RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 25.04.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 25.04.2024
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.
*** HOW FAR WILL RUSSIA ADVANCE BEFORE WEST WEAPONS ARRIVE? ***
“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.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
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LT. COL. TONY SHAFFER: $61 Billion Can’t Save Ukraine.
More weapons for Kiev won’t change battlefield dynamics – Kremlin.
Remark from Dmitry Peskov comes after US Congress greenlit $61-billion aid package for Ukraine following months of bickering.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The $61-billion defense package recently approved by the US Congress will not change the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine’s favor, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. Earlier this week, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that Moscow’s forces had seized an initiative in the Ukraine conflict.
On Saturday, the US House of Representatives passed the package valued at $95 billion, the lion’s share of which will go toward shoring up Ukraine. The Senate gave its thumbs-up to the legislation on Tuesday, with President Joe Biden expected to sign off on it on Wednesday. Several media outlets have reported that first batches of aid could be dispatched to Kiev within days.
Initially presented last fall, the package wallowed in limbo for months as Republican lawmakers blocked it in a drawn-out bid to squeeze concessions out of the Biden administration on US border-control policies.
READ MORE: Moscow issues dire warning over US-Ukraine aid bill
Speaking to Russian media on Wednesday, Peskov stated that the “situation on the battlefield is too eloquent and unequivocal, but we never tire of repeating that all these new batches of weapons, which are likely ready by now, won’t change the dynamics on the front line.”
The Kremlin spokesperson also pointed out that Western media’s and officials’ narratives have “mutated” a lot over the past year. He explained that, while the general consensus in the West a year ago was that Russia’s defeat was imminent, this later gave way to warnings that the Ukrainian government could fall, and eventually that more weapons deliveries could prevent this outcome.
Peskov emphasized that the US government has effectively been funneling billions of dollars into its own military industrial complex all along.
Speaking at a meeting with top Russian commanders on Monday, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that Moscow’s forces had been making advances and have liberated several towns in Donbass in recent days.
He estimated Kiev’s losses at half-a-million troops since the start of the conflict.
More weapons for Kiev won’t change battlefield dynamics – Kremlin.
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US sided with evil and fascism – Russian envoy.
Washington is sacrificing lives of Ukrainians ‘for the sake of its greedy and insatiable defense industry,’ ambassador has said.
Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov © Getty Images / Justin Sullivan / Staff
The US government has made its choice in favor of war, siding with evil and supporting fascism, the Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov has said, in comments on the latest massive American military aid package for Ukraine.
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden signed a long-stalled $95-billion foreign-aid package, including $61 billion for Ukraine. Biden said the US would start sending weapons and military equipment to Ukraine “in the next few hours.”
Washington is balancing on the brink of a direct clash between nuclear powers, Ambassador Antonov told reporters following the news. The development strikes a severe blow to prospects for a hypothetical revival of Russian-American relations in the future, Antonov believes.
“For the sake of its greedy and insatiable defense industry, the [Biden] administration sacrifices the lives of ordinary people. With their decision, local politicians actually put an end to the fate of the entire state [of Ukraine], which is used as a ‘battering ram’ against Russia,” he stated.
The high-ranking Russian diplomat accused the US administration of violating the UN Charter’s obligation to maintain ‘primary responsibility for international peace and security.’
“American aid will not save [Ukrainian President] Zelensky” he stressed, adding that any new weapons being sent by Washington to Kiev would be destroyed, and that the tasks and goals of Moscow’s military operation will be realized.
READ MORE: Biden signs $95 bn foreign military spending bill
The Kremlin has repeatedly warned that Washington’s lethal aid will not change the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine’s favor. According to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, the US government has effectively been funneling billions of dollars into its own defense industry through the aid scheme.
GOD OF FIRE: WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT RUSSIA'S S-500 PROMETHEUS MISSILE SYSTEM
Russia’ defense ministry confirmed on Tuesday that the military will be receiving additional S-500 missile systems this year. Russian and foreign observers alike have touted them as perhaps the most sophisticated and powerful air and missile defense system in the world. Here’s why.
Russia’s Air Defense Troops will be getting a much-needed boost to their capabilities this year amid the ongoing NATO proxy war in Ukraine, including the new S-500 air and missile defense system.
“This year, the troops will receive the first units of the new-generation S-500 anti-aircraft missile system in two modifications – long-range anti-aircraft missile systems and missile defense systems,” defense minister Sergei Shoigu said in a briefing Tuesday.
In addition, Shoigu said, defense manufacturers will deliver new S-400s, S-300V4s, Buk-M3s, Tor-M2Us and unspecified “new generation radar systems,” beefing up Russia’s integrated anti-air and anti-missile shield.
Responsible for keeping the airspace above the largest landmass on Earth clear of threats, Russia’s air defense forces will need all the help they can get in the coming months, especially after the US and Britain moved this week to dramatically escalate the Ukrainian crisis by approving tens of billions of dollars in new arms assistance, including Storm Shadow cruise missiles, and potentially, ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles.
