RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 26.11.2023
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.
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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:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Huge Rus Drone Strike Rocks Ukr; Avdeyevka Perimeter Collapse; NATO Fortifies Border Baltic Blockade.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Putin asylum Finland. Russian advance, Adveyevka. Bundeswehr, Russian attack. Nigeria BRICS. U/1
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
Armenia continues to follow in Ukraine's footsteps.
Biden White House signals red lines to Netanyahu.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Their Army Is No More.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Europe is trying to freeze its ears to spite Russia.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Kiev strikes back at the West, Drone attack on Moscow fails, Israel and Palestine exchange hostages.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
German Protesters Rally Against Military Aid for Ukraine, Demanding Military Spending Cuts.
Palestinians Desperately Long for Essential Supplies as Humanitarian Aid Reaches Northern Gaza.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - UKRAINE/RUSSIA
Deadly Russian Drones Force Ukraine To Hide Valuable Artillery In Bakhmut Bushes | Watch:
Russian FPV Drone Blows Up Fortified Ukrainian Position In Soledar | Watch Dramatic Footage:
Russian Forces Shoot Down Two Ukrainian Jets, 18 Unmanned Aircraft In 24 Hours, Claims Moscow.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - ISRAEL/GAZA
BBC Journalists Expose 'Double Standards' In Reportage Of Israel-Hamas War | 'Failed To Tell Story'.
Massive Violence In Palestine Amid Gaza Truce; Six Killed As Israeli Forces Storm West Bank's Jenin.
Hamas Mocks Israeli Military's Gaza 'Failure' Amid Truce; 'Our Leaders Safe In Tunnels...' | Watch:
HINDUSTAN TIMES - USA/CHINA
China Warns U.S.; Shoos Away Naval Destroyer USS Hopper | 'Biggest Destroyer Of Peace'.
RICHARD MEDHURST
I've Had Enough.
LARRY C. JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Winning isn't just about Killing and Destroying.
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Ray McGovern (former CIA) talks about the Genocide of Gaza and Nentanyahu.
JEFFREY SACHS
The Complexity of Global Involvement.
VANESSA BEELEY
Palestinian Christians - a history of oppression and displacement - The Stones Cry Out.
RACHEL BLEVINS - SCOTT RITTER
Hostage Deal Shows 'Israel Is Not Winning'.
SCOTT RITTER
"Israel Defense Force is INCOMPETENT! Palestine has nearly reach it's goal..."
AL JAZEERA ENGLISH
More than 100,000 back on the streets of London for Gaza.
Occupied West Bank raids: Funerals held for five people killed in Jenin.
THE REAL NEWS NETWORK
Zionist anti-Palestine censorship is surging w/Dylan Saba | The Chris Hedges Report.
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Rabbi Baruch Rosenblum: "three Israeli tanks destroyed in one night".
Freed Palestinian prisoner reunites with her son.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Palestinians celebrate return of prisoners in Israel-Hamas deal in West Bank.
Protesters demand Netanyahu's removal over 'mishandling' hostage situation and Oct. 7 attack.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
39 Palestinians Released Under Hostage Deal Return Home.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
Will Russia and China Intervene in Gaza?
EMIL COSMAN
Aggressor US violates China's sovereignty. US Destroyer enters China's territorial waters. Not Sunk.
Finland exposed as a Fake. Professes "love/tolerance" for migrants, but closes its borders to them.
They try to blame Russia for Holodomor. Who were the actual criminals? Stalin and Kaganovich.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
Hamas Frees More Israeli Hostages After Hours-Long Delay.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Over 100,000 Attend Pro-Palestine Demonstration in London.
China, South Korea Reaffirm Bilateral Strategic Cooperative Partnership.
AITELLY
How The Lancet Drone Works | Exploring Aerial Kamikaze Innovations.
DAVID WOO
Oil Price War: Will MBS Save Biden or Putin?
WILD SIBERIA
SKID ROW! A Disaster In Americas Homeless Capital.
WADAH KHANFAR
The fall of Western order, the rise of the Global South.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
West votes against democracy, human rights, cultural equality at UN; promotes mercenaries, sanctions.
How extremist Javier Milei became Argentina's president: A story of debt, crisis, and empire.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS
China & Saudi Arabia’s Currency Swap Suggests the End of Petrodollar.
RACHEL BLEVINS
Meet Javier Milei: Argentina's New President is Anti-BRICS, Wants to Dollarize Economy.
MILITARY TV
Russia Launches Yars Nuclear Missile Over Arkhangelsk.
