RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 29.04.2023
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 in Türkiye (Turkey) for the next seven days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to our daily updates.
*** HAS RUSSIA ELIMINATED UKRAINE’S AIR DEFENCE? ***
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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
UK: West Must Double Down Even if Ukr Offensive Fails, Medvedev: Russia Will Go Full Victory.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Russian center update. Drone strike in Sevastopol. China forces Elensky to listen in Russian. U/1
SEAN FOO
BREAKING: America’s Shocking Plan For Russia Just Crumbled.
SCOTT RITTER
Discussing Ukraine WAR.
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (April 29, 2023).
GLENN DIESEN
The Russia-China Partnership in the Arctic - and US reaction.
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 65: Ask the Inspector.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive, Nuclear threat, US biolabs, Turkey-Regime change, Sudan truce, Oil...
THE NEW ATLAS
The Critical Hour: Growing Doubt Over Ukraine's Offensive + US Difficulties Recruiting New Soldiers.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
NATO, behind the scenes: Ukraine is a Fool's Errand.
SCOTT RITTER
The Risk of Territorial Conquest Poland - Ukraine Confederation.
VANESSA BEELEY
Weekly round up of the news - Israel, Nord Stream, Syria, Turkey and the state of British politics.
DANNY HAIPHONG
China Just DESTROYED US Hegemony in Ukraine and the Middle East.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW w/ AARON MATÉ
U.S. Actually Criticizes Russia For Jailing Journalists!
How Incredibly Sad U.S. News Media Has Become – w/ Seymour Hersh.
War Machine THRILLED To See Tucker Carlson Go.
RICHARD MEDHURST
LIVE: China Pushes Ukraine and Russia Toward Peace, US Troops in Sudan, & More…
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - JOSE VEGA
EXPOSING the NY Times & Wash Post.
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine SCOLDS US Military.
RFK Jr GOES OFF On Big Pharma.
TARA READE - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Ray McGovern: Honorable Attraction to CIA & Awakening to the Dark Side.
CHRIS HEDGES - RAPH NADER
America's VILLAINOUS WAR On Workers.
SERGEY LAVROV
On the admission of Ukraine to NATO and the EU.
Expectations for peace and security on Earth.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Ukraine stated that it has the right to destroy everything that is on territory of Crimea! Russia RU.
JEFFREY SACHS
"Donbass is Russian."
HINDUSTAN TIMES
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'Mass destruction of Ukrainians': Putin ally's chilling threat after Crimea drone attacks.
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Russian missiles roar in Ukraine's Uman as Kyiv scrambles to launch counteroffensive | Watch:
TELETRUTH
Wagner ambush AFU convoy on the road to Bakhmut.
TARA READE
Randy Credico | Caleb Maupin | Jose Vega: The Politics of Reality vs Narratives.
BREAKING POINTS w/ KEN KLIPPENSTEIN
Pentagon Demands MILLIONS For Havana Syndrome.
STANSBERRY RESEARCH
US Dollar Disruption Could Lead to War, De-Leveraging System Comes With Immense Pain.
JEFFREY SACHS
The Horrible Clash Between Russia and The USA.
CGTN
Ukrainian expert: China can promote peaceful resolution to conflict.
Ukrainian expert: China's peace plan is very timely.
DEMOCRACY AT WORK
Ask Prof Wolff: The True Cost of Sanctions.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
The World Rejects Globalism As The Woke Left IMPLODES.
RUSSELL BRAND
What the F*ck Is He Talking About?
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHY IS UKRAINE THE WEST’S FAULT?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 29th April 2023:
Promises made to Russia on Ukraine grain deal were not kept – Türkiye.
Moscow has warned it will not renew the accord unless its own exports are unblocked by the West .
Russia’s unhappiness with the manner in which the Ukraine grain deal has been implemented is understandable, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has conceded. The Kremlin has vowed that it will let the accord lapse in mid-May unless the US and EU lift sanctions that effectively prevent Russia from exporting its produce and fertilizers.
In an interview with Türkiye’s Hurriyet newspaper published on Friday, Cavusoglu acknowledged that “what was promised to Russia did not come to pass.”
“We cannot say that the Russians are wrong [with their complaints],” the minister argued.
According to the diplomat, Ankara has notified Washington and London that the future of the deal – formally known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative – is hanging in the balance. Cavusoglu stated that the US and the UK are “two countries [which] are key in banking,” and that the “inclusion of the Russian agricultural bank [Rosselkhozbank] in the SWIFT system also depends [on them].”
The official revealed that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had suggested using a Turkish bank to facilitate payments to Russia for its grain and fertilizer exports.
“The goal is to solve the problem and keep the deal going,” Cavusoglu insisted.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti that Moscow believes the grain deal “can’t be extended without meeting the requirements.”
As per the agreement initially brokered by the UN and Türkiye last July, corridors were established through the Black Sea to ensure safe passage of Ukrainian grain, primarily intended for poorer nations whose food security was threatened.
The deal also required the US and its allies to unblock Russian grain and fertilizer exports, which have remained largely paralyzed due to Western sanctions imposed on shipping, as well as denial of access to brokerage and insurance services.
Formally, however, the US and EU have exempted Russian grain and fertilizers from the sanctions.
In March, Moscow agreed to extend the grain deal by 60 days, warning that it will not do so again if the other parties fail to honor all of its terms.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
A Fierce Battle For The South Of Ukraine Is About To Begin. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.29
Explosions in the Crimea. Bakhmut Front Update. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.29
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Donetsk Front ] Avdiivka, Sjeverne, Pervomaiske Marinka, Novomykhailivka, Vodyane & Pavlivka.
