RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 08.12.2024
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USING TERRORIST FORCES TO ACHIEVE REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA IS ABOUT TO THROW A WORLD ALREADY GRIPPED BY WAR INTO EVEN MORE CHAOS.
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Roger Waters Slams US Decisions on Ukraine, Calls NATO Expansion 'Dreadful'.
Roger Waters, a co-founder of British rock band Pink Floyd, said in an interview with Sputnik that he considers all decisions by the US authorities regarding Ukraine to be terrible.
Every decision they've made about Ukraine has been dreadful. From the moment Victoria Nuland organized the Maidan coup onwards, and before that, from the moment that they decided to expand NATO," Waters said.
Nuland was US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 to 2017.
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"It breaks my heart to see innocent people caught in this ideological battle between the Bandera Nazis and a possible future. A democratic future where all human rights are respected by all parties," Waters added.
He said that US President-elect Donald Trump may take significant steps toward resolving the conflict in Ukraine soon after his inauguration, possibly on January 20 or 21.
In addition, Trump is not interested in spending on a hybrid war against Russia in Ukraine, Waters said.
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COLLECTIVE WEST | GLOBAL MAJORITY
Russia Warns Against Geopolitical Use of Terrorists in Syria’s Conflict.
The offensive by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)* terrorist group in Syria has been long in the making, and Russia will oppose attempts by the militants to alter the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (SAR), Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Moscow has called for restraint from all parties in the unraveling conflict in Syria.
"The situation has sharply escalated in recent days due to the clearly premeditated aggressive offensive on government forces by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (former Al-Nusra Front*), an organization designated by the UN Security Council as a terrorist group, which has been joined by several smaller factions," Lavrov said during a press conference following his visit to Doha.
He emphasized the urgent need to stop the hostilities and said that Russia would actively oppose any attempts by HTS militants to change the situation on the ground in Syria.
"We are absolutely convinced of the inadmissibility of using terrorists like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to achieve geopolitical goals, as is happening now with the organization of this offensive from the Idlib de-escalation zone," Lavrov explained during a session at the Doha Forum.
The main task now in the situation surrounding Syria, according to Lavrov, is to halt the clashes.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has promised to involve influential external actors to stop the fighting and resume negotiations between the government and opposition, Lavrov added.
The top Russian diplomat also reiterated Moscow's efforts to counteract terrorism in Syria: "We are doing everything to prevent terrorists from gaining the upper hand, even if they claim that they are no longer terrorists."
"On the military front, Russia is helping the Syrian army with support from the [Russian Aerospace Forces], based in Khmeimim, and we assist the Syrian army in repelling terrorist attacks," he added.
Additionally, Lavrov stated that Russia, along with Iran and Turkiye, will take steps to ensure that calls for de-escalation in Syria are heard.
World: Aleppo Crisis: What's Really Going on in Syria?
The terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, along with several armed factions from the so-called Syrian armed opposition, launched a large-scale operation on November 29, advancing from northern Idlib towards the cities of Aleppo and Hama. By the following day, November 30, the second-largest city in Syria, Aleppo, along with its surroundings, including the international airport and the Kuweires military airbase, came under the control of the terrorists.
This marked the first time that the militants had fully taken over Aleppo since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011. Until late 2016, the armed opposition controlled only the eastern part of the city, which was recaptured by the Syrian army with Russian air support.
After the capture of Aleppo, the terrorist units attempted to advance towards the city of Hama, capturing the town of Maaret al-Numan. The Syrian army fought off heavy terrorist attacks in the Hama province from three directions for several days, preparing for a counteroffensive. However, on December 5, the SAR military command officially announced the redeployment of its units from the city of Hama.
The city of Hama, located in central Syria, has been under the control of the Syrian army throughout the conflict, which began in the spring of 2011. Hama holds strategic geographic importance, lying between the provinces of Homs and Damascus and connecting through mountain ranges to the Latakia province.
The last attempt at an armed insurgency by radical Islamist underground forces, supported by the Muslim Brotherhood*, in Syria’s fourth-largest city took place in 1982. At that time, thanks to prompt action by the Syrian military command, the city was freed from terrorist groups, and control was restored to official authorities.
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Jihadists reach Damascus suburbs – AP.
Terrorist groups have taken over some of Syria’s largest cities as Assad’s office claims the president is still in the capital.
A Syrian opposition fighter holds a rocket launcher in front of the provincial government office, where an image of Syrian President Bashar Assad is riddled with bullets on the facade, in the aftermath of the opposition's takeover of Hama, Syria, December 6, 2024. © AP Photo / Ghaith Alsayed
Jihadist groups in Syria have reached the suburbs of Damascus as part of a rapidly progressing offensive that has overrun some of Syria’s largest cities, Associated Press wrote on Saturday, quoting opposition leaders and an Islamist commander.
At the same time, the Syrian presidency has refuted rumors stating that President Bashar Assad has left Damascus, adding that false reports of his departure from the Syrian capital have been spread by foreign outlets in an attempt to “mislead and influence” the country’s population.
With Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) jihadists and other anti-government forces moving south from Aleppo and Idlib provinces over the last week, the Syrian Army has repeatedly withdrawn from key strongholds – including Aleppo, Hama, and several towns north of Homs – in a bid to re-establish defensive lines and hold back the advancing terrorists.
According to Associated Press, terrorist elements apparently broke through these lines and reached the outskirts of Damascus on Saturday, marking the first time since 2015 that jihadists have encroached on the capital.
Read more: Terrorists roll into key Syrian city (VIDEO)
Amid HTS’ lightning-fast advance, the office of the Syrian Presidency announced on Saturday that “some foreign media outlets are spreading rumors and false news about President Bashar al-Assad leaving Damascus, or making quick visits to one country or another.”
“The Presidency of the Syrian Arab Republic denies all these rumors and points out their blatant goals and confirms that they are not new, but rather these outlets have previously followed this pattern of attempts to mislead and influence the Syrian state and society throughout the past years of the war,” the statement continued.
Assad is still carrying out his “national and constitutional duties from the capital, Damascus,” it concluded.
In an anonymously-sourced report on Friday, the Telegraph claimed that Assad’s family had fled to Russia, and that it was “unclear” whether the president himself would remain in Syria. Multiple Western outlets have claimed that Egypt and Jordan are urging Assad to flee the country and set up a government in exile.
Led by a former Al-Qaeda commander and previously known as Jabhat al-Nusra, HTS was one of a multitude of factions opposing Assad’s government during the Syrian Civil War.
Read more: Russian-Syrian airstrikes kill dozens of terrorists – media
Russia intervened in the conflict in 2015, helping Assad retake much of the country from Jabhat al-Nusra, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), and dozens of US-supported armed groups termed “moderate rebels” by Washington. The US directly intervened against IS, but armed and funded other anti-Assad forces during the decade-long conflict.
Assad has vowed to “eliminate” the jihadists currently rampaging through central Syria, and to punish their “sponsors and supporters.” Russian and Syrian warplanes have carried out near-constant airstrikes against HTS positions since the terrorist offensive began last week, reportedly killing dozens of militants north of Homs on Saturday.
According to Syrian media reports, Syrian and Russian forces have killed around 2,500 jihadists since the beginning of December.
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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.
USING TERRORIST FORCES TO ACHIEVE REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA IS ABOUT TO THROW A WORLD ALREADY GRIPPED BY WAR INTO EVEN MORE CHAOS.