U.S. MILITARY TECH NEWS
The Sophistication Of The Russian Mig-31K Fighter Jet Is Difficult For Both China,The US To Match.
CGTN
Dilma Rousseff: GDTE represents the openness, power and vigor of the Chinese economy.
SILVER STACKER
What China Just Did Is BAD NEWS For The Dollar (But Not For Gold & Silver).
TECH REVOLUTION
Turkey Drops A Bombshell Warning To The West, Australia Rejects Ceasefire, Does The Unexpected.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
EU's Risky Gambit, Russia Threatens The Unthinkable, U.S. Cuts Venezuela Oil Deal.
ACTIVISM MUNICH
Israelischer Politiker äußert sich zu Israels "Kriegsverbrechen" & "Faschismus".
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
AMBASSADOR CHAS FREEMAN
The Neocon's Biggest Defeat Since Vietnam And There Is Nothing They Can Do.
Articles by Russia Today (RT) - 26th November 2023:
Boris Johnson derailed Ukraine peace deal – key Zelensky ally.
Early on in the conflict, he told the country to “just continue fighting,” top Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia claims.
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson played a key role in derailing a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev, telling Ukraine to “just continue fighting,” top Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia has said. Arakhamia, the head of President Vladimir Zelensky’s parliamentary faction, was the chief negotiator at the botched peace talks in Istanbul, held early into the ongoing conflict.
The MP made the bombshell revelation on Friday in an interview with the Ukrainian 1+1 TV channel. “Russia’s goal was to put pressure on us so that we would take neutrality. This was the main thing for them,” he said. “And that we would give an obligation that we would not join NATO. This was the main thing.”
However, Kiev did not actually trust Moscow to keep its word and did not want to reach such a deal without third-party “security guarantees,” Arakhamia claimed, while revealing the lead role in derailing the agreement was played by Johnson.
When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kiev and said that we would not sign anything with [the Russians] at all. And [said] ‘let’s just continue fighting.’
The pivotal role played by Johnson in Ukraine’s decision to scrap the draft agreement with Russia – signed by Arakhamia personally in Istanbul – has long been rumored, with initial reports on the matter emerging in Ukrainian media as early as May 2022. Until now, however, it was neither denied nor confirmed by any of the parties involved.
Kiev threw out the preliminary deal as soon as Russia withdrew its troops from the vicinity of Kiev, as a gesture of good will. The pullback was portrayed by Kiev and its Western backers as a major Ukrainian military victory, which greatly reinforced the positions of those willing to pour military aid into the country.
Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a draft agreement “on permanent neutrality and security guarantees for Ukraine” during a meeting with African leaders in Moscow. At the time, Putin said the Ukrainian delegation initially agreed to sign a neutrality pact that would also cap Ukraine’s heavy weapons and hardware.
Boris Johnson derailed Ukraine peace deal – key Zelensky ally.
War in Ukraine is lost – retired US colonel.
Douglas Macgregor claims Washington has already “sent almost all of our war stocks, weapons systems and ammunition” to Kiev.
Ukraine and its Western backers have already lost the conflict with Russia, former Pentagon adviser Douglas Macgregor claimed on Friday. The retired US Army colonel and decorated veteran urged Washington and Kiev to enter peace negotiations with Moscow as soon as possible.
Macgregor’s comments came at a time of depleting Pentagon funds available for Ukraine, after President Joe Biden’s administration failed to push a $105 billion spending package through Congress, a significant part of which was supposed to go to Kiev. The president was forced to sign a stopgap spending bill instead, which only included funding for domestic government agencies.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Macgregor claimed the US has “sent almost all of our war stocks, weapons systems and ammunition to Ukraine,” adding that Washington does not “have a great deal left.”
“The war in Ukraine is lost,” he concluded, calling on the “fools” to “Make Peace.”
On Tuesday, ABC News, citing an anonymous Ukrainian official, reported that deliveries of US-made artillery rounds to Kiev had decreased by “more than 30%” as Washington tries to perform a balancing act between supporting Israel and Ukraine.
The network’s source revealed that the shortages were especially noticeable in the supply of NATO-standard 155mm artillery shells. The unnamed official told reporters that Ukraine was “in big trouble [as] basic munitions are not coming.”
According to the Ukrainian staffer, if the current trend continues, Kiev’s forces could end up losing some of their positions on the battlefield.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon’s deputy spokeswoman Sabrina Singh revealed that Washington had spent around 95% of previously allocated funding for Ukraine, adding that approximately $1 billion remained available.
The Defense Department was having to “meter out our support for Ukraine,” which has resulted in aid packages “getting smaller,” the official noted.