[ BAKHMUT ] WAGNER FORCES CLOSED UP ON THE ENTIRE EASTERN HALF OF "THE CITADEL" - Fighting in the N.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Bakhmut Front Update [29 April 2023]
FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
Russia Captured Another Half Of Remaining Fortified Areas In Bakhmut In A Day.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Drone and Missile War.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HISTORY OF MAKUS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Bakhmut Endgame | Wagner Assaults Citadel Area | Full Front In Depth Update 29/04/23.
Bakhmut Endgame | Full Front In Depth Update 29/04/23.
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
THE BUBBLE OF WESTERN PROPAGANDA ON UKRAINE WILL BE SEEN TO BURST
It was inevitable due to the parlous state of western mainstream journalism that it would descend into abject jingoism in response to the past eight-year history of Ukraine.
Just as it descended to these depths over Syria and before then Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan so it has once more in respect of Ukraine.
Was it what journalism was meant to be about? No. But it became the default stance over time to bolster western interests to the detriment of any principles involved.
Of course there was the hand of western state officials in western journalism’s demise also. The Gilligan ‘sexing up of WMD claims’ affair in the UK along with the smashing of the Snowden laptops in the office of the Guardian newspaper there also (by state officials or those sent by state officials) that provided a heavy hint that editors and owners would toe the line… or else.
Only a few stalwarts such as Robert Fisk and John Pilger remained to provide examples of what true journalism was. The opinionated talking heads on the BBC and CNN were midget-like figures by contrast along with those across the panoply of viewspapers that pretended to be communicating news in the West.
So it came to Ukraine’s turn for the treatment. Its president, along with just about anyone and their dog that had something to do with the Kiev side of things were given the red carpet, “You are speaking Holy Writ” treatment. What has transpired from 2014 to the present day has been the obedient passing along of whatever propaganda this side wished to pass off as “news”. In combination with this a strict filtering system has been evident across all western mainstream media.
What was good for Kiev was seen as good to go, inserted immediately into news articles and TV “news” programming for maximum effect. What was bad for those seeking autonomy in eastern Ukraine or for Moscow was also good to go and inserted alongside the former. All in a nice neat convincing and conditioning parcel of half-truths, omitted facts, obvious propaganda gambits and outright lies.
Meanwhile Kiev was given a huge green light to continue bombarding urban areas in eastern Ukraine, killing innocent men, women and children with complete impunity, totally unreported by a western press and media pretending to be completely unaware of this and maintaining a deafening silence upon it. Residential tower blocks (of which there are a great many across Ukraine from Soviet times), hospitals and schools bore the brunt of these incessant attacks. Bodies littered town centres and leafy avenues alike. Editors and commentators in the West stared at their computer screens and sat on their hands. No news of these events was to reach any western population if they could help it.
Then we come to more recent events with the operation Russia has now conducted to remedy the silence that western opinion leaders have sought to enforce for these past long eight years of genocidal attacks by their proxies on the people of eastern Ukraine. And, of course the self-same mentality, still rigidly in force of portraying everything Kiev as good and everything Moscow as bad kicked off in even greater earnest than before.
Ukraine, brave little Ukraine was steadily defeating the mighty ogre Russia that had descended upon it in an unwarranted, entirely unprovoked attack. All the abandonment of true journalism over the previous eight years in Ukraine and the one and a half decades of bad-mouthing Putin and Russia were about to pay off.
Ukraine, poor Ukraine they said… let us see your tears, raise your voices and open your wallets, in this black and white war it’s good versus evil and everyone must get on board the hate-Russia bandwagon or be cancelled with a modern day version of the village stocks.
And so it was. And so we heard that plucky Ukraine was achieving victory after victory against evil Russian forces who were perpetrating one vile atrocity after another with Russian generals salivating over killing babies, school kids, doctors and hospital patients using some of the most expensive weapons ever devised. And what purpose was there in that, what possible strategic goal would be achieved in so doing? This was not an answer heard from western mass media. The message was simple and potent, ‘Russians are evil’, end of story.
This has gone on for two months now with endless stories reflecting these memes and tropes. Russia evil. Ukraine saintly. Over and over. Ukraine winning, Russia stalled, running out of weapons, taking enormous casualties, losing ground, being steadily defeated ushering in victory for noble, self-sacrificing, enormously brave little Ukraine.
But wait. What’s this appearing as unwelcome as indications of cancer on an x-ray? The filter seems to be malfunctioning, reality is intruding upon a facade leaking and exposing facts. Russia has surrounded entire divisions of Ukrainian troops and has taken Mariupol and threatens to take Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and the entire Donbass within weeks. It can’t be!
So… what that is positive can be found or made up to make things look more positive for that glorious hero Zelensky and his mighty warriors? A fake sinking of a Russian shop. Good one! A fake victory on Snake Island, scene of an earlier fake that had traction for a while. Throw in a fake school attack… and what about that fake chemical weapon attack we’ve been holding back as the big one… perhaps it’s time?
But none of this will be of any avail. Russia will blithely stroll past these PR stunts, facades and propaganda gambits and continue to grind the remaining Ukrainian army and its associated modern day Nazis to dust. The shock of this inevitable eventuality will knock all the western fantasists back on their heels, those of them who have lost their brains completely and have begun believing their lies will be hardest hit. Those that simply played that vile game to save their jobs and career prospects from detriment will give a cynical sneer and simply get on with the next round of distortions their job entails.
In the wider western world the shock and horror that Kiev was defeated will equal the shock and horror felt… and a large amount of disbelief to boot, that they had been lied to so comprehensively by those claiming to be purveyors of news. The furore will last a week at most before the great western public docilely slips back into its normal routines, switching on their black box and taking in, as if nothing has happened, whatever the next batch of conditioning has to offer them.
But still, for a short while…
THE BUBBLE OF WESTERN PROPAGANDA ON UKRAINE WILL BE SEEN TO BURST