RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 19.11.2023
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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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Articles by Russia Today (RT) - 19th November 2023:
Ukraine must brace for loss of US support – ex-ambassador.
Republican opposition is complicating White House efforts to support the country’s military, Valeriy Chaly has said.
Valeriy Chaly, Kiev’s former envoy to Washington, has said that Ukraine should brace for a potential political crisis in the US that could undermine further military assistance to the embattled nation.
In an interview with Espresso TV Channel this week, Chaly, who served as Ukraine’s ambassador to the US between 2015 and 2019, weighed in on a recent visit by a Ukrainian delegation to Washington that sought to lobby the US Congress for more financial support to Kiev. According to the diplomat, Ukraine has found itself in a precarious situation.
“Out of the three scenarios that we’ve been talking about for a long time, our government has for some reason considered the most optimistic scenario, and what is happening now is actually the worst-case scenario,” he told the Ukrainian broadcaster.
Chaly pointed to concerns that Republicans, led by new House Speaker Mike Johnson, would delay providing aid to Kiev. “We don’t know what will happen next. It is already clear that there will be a decrease,” he added.
Still, the envoy said he was sure that the West would not pull the plug on Ukraine aid in the near future. “I expect that this level of support will not decrease drastically until summer,” Chaly said, recalling that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a financial plan for Kiev at least until next July.
“But now we have to think about the fall of next year when the US will most likely enter a political crisis when it will be difficult for us to close the budget for the year,” the diplomat said.
Last month, US President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve a $106 billion aid package that focused mainly on Ukraine and Israel. However, many Republicans argued against the “blank check” policy on Ukraine and said they wanted to treat the two issues separately.
On Friday, Biden signed a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown that included no additional funding for Israel and Ukraine.
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, the US has provided more than $44 billion in military assistance, with the White House recently warning that available funds were running out amid the congressional gridlock.
Russia has repeatedly warned the West against supplying Ukraine with arms, arguing that this would only prolong hostilities and make it a direct participant in the conflict.
Ukraine must brace for loss of US support – ex-ambassador.
Ukrainian military pilot defects to Russia – media.
The pilot is already on Russian territory and is being interviewed by the security services, the TASS news agency says.
A military pilot from the Armed Forces of Ukraine has defected to Russia, TASS reported on Saturday, citing a person who allegedly organized the pilot’s flight over the frontlines. The Ukrainian in question is an active-duty serviceman who held the rank of “senior officer” with Kiev’s forces, a Russian Telegram channel following the situation has claimed.
“The Ukrainian armed forces pilot is currently in Russia and is being interviewed by the Federal Security Service,” a Russian military strike helicopter pilot identified by TASS as Aleksey Voevoda told the agency. Russians were reportedly behind the operation.
Voevoda declined to reveal any details about the operation, adding that he could not share them now. Some Russian Telegram channels have claimed that an interview with the Ukrainian pilot might be published soon. His identity and rank remain unclear. According to Voevoda, the Ukrainian pilot was a flight commander in Ukraine.
The pilot in question has reportedly been helping the Russian forces since the start of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev, according to a claim by the deputy information minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Daniil Beznosov. “The Ukrainian pilot had come down to our side from the very beginning of the special military operation and was helping us with information and in other ways,” the official wrote in a Telegram post.
The development comes amid the largely stalled Ukrainian counteroffensive. The operation, launched by Kiev in early June, has failed to bring about any meaningful changes to the frontlines. On the contrary, it has also led to heavy losses in personnel and material on the Ukrainian side.
In late October, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that Russian troops had “taken down 24 planes in five days.” Earlier the same month, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed estimates that Kiev lost over 90,000 soldiers in its counteroffensive. According to Putin, the Ukrainian military also lost 557 tanks and almost 1,900 armored vehicles over the same period.
In early November, Ukraine’s top military commander, General Valery Zaluzhny, told The Economist that the conflict between the two neighbors had reached a World War I-style stalemate, in which Russia had an edge due to superior personnel reserves and greater resources.
Ukrainian military pilot defects to Russia – media.
EU may ‘postpone’ Ukraine decision – Reuters.
The bloc also faces tough questions about funding Kiev indefinitely.
Brussels might not initiate formal membership talks with Kiev at next month’s summit, as was originally planned, and could reschedule the matter for March 2024 instead, Reuters reported on Friday, citing an unnamed senior EU official.
Hungary could potentially block the consensus required to open talks, but the problem goes beyond Budapest, said the official, identified only as being involved in preparing the December 14-15 summit of the heads of 27 EU member states.
Some EU leaders have proposed to take up the topic at the March summit, after the European Commission has had a chance to assess whether Kiev has met all of the EU conditions.
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban warned earlier this month that Ukraine was “absolutely not ready” for EU membership talks, while Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto called it “absurd” for the bloc to even try evaluating Kiev’s compliance while a war was ongoing.
While the EU has repeatedly vowed to stand with Ukraine for “as long as it takes,” the unnamed official told Reuters that the latest discussions have been a “reality check” on this policy, with national leaders “realizing it’s quite expensive.”
“We cannot allow Ukraine to go bankrupt, it’s not an option for us. But it’s not easy," the official said. “How do we pay for this?”
Foreign policy commissioner Josep Borrell’s proposal to commit an additional 50 billion euros ($54 billion) to Ukraine through 2027 has reportedly been criticized “from several sides,” and not just by Hungary.
Germany is the EU’s biggest financial contributor, but, earlier this week, its constitutional court blocked Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s plan to repurpose 60 billion euros ($65.21 billion) in unused pandemic funds for its “climate and transformation fund.” This has further tied Berlin’s hands when it comes to finding money for Kiev, the official told Reuters.
“Maybe we have had too high expectations,” the person told the agency. “Will we continue to support Ukraine financially, military? Do we have the means to do this? Are we sure that the US will be following us over the coming years?”
Washington has already proposed reducing the amount of economic aid – money used to pay government salaries – to Kiev by $275 million a month, with the expectation that the EU, Canada, and Japan would pick up the slack. Congress has yet to address the White House’s $61.4 billion request, however.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s former prime minister, Nikolay Azarov, has estimated that 75% of Kiev’s budget comes from Western grants or loans at this point, and that President Vladimir Zelensky’s government would have been unable to pay October salaries without a €1.5 billion remittance from the EU.
“It’s not that people have been calling for peace,” the unnamed official told Reuters. “Individual members have said very clearly that we at some point need an end to this. The consensus is to continue to provide support to Ukraine, but some of those questions are coming.”
EU may ‘postpone’ Ukraine decision – Reuters.
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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.