The S-500 Prometey (lit. ‘Prometheus’ – as in the ancient Greek god of fire) is a road-mobile air and missile defense system created by Almaz-Antey
– Russia’s premier developer and manufacturer of missile-based anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense weapons. For starters, let’s get the system’s basic characteristics out of the way:
The system has a range of up to 600 km, and the ability to detect targets at up to 800 km away.
The S-500 can simultaneously target up to 10 ballistic supersonic targets flying at speeds up to 7 km/s.
It can also attack targets flying at hypersonic speeds (up to Mach 10, or 12,348 km per hour).
The S-500’s range is sufficient to disable enemy missiles, spacecraft, and orbital weapons platforms in space at low-Earth orbits.
The system’s interceptor missiles maneuver in flight, and feature independent onboard radar components enabling them to engage in kinetic attacks.
The S-500 can be incorporated into a single air and missile defense network alongside the S-400, S-300VM4, S-350 Vityaz and other systems.
History
Development of the fifth-generation iteration of Almaz-Antey’s S-series long-range surface-to-air missile system began in 2002, the same year the United States unilaterally walked out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia and began experimenting with missile shield and massed conventional strike capabilities. Initial development work is known to have been carried out under the codename Vlastelin (lit. ‘Sovereign’ or ‘Master’).
Preliminary design work was completed in 2011, with prototype equipment manufactured from 2013 on for testing, and a new series of missiles specifically for the system created in 2014-2015. Development work was completed in the late 2010s, after the system began rigorous testing by the military. The first S-500 brigade set arrived at the 15th Special Purpose Aerospace Forces Army – responsible for the defense of Moscow and central Russia, in the fall of 2021, with Almaz-Antei general director Yan Novikov confirming in the spring of 2022 that mass production was underway.
Composition
Like other systems in its class, the S-500 consists not only of launchers, but a complex, difficult-to-decipher ecosystem of accompanying equipment (which can be mixed and matched depending on needs) including one or more target acquisition radars, counter-jamming equipment, command post, and one or more reloader vehicles.
Because of the S-500’s designation for use at long ranges against missiles, aircraft and spacecraft and limited to no utility against short-range threats, the system is a high-value target which ideally should be accompanied at all times by Buk, Pantsir-S and/or other shorter-range air defense systems to protect it.
The S-500’s configuration may include:
Multiple 77P6 launch vehicles containing the air and missile defense missiles. The heart of the system. The S-500 is easily distinguishable from the S-400 and other S-series launch vehicles thanks to its dual launch container payload, instead of the usual four
55K6MA or 85Zh6-1/85Zh6-2 command post vehicle
91N6A(M) early warning target acquisition and battle management radar
96L6-1 acquisition radar, and/or 76T6/77T6 ABM engagement active phased array radar
96L6 mobile high altitude detector radar (optional)
97L6 advanced air and missile defense control system (optional)
40V6MT universal mobile control tower mast (optional)
Missiles
A new generation of anti-aircraft and anti-missile missiles were developed specifically for the S-500. According to publicly available information, missiles used by the system include:
77N6-N and 77N6-N1 interceptors for missile defense and anti-satellite/spacecraft purposes. Adopted into service in 2022. Developed by MKB Fakel, an Almaz-Antey subsidiary with over 70 years’ experience developing surface-to-air guided missiles.
40N6M anti-aircraft missiles
Capabilities
Russian and foreign military observers agree that the S-500’s declared characteristics make it indisputably the most sophisticated air and missile defense system in the world – and one likely to remain without analogues for years to come.
“The S-500 is a robotic complex. In automatic mode and with elements of artificial intelligence, it is able to determine target type, separate friend from foe, select the most dangerous target, select the required type of missiles and fire them. All of this is carried out under the control of human operators, but can take place either in fully manual mode, when each function is performed by the operator, or in automatic mode,” Russia military expert Yuri Knutov wrote in an analysis about the Prometheus in 2022.
The S-500 is an important tool for Russia’s increasingly dense air and missile defense umbrella which can help protect entire cities from enemy attack, defense affairs observer Alexander Khrolenko believes.
“It can be the lead complex alongside the S-400, S-350 Vityaz, S-300 and Pantsir complex. And the greatest value of the S-500, given its anti-missile capabilities, is that it can be deployed first to cover cities with a population of over one million people, and the most important military and administrative facilities,” thus “deploying an umbrella of missile defense over our country,” Khrolenko wrote in a piece for Sputnik’s Belarusian sister site in 2022.
“As part of the state armament program running until the year 2025, it’s planned to purchase five S-500 brigade sets, which will be combined with the A-135 missile defense system operating in central Russia. In the future, the ground-based S-500 may get a ship-based version,” the observer added.
