Yet delay they do. Till when? Till Russia moves all the way west to the banks of the Dnieper, decimating the Ukrainian army the entire way? At that point the Ukrainian regime and its backers may call for talks. The Russian response at that point however will be to call for total capitulation and submission to all Russian demands.
Is the western response we see to date just to save face? To stave off the humiliation of defeat for a few more months? To do all they can with futile gestures that bring nothing of substance to the final result? To posture and pontificate while delivering what they think are the required deceptions needed because whatever they do they must not at all costs, confront the awful truth?
This is a level of self-seeking irresponsibility that reaches a degree of callousness beggaring belief. Zelensky and his backers are presiding over a bloodbath simply to cover themselves in the hope of safeguarding their political careers and prospects. They need to end these futile gestures for the sake of humanity, they need to face the reality of defeat, to insist agree on the need for negotiations before it becomes too late, and to immediately do all possible to end this proxy war against Russia with immediate effect.