The US has spent some $44.2 billion on military assistance for Kiev since fighting broke out between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022, the US State Department estimated earlier this month.
Moscow has repeatedly condemned Western arms deliveries to Kiev, insisting that they will not change the course of the conflict, while merely prolonging the bloodshed and increasing the risk of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia. Several top Russian officials have also repeatedly accused the US of waging a proxy war “to the last Ukrainian.”
War in Ukraine is lost – retired US colonel.
Germany today could do what Hitler did but faster – Hungary's top MP.
Speaker Laszlo Kover fired a broadside at Berlin and the UN, and even launched a personal attack on the US ambassador.
Germany is destroying itself faster than under Adolf Hitler’s rule, while the UN is nothing but a front company for propaganda, Hungarian parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kover has said.
The senior MP, well-known for repeatedly making various controversial statements, produced a flurry of inflammatory remarks on Thursday when he spoke at a sovereignty-protection forum held in the central Hungarian town of Jaszapati. The speaker launched a bitter attack on Germany, comparing its current leadership to that of the Hitler era.
“We have no reason to be happy that the Germans are destroying themselves and are doing so with a whirlwind speed, perhaps faster than Hitler did,” Kover asserted.
Hitler needed 12 years to accomplish this, those who are now [in Berlin] do not even need 12 years to send Germany to the ground in every sense, economically and socially.
Apart from obliterating German leadership, the top MP was also highly critical of the EU, as well as the UN. He blasted the United Nations as a mere “front company” without any weight and being used only for propaganda purposes.
Kover, who is a co-founder of Hungary’s Fidesz party, compared the European Union to the Warsaw Pact, a long-defunct Cold War-era security system established by the USSR and its Eastern European satellites, including Hungary. Nowadays, Brussels effectively plays the same role as Moscow used to play at the time, the MP suggested, insisting that Budapest was at war only with the Eurobureaucracy rather than with the EU itself.
“The Union is us,” he stressed.
Kover’s speech at the forum also included a personal touch, as he launched a bitter attack on the US ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, stating the top diplomat actually meant that little to him, he literally considered Washington’s envoy in Budapest a “non-existent” person.
“He is not persona non-grata, but rather a non-person,” the speaker stated. “For me, for example, he’s a non-existent person who sometimes appears. I don’t know who he is, what he wants, he’s supposed to be an ambassador, but he doesn’t act like one.”
It “doesn’t matter” what the US diplomat relays to the Hungarian government – and otherwise – given that Pressman apparently came to the country with a firm belief he was actually sent to govern it, Kover explained.
Germany today could do what Hitler did but faster – Hungary's top MP.
Russia launches new military satellite.
The space vehicle has been successfully placed into its target orbit, the country's Defense Ministry announced.
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying a military spacecraft was blasted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the north of Russia on Saturday night, the nation's Defense Ministry said.
According to its statement, the launch of the carrier rocket proceeded as planned. At the estimated time, the military spacecraft was successfully placed in its target orbit and handed over to the control of the ground facilities of the Aerospace Forces’ Space Troops.
“A stable telemetry link has been established and maintained with the spacecraft,” the ministry said, adding that onboard systems were operating normally.
Once the spacecraft was in orbit, Military Space Force (MSPF) intelligence officers began analyzing and processing information about the new space object, the statement says. The video of the rocket takeoff was released by the ministry.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket was watched by 45 female students from the Moscow and St. Petersburg boarding schools of the Defense Ministry and the Kyzyl Presidential Cadet School, who were invited to the cosmodrome for a tour, TASS reported citing the military department. The day before, the cosmodrome personnel reportedly showed the students the rocket launch pad, the assembly and testing building, and the facilities for the Angara carrier rocket.
READ MORE: Russia threatens to strike US space infrastructure
The previous launch of Soyuz-2.1b was reported on October 27 from the same Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The rocket carried several spacecraft for the Russian Defense Ministry. The exact purpose and number of devices, as well as their capabilities, have not been disclosed.
According to the Russian space agency Roscosmos, a total of 67 launches of Soyuz-2.1b rockets were carried out from December 27, 2006 to November 25, 2023, delivering 577 spacecraft into orbit.
Russia launches new military satellite.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
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Ukraine SITREP D640.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK
Battlefield Earth Russian Breakthrough Military Coup in Ukraine.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
Fall Of Southeastern Avdiivka.
HS MAPPING UPDATE
Ukrainians Retreat From Southeastern Avdiivka l Russia Storms North Of Avdiivka.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Wagner STORMZ & Conquer Industrial Area South of Avdiivka.
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.