RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 08.04.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 08.04.2024
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.
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*** STEADILY THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS GRINDING DOWN ALL OPPOSITION ***
“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.
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Ukraine conflict must end – EU state’s president-elect.
The hostilities have only brought misery and death over the past two years, Slovakia’s Peter Pellegrini says .
The Ukraine conflict has accomplished nothing but tens of thousands of deaths and must be resolved as soon as possible, Slovakian President-elect Peter Pellegrini has said.
Pellegrini, who is currently serving as the speaker of the national parliament, won the presidential election on Saturday, receiving 53% of the vote. His rival, ex-Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok, widely described as a pro-Western candidate, received around 47%. Pellegrini is an ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, who opposes sending weapons to Ukraine.
In an interview with the Ta3 broadcaster on Sunday, the president-elect stressed that “the killing [in Ukraine] should be stopped immediately and then action should be taken.”
He added that “it is an absolute tragedy to support… a conflict that has not brought any results in two years” while leaving tens of thousands dead.
He also stressed that while Slovakia will remain aligned with the EU and NATO, it will seek to be more independent on the global stage.
Read more: Ukraine-skeptic wins EU state’s presidential election
The president-elect also rejected the idea that his campaign was based on fearmongering, telling local media that, on the contrary, he wanted to reassure his fellow citizens that they will not have to go to war. He added that he would “rather listen to the Holy Father in the Vatican than French President [Emmanuel] Macron” when it comes to ideas for resolving the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.
In March, Pope Francis urged Ukraine to start peace talks with Russia, saying it is important to have “the courage of the white flag” – an appeal that was vehemently rejected in Kiev. Macron has taken a more hardline approach. At one point, he said that deploying NATO troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out, while describing Moscow as an “adversary.”
Russia maintains that it is open to talks with Kiev; however, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree banning negotiations with the current leadership in Moscow after four former Ukrainian territories voted overwhelmingly to join Russia in the autumn of 2022.
Last month, however, Zelensky suggested that a return to Ukraine’s 1991 borders is no longer a precondition for negotiations with Russia, insisting instead that the territory it lost in 2022 must be restored.
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The facility was targeted by multiple kamikaze drones, Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rosatom has said.
Multiple explosive-laden Ukrainian drones targeted the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday, hitting several parts of the facility, Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rosatom said in a statement. At least three employees were injured in the attack, the agency added.
According to a Telegram post by the facility’s Russian management, one kamikaze UAV struck near the power plant’s canteen, damaging a nearby truck. Another drone exploded in the vicinity of the cargo port. The attack on the plant’s canteen left at least three employees injured, Rosatom said in a separate statement.
“20 minutes before the attack, [International Atomic Energy Agency] experts were conducting an inspection of this territory,” the management said.
The nuclear power station, the largest in Europe, was integrated under Moscow’s control in 2022, early in the Ukraine conflict. Rosatom formally took it over after Zaporozhye Region was incorporated into Russia following a referendum in the autumn of that year.
Kiev has repeatedly claimed that Moscow keeps heavy weaponry on the premises of the power plant. Russia has accused Ukraine of shelling the facility and risking a major nuclear incident.
The power plant’s representatives accused the Ukrainian military of targeting the dome of the sixth power unit, but no critical damage or casualties were reported. It also reported that radiation levels around the power plant remained normal.
READ MORE: UN responds to Ukrainian attack near Russian nuclear plant
The management of the facility stressed, however, that “no nuclear power plant in the world is built to withstand full-scale fire impact by an armed force.”
On Friday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on the “IAEA and its leadership to actively use the experts present at the station to publicly record all cases of attacks from the Ukrainian side and clearly state where the threat to the safe operation of this facility really comes from.”
Commenting on Ukrainian strikes earlier this week, which threatened to cut off the power plant from its source of electricity needed for cooling, the international nuclear watchdog said it was aware of the incident and was studying it.
Three injured in Ukrainian attack on Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.
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Tens of thousands demand Netanyahu’s ‘immediate’ replacement.
Demonstrators have accused the Israeli prime minister of slow-walking a ceasefire deal to please hardliners in his cabinet.
Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in Tel Aviv to demand the resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the return of hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza.
Nearly six months to the day since Israel declared war on Hamas, around 100,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Democracy Square on Saturday evening, protest organizers claimed. Carrying Israeli flags and chanting anti-government slogans, the demonstrators called for early elections and implored Netanyahu to strike a deal with the Palestinian militants to release more than 100 Israelis thought to remain in captivity.
Speaking at a pre-protest press conference, Einav Zangauker, whose son was taken to Gaza as a hostage, claimed that Netanyahu is deliberately avoiding a deal with Hamas in order to please his far-right coalition partners.
