RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 27.06.2023
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.
*** CAN THE WEST *EVER* BE TRUSTED TO GIVE PEACE A CHANCE? ***
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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
Putin Strengthened After Mutiny Peacefully Quelled, Explains Tactic, Prigozhin to Belarus, US Denies.
THE DURAN
Putin's speech, post mutiny.
ALEX CHRISTOPHEROU of THE DURAN
Putin; Wagner were misled, Russia united. CNN, plan to attack Iran. Biden, US not Involved. U/1
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
MORE U.S. Weapons for Ukraine = $500M.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - ALASTAIR CROOKE
U.S. or NATO Changed Strategy since the Russian Rebellion?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - TONY SHAFFER
Wagner Boss - What will Putin do with Him? / Prigozhin's time limited?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Putin's Next Move - What will influence it? / Russian people want victory.
REDACTED
This is Ukraine's last gasp and Putin has a BIG decision to make.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Media coverage of Russia's "coup" was horrible!
GEORGE GALLOWAY - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Wishful thinking by the West.
TELESUR ENGLISH
President Putin praises Russian military's role in stopping civil war.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive, ZNPP warnings, USA-$500 million-Zelensky, German military on RF border...
RICHARD MEDHURST
Ex-CIA Officer: US Can’t Handle Two-Front War With Russia & China.
SCOTT RITTER
Wagner PMC coup prevented.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Prigozhin wanted Putin's attention.
KIM IVERSEN
Prigozhin’s Dangerous Game Of Extortion. What The Wagner Head Gained and Lost.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Putin Vows to Uphold Deal With Wagner Group, Blinken Backs Biden Calling Xi a Dictator and More.
CGTN
UN expert urges U.S. to apologise for inhuman treatment at Guantanamo Bay.
Xi: We welcome Barbados aboard the 'express train' of China's development.
TFIGlobal
With Russia’s Counterattack, the War in Ukraine has Just Started.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin's Lethal Message To Ukraine After Wagner Mutiny; Russia Pounds Kremenchuk City With Missiles.
Ukraine Surrender in July? West 'Pushes' Kyiv for Talks With Russia After 'Flop' Offensive.
Putin Slams West after Wagner Mutiny; ‘Wanted Russians To Kill Each Other…” | Details:
Russia's Rocket Roar Razes 83 Ukrainian Artillery Units; Over 500 Kyiv's Fighters 'Eliminated'.
Russian Scrambles Fighter Jets after Three British Warplanes 'Detected near Border' | Details:
THE CONVO COUCH
Failed CIA Coup Attempt in Russia? w/ Don Debar.
EMIL COSMAN
(Video) Two Su-27 fighters chased off UK spy plane and 2 Typhoon fighters over the Black Sea.
Denmark holds secret peace meeting on Ukraine. Ukraine Peace talks may start in July.
MINTPRESS NEWS
"I've sold a lot of state secrets" Joe Biden admits.
Mick Wallace exposes the Zelensky regime in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy announced there will be no elections until the war is over.
STEPHEN GARDNER - COLONEL TONY SHAFFER
Biden JUST Made a HUGE MISTAKE.
BORZZIKMAN
Russia went on the Offensive in 'DONBAS' amid the Failure of AFU's Counteroffensive in the South.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russian president thanked the people for their unity and endurance.
China's GDP to grow "faster" in second quarter, says PM.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
PUTIN'S ADDRESS TO THE NATION AFTER WAGNER'S REBELLION. BlackRock ENTERS POLAND, AGAIN.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Russian Marines capture American Oshkosh by the defeat of NATO armoured column in Vremevsky.
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS
Ukrainian 47th Mechanized Brigade Hits a Minefield in Zaporizhzhia.
TECH REVOLUTION
Exodus! Why More Asian Countries Are Suddenly DITCHING The West And Flocking To Saudi Arabia.
LINE FLUX
Why France wants to be invited to BRICS Summit S Africa.
GLENN GREENWALD
BLM to Trump: The Unreported Assault on Landmark Free Speech Rulings.
LIU SIVIYA
REBELIÓN EN RUSIA, ¿Y AHORA QUÉ?: ¿qué ocurrirá con el PMC Wagner? ¿Y con Prigozhin? | liusivaya.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 27th June 2023:
US backs coup attempts whenever it can benefit – Lavrov.
Washington’s reaction to regime change movements differs based on where they take place, the Russian foreign minister has claimed.
The US enthusiastically supports regime change whenever it can benefit from the process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told RT. If a protest movement targets a government more pliant to American interests, Washington will inevitably reject it, the diplomat added.
There have been numerous attempts at regime change around the world in recent years and they were “met with a different response on the part of the US, depending on who was in power and who was trying to carry out the coup,” Lavrov said in an interview on Monday.
“Where the West is happy with the current government, in such situations no protest can be legitimate. But where the government doesn’t reflect the interests of the hegemon and is pursuing the national interests, in those cases we see various unlawful forces are being stimulated [to attack the authorities],” the diplomat added.