“Under its ‘Prompt Global Strike’ concept, the United States can fire up to 6,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles against an enemy nation target in a single salvo. In the event of a military conflict with Russia, this concept uses all meaning. The surprise use of cruise missiles and ICBMs by the Pentagon and NATO against the territory of the Russian Federation would be deflected by air and missile defense systems. At the same time, retaliation against the aggressor using hypersonic, cruise and intercontinental missiles would take place.” Here, the S-500 acts as a key component of Russia’s air defense shield, and a “new technological breakthrough on a cosmic scale,” according to Khrolenko.
Foreign observers agree, with an analysis by Military Watch Magazine in 2022 calling the S-500 a force multiplier for Russia’s Air Defense Troops, enhancing its ability to destroy both missile and space-based threats and fifth-gen military aircraft such as the F-22 and the F-35 (which the S-400 can also target).
Knutov says that for the United States to get a rough analogue of the S-500’s capabilities, its engineers would need to combine, and then upgrade, several of its existing systems.
“For the complex to work equally well against aerial and ballistic targets, the Americans would need to combine the ground-based Aegis Ashore complex with the Patriot missile system, or the THAAD complex with the Patriot complex. This would be expensive, and not very effective, especially because THAAD works only in certain sectors of fire. To change the firing sector, it would be necessary to take down and redeploy the station in the desired direction,” he said.
The S-500, on the other hand, is rapidly deployable, and can be made ready for use in a matter of minutes, and pack up and leave just as quickly for rapid departure to avoid being spotted and struck after launching its missiles. Besides that, the S-500’s 600 km firing range is up to triple that of the THAAD or Patriots’ capabilities.
God of Fire: What We Know About Russia’s S-500 Prometheus Missile System.
ISRAEL <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN
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COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
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USA
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EUROPE
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AFRICA
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MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
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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.
WE WILL BE #1 ON THIS PLANET… OR YOU WILL ALL DIE
What is the underlying nature of the global conflict that we see consuming the attention of western political elites currently and what might the consequences be for every last one of us?
Whether you believe 9/11 was an inside job or was the result of international terrorism, it has as a consequence, resulted in a drive for permanent and unquestioned global dominance by the USA and its proxies. Through this drive for complete, overarching wardenship over the entire planet and via this, unfettered access to all modes of communication and unlimited ability to punish incorrect thoughts and deeds, the USA and its proxies mean to achieve ‘full spectrum dominance’ worldwide.
It was already assumed before 9/11 that due to the exceptional nature of the USA that the assertion of its will on the world would be its most worthy beneficial act in honour of the God that had blessed them with the power to effect this task. The mythology of the pilgrim fathers fleeing despotic regimes demanded that all such regimes in modern times be overthrown. This only seemed right, indeed a duty. This project was however, in the background before 9/11, lacking the powerful impulse that 9/11 would give it. After 9/11 it became perceived as a messianic necessity.
The impulse above is singular in its path and those who feel themselves charged with effecting this holy duty do not, cannot and never will question its rightness nor conceive of any alternate path. The zealots who hold all this in dedication as their life’s work to achieve will accept nothing less. There can be no deviation from the goal of complete and unrivalled global domination. Failing to reach this goal is unthinkable. The western world MUST be made safe within the great stage of universal democracy, firmly held in place by those who can be trusted to preserve it through transforming all rival systems into mirror images of itself.
Until the goal of total liberal elite dominance worldwide is achieved no project can be allowed to rival it. No other issue will significantly affect its pursuit, nothing can be allowed to distract from its urgent deliverance. No law, jurisdiction, concept of sovereignty, nor ethical or moral code will be allowed to present a barrier to those actions deemed necessary to achieve it in its entirety. The goal, unquestioned and unquestionable, will be pursued despite any and all negative outcomes no matter how unthinkable they may have been previously. No limit will ever be placed upon the actions deemed necessary to achieve a successful final outcome.
The agreement to these necessary changes has been enforced in all nations within the orbit of U.S. control largely without question. Those within the orbit who refuse to any degree will be undermined through attack by all means considered necessary until they relent or are replaced. A unified front is the essential tool through which target nations will be rendered compliant or have their unacceptable modes of governance dismantled and replaced. Unity of purpose and coordinated action among members enable the directed power to overcome and destroy any and all adversaries… without exception. Constant adherence to agreed narratives against all adversaries being essential.
The ultimate end result envisioned is a planet monitored in depth where all adversaries have been eliminated and replaced, where any trace of opposition to the new order is speedily identified and nullified. No rogue elements will be allowed to escape the filtration process presently underway. All such elements require removal by extreme prejudice and replacement by conforming entities willing to embrace every positive element within the necessary, post 9/11 changes. Any and all opposition will be destroyed toward the end goal of global stability, individual freedom and world peace. No alternative reality is acceptable.
If the USA and its proxies find insurmountable difficulty in the tasks named above this of course will be entirely unacceptable, the consequences then will be grave indeed…
WE WILL BE #1 ON THIS PLANET… OR YOU WILL ALL DIE
