RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 31.01.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 31.01.2023
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.
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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 particularly newsworthy in the western mainstream. Below it you can watch the CNN report which contradicts the lies the Ukrainian regime were concocting at the time to escape being identified as the perpetrator.
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Our apologies for the change to normal update times.
We are presently on the North American continent after travelling from Europe.
Timings for updates will now be on an altered schedule (and may even be missing entirely on occasion) for a period of 3 days.
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (199k subscribers):
Russia's Bakhmut Ring Tightens, UK MSM Admits Russia Close to Chasov Yar, Russia Advances Vuhledar.
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‘The Duran’ (330k subscribers):
Preventing a long war w/Scott Ritter (Live).
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Latest update from Brian Berleic of ‘The New Atlas’ (211k subscribers):
US Threatens Missiles, Jets, and now Crimea, US Sees (Seeks) War with China by 2025.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (157k subscribers):
Poroshenko, 8 years to build an army. IMF, 2023 Russia economic growth. Ukraine wants 200 F16s. U/1
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‘Scott Ritter’ (81k subscribers):
Thanks but no tanks. Travesty.
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ (86.5k subscribers):
U.S. Not Prepared to take on Russia / Col Doug Macgregor.
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'The Grayzone' (257k subscribers):
Zelensky to sell Ukraine off to Blackrock, Goldman Sachs.
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Hamilton 68 list of Russian bots exposed as massive fraud.
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Ukrainian refugees too racist for liberal UK hosts.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (40.3k subscribers):
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR ON RUSSIA'S OFFENSIVE | UKRAINE ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE.
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U.S. Tour of Duty’ (25.5k subscribers):
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 41: Ask the Inspector.
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‘The Jimmy Dore Show’ (1.13 million subscribers):
“Many More Body Bags” Needed To Bring Down Putin – Says Psychopath Fmr U.S. Official.
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‘George Galloway’ (242k subscribers):
Sixty years after the #CubanMissileCrisis we’re back on the eve of destruction.
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#America has drowned scores, millions in blood and still sees itself as in the right.
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INTERVIEW: Young people are not being told of how #Russia’s sacrifices enabled their freedoms.
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'HistoryLegends' (230k subscribers):
BAKHMUT Facing Operational ENCIRCLEMENT.
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‘Redacted’ (1.66 million subscribers):
BREAKING: Putin's next move is DEVASTATING, and NATO isn't ready | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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'Info Defense' (131 subscribers):
US/NATO do not care how many Ukrainians will die? Is Senator Richard Black right?
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‘Garland Nixon’ (43.9k subscribers):
THE NEOCONS EXECUTED A SELF CHECKMATE IN UKRAINE.
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‘iEarlGrey’ (114k subscribers):
Kiev Threatens Iran "UKRAINE WARNED YOU." Ukraine Retreats. Turkish Anti-Western Sentiments At Peak.
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Tuesday 31st January 2023 - LIVE.
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U.K. Faces RECESSION as Russian Economy GROWS Says Latest IMF Report.
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‘Kim Iversen’ (506k subscribers):
From Russia, With the Truth: Paul Manafort Reveals All.
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Israel Blatantly Attacks Iran. Could Russia Be Baited Into Another Proxy War With US?
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‘Djuki San’ '(38.3k subscribers):
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (January 31, 2023).
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'Schiller Institute' (64.8k subscribers):
Chas Freeman: We Must Change America to Avert War.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.12 million subscribers):
Putin’s Army storms Bakhmut, Vuhledar; Russian Howitzers destroy Ukraine hideouts | Watch:
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Putin's Army breaches frontline at Pavlivka; Russia's new plan to force retreat of Zelensky’s men?
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'Madness': EU Nation blasts NATO for poking Putin | 'Don't Want To Be Circus Dog'.
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PM Modi gets support from Putin over BBC film; Russia blasts UK Broadcaster's 'information war'.
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Pak competing with India to forge military ties with Russia? Bilawal in Moscow meets Lavrov.
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Russia warns NATO as Ukraine gets Western weapons; 'You cannot change...' | Details:
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NATO nation Germany red faced; Putin's supporters collect funds for Russian Army | Report:
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‘ShanghaiEye魔都眼’ (126k subscribers):
Belarus' Lukashenko arrives in Zimbabwe for state visit, along with dancers and cheering crowds.
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'True inFo’ (79.3k subscribers):
Dedollarization! Countries around the world are reducing use of dollars in international payments.
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‘MintPress News’ with Lee Camp (33.8k subscribers):
Canada Is Part of The US War Machine.
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‘Reports on China’ (39.8k subscribers):
How CNN & BBC trick you about China: Selina Wang and her failed exposé.
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‘Democracy At Work’ (295k subscribers):
Dangerous Moment for U.S. Politics - Chris Hedges & Richard Wolff on Economic Update.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 31st January 2023:
France won’t rule out jets for Ukraine.
Western countries are increasingly discussing the prospect of sending warplanes to Kiev.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the idea of sending fighter jets to Ukraine had not been “excluded,” as Kiev ramps up its campaign to pressure the West into donating combat aircraft to its military.
Asked about the possibility of transferring jets to Kiev’s military, Macron told reporters that “nothing is excluded in principle,” according to France’s AFP news agency. The president added that Kiev would be forbidden from using French jets to attack Russian soil.
Macron was speaking after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who told reporters that his government saw “no taboo” around sending US-made F-16 fighters to Ukraine, but admitted it would be a "big step.”
For nearly a year, the idea of sending any jets – let alone Western-designed ones – to Ukraine was considered too escalatory by the NATO powers. In a matter of days, however, the idea has now gone from a “high risk” hypothetical – in the words of the Pentagon last March – to a proposal under serious consideration.
