RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 07.03.2023
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.
Please note: We will be on the African continent rather than the European for approximately the next eight days. Updates will occur at different times than in recent weeks, they will perhaps be less comprehensive than usual and may be completely absent on certain days.
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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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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’.
Russia Presses Bakhmut Cauldron, Discusses Further Donbass Offensive; Zelensky Vows Bakhmut Defence.
THE DURAN
Bakhmut heats up w/Brian Berletic and Gonzalo Lira (Live).
Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’.
Reinforce Bakhmut. Scholz says Biden is most skilled. China spy cranes. Bono, Pink, LVIV AID. U/1
SCOTT RITTER
Ep. 51: Ask the Inspector.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO
Is the U.S. a threat to Russia?
Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: March 6, 2023
GARLAND NIXON
THE NATION OF UKRAINE NO LONGER EXISTS + TRUMP BLASTS NEOCONS.
CGTN
Chinese FM: China-Russia ties based on non-alliance, non-confrontation.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin's Army destroys Ukrainian military facility in seconds with new-gen munitions | Watch:
Russia beats Arab nations Saudi and Iraq to become India's top oil supplier in Feb | Details:
SCOTT RITTER
Ukraine/Russia War Machine Conflict.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN - EX-CIA
CIA and Ukraine.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
It's Over In Ukraine. Russia's Strategy.
Why Has China Suddenly Taken An Aggressive Approach To The Ukraine War?
JEFFREY SACHS
Jeffrey Sachs on Seymour Hersh, Nord Stream Bombing, Ukraine & the Cold War with China.
SCOTT RITTER
NATO Is Not A Defensive Alliance.
U.S. TOUR OF DUTY
Scott Ritter on post-conflict Ukraine.
Tim Kirby Russia and Scott Ritter on American expats in Russia.
Ukrainian Units Leaking From Bakhmut March 6, 2023.
REDACTED
Biden declares National State of Emergency as Putin takes key Ukraine city | Redacted News.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER
Russia can't lose.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO
Crimea & World War III. 2 Ukraine pilots here in the U.S. to improve their skills.
DANNY HAIPHONG
GERMANY'S DEMISE | RUSSIA CLOSING IN ON BAKHMUT | CHINA SPY CRANES EXPOSED.
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine Proxy War Is "Acme Of Professionalism".
Putin's Troops Left To "FIGHT WITH SHOVELS".
Stephen Gardner
White House PANICS Over New LEAKED REPORT.
RUSSIA TODAY (RT) - NEWS
THE CONVO COUCH
US Preps for War w/ China, US Official Admits US at War w Russia, Marianne Williamson POTUS GRIFT.
EMPIRE FILES with Abby Martin
CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia 'defeats' Zelensky's men in Donetsk, Kupiansk settlements; 'Won't stop at Bakhmut'.
Russian marines in a fierce shootout with Ukrainian troops in a Donetsk town | Watch:
CGTN
How will the Ukraine crisis change world order?
JEFFREY SACHS
Fools.
Laughable... 😂😝
BREAKING POINTS
US Claims UKRAINIANS Blew Up Nord Stream | Breaking Points
BORZZIKMAN
Pentagon is Desperate! The Trap is Sprung! Kyiv sent its Strategic Reserves to Bakhmut.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - RICHARD MEDHURST
INTERVIEW: ‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend’.
KIM IVERSEN
Twitter Files Once Again Exposes The “Censorship Industrial Complex” | Michael Shellenberger.
Li Jingjing 李菁菁
Why do Africa & Latin America prefer China? | Chat w/ Ghanian & Brazilian researchers.
Vlog: How China involves Chinese people in policy-making process.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Protests against Macron's visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
FIRSTPOST
US Authority Accuses India of Funding Afghanistan's Warlords | Vantage with Palki Sharma.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MICHAEL PARENTI: U.S. HATE for RUSSIA.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 7th March 2023:
Zelensky at odds with top general – Bild.
Commander Zaluzhny called for a withdrawal from a key city, but the president has refused, the newspaper reported.
An internal conflict is underway between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and General Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, according to government sources cited by Bild on Monday. Kiev insiders told the German tabloid that the military commander called for a withdrawal from a key Donbass city weeks ago.
Zaluzhny advised the president to abandon Artyomovsk, known as Bakhmut in Ukraine, rather than keep defending it as Russian troops threatened to take control of the city, the newspaper reported. However the Ukrainian leader declared the city a fortress, and refused to pull troops back.
Russian forces have made notable advances in the fight for Artyomovsk this year. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private military company Wagner Group, claimed last Friday that it was “de-facto completely surrounded,” with only one road available for possible evacuation.
According to US media, Washington has been urging Zelensky to pull out of Artyomovsk and focus on preparing a major counteroffensive for the spring using Western-supplied weapons, but the Ukrainian president fears a morale hit that such a move would cause.
The city is part of a 70km Ukrainian defense line created since Kiev initiated the fighting in Donbass in 2014. US officials have assessed that its loss to Russia would not affect the strategic situation.
Bild sources claimed that Ukrainian troops on the ground in Artyomovsk “do not understand why the city is being held” and believe they should have withdrawn a long time ago. Zelensky recently stated that Ukrainian forces would defend it as long as it “remains reasonable” to do so.