“Netanyahu is failing the deal on purpose and he is standing between us and our loved ones in Gaza,” Zangauker said, according to the Times of Israel. “The hostages don’t have time for elections and to wait, the obstacle to the deal must be removed now and Netanyahu replaced immediately.”
As the crowd gathered in Tel Aviv, Israeli and Hamas delegations prepared to travel to Cairo for Egyptian- and Qatari-brokered ceasefire negotiations on Sunday. While a temporary ceasefire in late November saw Hamas swap 105 hostages for 240 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, successive rounds of talks have failed, with Israel refusing to accept the phased release of captives proposed by Hamas, and the militants refusing to accept anything less than a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
Netanyahu insists that Israel will keep fighting until it achieves “total victory” over Hamas, and that the Jewish state will maintain “full security control” over Gaza once the war concludes.
The Israeli prime minister was unpopular before the war began in October, with tens of thousands of people marching almost weekly to demand his resignation over multiple corruption scandals and a package of controversial judicial reforms. The war put a stop to the protests until earlier this year but the demonstrations have increased in scale since last month.
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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.
ADVOCATES OF WAR WITH RUSSIA WILL BE REJECTED AT THE POLLS AS IN SLOVAKIA YESTERDAY
Everyday men & women in the street loathe the idea of war. This is in stark contrast to the most prominent politicians who now hold office across the western world. For peace to be resumed they must go.
One by one the warmongers will go, deselected, unelected, dismissed, humiliated and rejected, denied the platform they have sullied for so long. Yesterday one such is on her way out, Zuzana Čaputová, soon to be ex-president of Slovakia. The man replacing her, Peter Pellegrini has sworn to end Slovakia’s fuelling of the war in Ukraine and will advocate in determined and resolute fashion for negotiations leading to peace.
Last year Peter Pellegrini’s political colleague, Robert Fico, became Prime Minister of Slovakia. Fico holds the same views as Pellegrini on the conflict in Ukraine. No more weapons will be sent to the Ukrainian regime. Instead Slovakia will be an advocate for negotiations leading to a settled peace along with Viktor Orban of Hungary.
The warmongers are on their way out across Europe and soon too, it is to be hoped, in the USA and UK also. Their time in office has seen the western world disgraced across Asia and the Global South. Their use of the Ukrainian people in their geopolitical goal to weaken Russia has seen them use the most cynical device and strategy since their combined effort to bring Syria down through the use of terrorist forces.
Scholtz, Baerbock and Hadek of Germany will surely be shown the door soon. Their combined efforts have brought what once was the powerhouse economy of Europe to its knees. Through siding with the neocon warmongers of the USA and Britain they have brought deindustrialisation to Germany and humiliation to Germans who have been sorely betrayed in regard to their expectations of those they elected. Poll ratings and vocal protests at meetings to which these three speak show clearly that their time in office is clearly coming to an end.
In France Macron is a national disgrace and subject to both the anger of millions, especially including those in the agricultural sector, and increasingly fear due to his seeming willingness to bring World War Three about through sending French troops into Ukraine. For years now Macron has suffered the wrath of the French people on a more or less constant basis. He too will be shown the door never to be asked back very soon.
The Baltic States house some of the most war-hungry politicians on the planet. Their howls for war against Russia shame those nations. Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have shameful legacies of continuing support for the remaining traces of Nazis. With annual commemorations and ceremonies held they attempt to sanitise acts of mass Nazi horror and hatred. It is no wonder then that these creatures wish to foment war against the nation that defeated their “heroes”. Those who laud the past crimes of the Nazis and praise the modern Nazis in Ukraine should be thrown out of office at the earliest possible moment.
Poland, another nation that holds past grievances against Russia close to its heart, has long forgiven the Germans who hurt the nation far more. For some unknown reason Russophobia remains alive and well among the Polish political class and has surfaced to a greater extent than ever before in recent years. Poland appears to want war with Russia, and quite blindly and recklessly it pursues a catastrophic foreign policy toward it. The Polish people have hopefully by now woken up to the catastrophic prospect of what a war with Russia would mean and will act accordingly against those politicians who advocate for such a war.
Diplomacy has died in the hearts and minds of all the men and women in the nations mentioned above. They drive the western world inexorably toward disaster and appear quite oblivious to the fact. Such blindness in the face of obvious realities is unforgivable and as such must surely mean the political demise of those fuelling this insane juggernaut of war. If not the prospects for anything approaching a resumption of peace and stability are bleak indeed. It must surely be the case however, that the people of Europe, of the USA and Britain, have too much at stake to join the reckless projects being pursued by their leaders and will vote them out of office, bringing in those who advocate for a negotiated peace such as Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini of Slovakia.