According to various media reports, the UK has dismissed the idea of delivering its Typhoon warplanes as “too escalatory,” while the US is discussing the idea of handing over its planes “very carefully” with the rest of the NATO bloc, amid pressure from the military industrial complex and its partners in the Pentagon. Poland is willing to transfer its F-16s if other NATO members follow suit, while Germany has – for now – declared a Ukrainian request that it hand over its Tornado fighters “out of the question.”
The debate over sending jets to Ukraine appears to be following the same trajectory as the months-long discussion over tanks. By the time France, Germany, the UK and US all agreed to donate tanks this month, the decision had been telegraphed for weeks through increasingly concrete government-sourced reports in the Western media.
Ukrainian officials believed throughout this process that their Western backers would eventually cave and announce tank deliveries. The country’s foreign minister ridiculed Germany’s public recalcitrance, insisting that Berlin would “do it anyway,” long before the formal announcement was made.
Kiev appears equally hopeful about receiving aircraft from the West. Posting on Facebook last week, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council, Aleksey Danilov, shared a video of American F-16s along with the caption “soon in the sky of Ukraine.”
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 31st January 2023 : France won’t rule out jets for Ukraine
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (83.1k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 31.01.2023
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.28k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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NWE WAR REPORTS (29.8k subscribers):
UKRAINE WAR MAP | 23rd-31st Full Frontline update | Russia launches new Offensives.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (52.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (17.6k subscribers):
FULL FRONT UPDATE: Kherson, Vuhledar, Bakhmut, Siversk, Kreminna Explained.
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FRONTLINE UPDATE - Vuhledar and Bakhmut.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (56.9k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine F-16's and the Crimea.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: January 30, 2023.
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.39k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION WAR UPDATES (52.6k subscribers):
Full Front Update 31/01/23.
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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
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THE WESTERN DICTATORIAL POWERS BLINDLY SEEK GLOBAL CONFORMITY
Those who run the western world are determined to interfere to the maximum extent they can with no ethical or moral limit to their actions with the single-minded goal to transform all recalcitrant nations to their mirror image.
No appeals to their ‘better nature’, powers of diplomacy, common sense or reason will have any effect upon their determination. Those who are currently standing in their way will be targeted relentlessly to destruction if necessary to fulfill the above goal.
The western powers are acting as an empire-building force with dictatorial levels of hubris and relentless activity to achieve their goal of a uniform world in terms of governance. All nations will be forced to accept the mode of governance that they use or they will remain in the cross hairs of western sources of power both politically and militarily. Intelligence services, that have been working on the goal of global uniformity in conformance with western desires for decades, are now more active than ever in the world war that is currently underway.
The only way the western powers can be stymied in their attempts to secure their goal of global conformance to their needs is by the robust countering of these ambitions by all means possible. Both China and Russia are at the forefront of this effort and not only by political and military means. China and Russia, through building trading and financial networks divorced from the influence of the western powers are in effect waging a necessary war against them to preserve their own individual and sovereign nationhood in the face of threats to them.
The USA is of course at the forefront of the assault upon the rest of the world where it does not accede to its demands. Assisted by the United Kingdom and most of the European Union elites they form a formidable force with which to threaten, coerce, damage and destroy nations they have targeted for regime change and transformation to their requirements.
As Professor John J. Mearsheimer has pointed out, the surge to achieve global conformity to western needs went into high gear in the ‘unipolar moment’ as he calls it, when the Soviet Union collapsed. In that time the power of the USA and its allies/proxies was at its height and the goal of spreading ‘liberal hegemony’ appeared to be eminently achievable. However, we have been slipping as a world incrementally one step at a time toward a multipolar epoch where the powers of the western elites are steadily diminished.
What we are seeing now, with the western powers using Ukraine as a tool against Russia and Taiwan against China is a desperate attempt to re-engineer and re-establish the unipolar moment and thus put back on track the goal of establishing global uniformity of governance in the western model.
There can be and will be no turning back from the goal of undermining all non-conforming governance systems by the western powers. They cannot conceive of allowing those nations who do not conform to their wishes being left alone to determine their own future course. Western elites, whether political or within the mainstream media sphere are united in seeking to do whatever is necessary within the nations they have targeted to bring about conformity to western needs and desires. There is not a glimmer of hope that they will retreat from their determination to do whatever they can to shake, destabilise and destroy the target nations until they conform. As a secondary goal they will be weakened, even to the point of collapse as remains the secondary goal for Syria and which remains the goal in many other nations such as Venezuela, Iran, Cuba and indeed all others that have not yet conformed to western requirements.
In recent months we have seen the blowback from the attempts by the West to achieve a significant weakening of the Russian Federation. For nearly a year now attempts have been made in successive waves to hit and destroy Russian institutions from the financial to the cultural and from the economic to the personal. Almost all such attacks have failed and many of them are now having a cumulative effect on western economies and populations. The western powers have in effect metaphorically-speaking shot themselves multiple times in the foot and to such a degree that they risk being unable to stand.
Thus both Russia and China are strengthened in their attempt to remain in ever-greater extent invulnerable to western attacks seeking to undermine and transform them. Meanwhile, with western nations becoming weaker and both Asian and Eurasian nations adhering ever closer to each other along with many nations in the global south (many who have aspirations to join BRICS) the probability of a robust and self-sustaining multipolar world free of western threats, attacks and violent military attempts to undermine them becomes an ever more tangible aspiration.
If a fully multipolar world with fully independent, sovereign and inviolate nations eventuate from the mix of economic dynamics now in play then the final nails will be hammered into the coffin of western elite aspirations to dictate how these newly, fully sovereign and inviolate nations will govern themselves in perpetuity. At that point the era of the World Bully/Policeman of the collective West will finally be over.
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