The German tabloid also noted that Zaluzhny’s popularity for leading the military campaign against Russia makes him a viable challenger to Zelensky in a potential presidential run. The general has not publicly announced any ambition to run for office, but rumors have been circulating in Ukraine for months regarding Zelensky’s concerns over possible competition.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 7th March 2023 : Zelensky at odds with top general – Bild
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (88.1k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.07
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS (1.75k subscribers):
Ukraine Russian War, Battle for Bakhmut, Marinka and Donetsk for March 6th, 2023.
'NWE WAR REPORTS' (31.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA (60.4k subscribers):
[ Analysis ] Secret plan of Wagner PMC in their Bakhmut Offensive.
[ Bakhmut ] Zelenskyy throwing Generals under bus; claiming they suggest to STAY & FIGHT for Bakhmut.
LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (24.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (22.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (136k subscribers):
Ru captures eastern Bakhmut [7 March 2023] -Russian invasion of Ukraine.
LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57.2k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine the JDAM.
LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
No update posted so far today
LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.75k subscribers):
Ukraine: Day376 [7 March] Russian forces reaches the centre of Bakhmut.
LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (74k subscribers):
Wagner Captures Eastern Bakhmut Ukraine Refuses To Retreat and Plans A Counterattack | FFU 07/03/23
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
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THE NEW RUSSIAN CENTURY
The entire western world is in steep decline. The USA, its primary head without democratic mandate, is in the process of decapitating itself through its Ukraine policy. Collateral damage is being felt across its allies in the UK and European Union.
Meanwhile, the nations of the global south are treating the West’s demand that they criticize and ostracise themselves from Russia with disdain.
The geopolitical world has clearly reached a watershed moment. The power to command, dominate, manipulate and threaten the entire world from Washington and Whitehall is dissipating steadily on a daily basis.
As one power falls another rises.
China is by far the greatest power facing the USA and its proxies. China is the economic peer competitor to the USA and a constant expansion in its influence is being felt in areas the West has considered its own fiefdoms until now. We can see the U.S. and its proxies doing all they can to undermine the expansion of China’s win-win economic connections with other nations across Asia and beyond. Its war against China is still at the nascent stage with the main battles still ahead.
It is none other than Russia however that has taken upon itself to resist the desire of the USA and its allies to shore up its much sought after hegemony, global control through full spectrum dominance of air, land, sea and space with surveillance powers encompassing every last living soul worldwide.
Russia it is that reflects the shining spearhead against the waning, but still powerful, forces of the collective west. Russia was the power to stand firm and state, “Thus far and no more!” against the tide of U.S. belligerence moving steadily toward it. In Syria and now in Ukraine Russia has and is defending the East against the predatory ambitions of the West.
In Syria Russia stepped in after four years in which the USA, UK, France, Turkey and others sought to use proxies to bring down Bashar al Assad unleashing an unstoppable terrorist horde who would have undoubtedly installed a caliphate there if not defeated. Russia was their nemesis. Russia it was, through its powerful intervention, removed their threat along with the Syrian Arab Army and relegated the terrorists to the corner of Syria that is Idlib.
In Ukraine Russia is inexorably defeating the collective west even as the western powers do everything in their power to hinder Russia’s inevitable success in achieving the goals it set itself. The Donbass region will transfer to Russia within the next three months and any attack upon this new Russian soil will be dealt with severely, sending a very definite message to those opposing Russia.
That message is that Russia has fully regained its status as a sovereign world power capable of facing down any threat aimed at it, that it has regained full confidence and competence across all important fields of endeavour, has assembled a coalition of many extremely powerful friends and now fear no one
Russia has gained the admiration and respect of the global south rather than its criticism through its robust military posture regarding the adventurism of the US, its proxies and their tool, NATO. Nations are lining up to join Russia in the BRICS network, some of them erstwhile allies of the USA and West in general.
It is Russia that has been gaining all the while as the West, seen as an agent of chaos and instability across the global south and in Asia, has steadily lost influence. The disastrous regime change wars of choice instigated by the West post 9/11 have brought it into disrepute as an untrustworthy friend of ally, more a threat than friend in fact. The way the U.S. found it easy to break its word over the Iranian nuclear agreement showed just how untrustworthy it can be.
NATO, rather than not moving an inch further east as promised by multiple political elites of the West to Gorbachev, has desired to move right to Russia’s doorstep. We now see the response that Russia has given that betrayal. Now, with Iran and Turkey (a NATO member of course) we see a widening of the response against a western world requiring immediate quarantining.
As the West spirals down into debt, social discord and interminable disunity, economic disaster and unlimited disharmony the nations of Eurasia reflect the polar opposite where profitable interconnection and unity are the order of the day. Local currencies are being used ever more frequently in place of the dollar thus closing another route for western belligerence.
Much of the above is being led by Russia. And much of all else by China. Truly these two in mutual respect and heightening cooperation are leading a process that will eventuate in the creation of a new, multipolar world. In the background, China lends support and provides moral encouragement to the nation and leader who are at the forefront during the facing down of the West.
That nation is of course Russia, and her president, Vladimir Putin.
We now find ourselves truly fortunate to live at the start of THE NEW RUSSIAN CENTURY.
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