An example of such a differentiated approach by the US and its allies was the regime change in Ukraine in 2014 and the conflict in Yemen the next year, Lavrov pointed out. The so-called Maidan coup in Kiev was a “revolt that happened against the legitimate president” and which was marred by “bloody provocations against the unarmed police,” he said.
Ukraine’s democratically elected leader Viktor Yanukovich had been forced to flee violence despite his government and the opposition reaching an EU-sponsored agreement on settling the crisis just hours before that, the diplomat recalled.
“There were no protests against that insurgency from the US or its European allies. So, they just recognized it as a zig-zag in the democratic process,” he said.
“All those years, all our attempts to bring the Ukrainian situation to a political settlement were met with the response [from the Americans and Europeans] that Yanukovich left the country,” Lavrov said.
At the same time, when Yemen’s Western-backed leader Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi “ran to Saudi Arabia” in 2015 from advancing Houthi rebels, “we’ve heard the West saying that he’s still a legitimate president and that he needs to be installed back in Yemen. And only after that the settlement process will start,” he pointed out.
The top Russian diplomat also said there was an attempted coup in Gambia in 2014 and “the White House announced that the US will never recognize the forces that seized power in the country by unconstitutional means.”
Lavrov also mentioned some of the more recent events when the Americans and their allies outright rejected protests against the “puppet” government of Maria Sandu in Moldova, but fully backed the demonstrations by the supporters of former president Mikhail Saakashvili in Georgia, where the West “doesn’t like the current government.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Summer Operations | Bloody Fighting For Meaningless Gains. Military Summary For 2023.06.27
Ukraine Continues Its Counteroffensive Despite Losses. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.06.27
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Ukrainian Offensive Hits Brick Wall.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine front update [27 June 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Defensive Operations.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, June 26th.
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
Massive Fighting Near Antonovsky Bridge l Ukranian Advance.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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.
WILL THE UKRAINIAN REGIME INITIATE A MASS RADIATION EVENT & BLAME IT ON RUSSIA?
Is the Ukrainian regime about to initiate an act of sabotage upon the largest nuclear plant in Europe and then blame it on the Russians? And is the entire panoply of western powers across both the media and political sphere going to assist them in this endeavour?
It may seem so incredible that it can be dismissed outright. Not even Hitler would have been as evil to have contemplated such a thing you may think. Of course Hitler did actively encourage the Holocaust that extinguished the lives of millions and this has provided the benchmark for absolute horror. Might Zelensky and his people be actively building the required propaganda currently with a view to similarly blighting the lives of millions.
As the conflict in the Donbass region moves ever more surely in Russia's favour with the current Ukrainian offensive seen increasingly to have failed with no prospect of anything approaching any future potential for success, the regime in Kiev will inevitably be growing ever more desperate. Is it conceivable that as a last throw of the dice, with its army decimated and unable to mount anything approaching a broadly successful attack on Russian lines that it would do the unthinkable suggested above?
It appears so.
The media framework for such an event is being created by the media outlets of the West faithfully channelling Ukrainian regime claims that Russia is going to sabotage the nuclear plant in the Kherson region that it has held for many months now. This claim is being predicated upon a nonsensical and completely false notion that despite the opposite being the case, that the Russians are losing. Of course this claim has been repeated endlessly and just as falsely since the start of this conflict. Almost nothing else has been reported by the media and political elites of the West since this all began.
The policy of always saying that Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing is just as stridently operated and faithfully channelled across the western world now as it has been since February 24th 2022. What else should the average Joe and Joan in the West believe? Havn't their most eminent politicians been saying so constantly, consistently and forcefully along with every article in their most prestigious newspaper, Hasn't every video on YouTube that they've watched said so along with those programmes that their national TV broadcasters have supplied direct to their living rooms? So, will it be difficult to convince Joe and Joan that the "hateful" Russians have done yet another evil deed?
It must be suspected that it will not. On the contrary, if past reactions of the western populace are to be believed, this will be accepted almost without question. The repeated conditioning of western readers and viewers has been laid so deep within the subconscious of most minds, minds that are too preoccupied by everyday concerns to question them that ultimate suggestibility has been achieved. This is what lies at the most fundamental level on this question that enables the Ukrainians to contemplate and then perpetrate such an outrageously heinous act. They believe they can do it and apart from totally escaping all blame for it with the connivance of both western media and political elites, they can also successfully have the blame shifted to their enemy.
That the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been active onsite at the power plant in question for many months now and that even as recently as three days ago the Russians requested that they do all they can to ensure the safety of the plant, is unlikely to stop the Ukrainians going ahead with their plan it seems.
Russia asks IAEA to ensure Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant security.
June 23, 20232:44 PM GMT+2
Those reading this commentary will undoubtedly think of it if such a situation as described above occurs. By then every political talking head along with their TV lookalikes and talkalikes plus each and every important member of the western establishment and media outlet will be saying exactly the same thing:
"THE RUSSIANS DID IT!"
Please remember these words if you are still in a condition to do so and not dealing directly with the radioactive effects of such an evil act on you and yours.
WILL THE UKRAINIAN REGIME INITIATE A MASS RADIATION EVENT & BLAME IT ON RUSSIA?
