RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.10.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 16.10.2023
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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*** TIME RUNNING OUT FOR UKRAINE SURVIVAL AS VIABLE STATE ***
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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:
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ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of the DURAN
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JEFFREY SACHS
China: A Recipe for the World.
THE DURAN
Derivatives and the coming collapse w/ Alex at Reporterfy (Live).
DANNY HAIPHONG
Richard Wolff on How BRICS Destroyed the US and Europe's Currency Hegemony.
Palestinian Journalist DESTROYS Israeli Talking Points, Explains Roots of Al-Aqsa Flood.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Battlefield Ukraine - Update, Middle East Escalation, Israel's neighbours were forced to back off...
GARLAND NIXON
NEOCONNED - PHONEY NARRATIVES AND IRRATIONAL PLANS IN UKRAINE AND ISRAEL.
ALEXEI MARTYANOV
Awareness Issue.
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EMIL COSMAN
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BORZZIKMAN
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GEORGE GALLOWAY
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RICHARD MEDHURST
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French Media Too Afraid To Criticise Israel.
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ANDREI MARTYANOV
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Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 16th October 2023:
West ‘tired’ of Ukraine, Zelensky’s finance minister admits.
Kiev’s donors are increasingly distracted by domestic problems and tensions in the Middle East, according to Sergey Marchenko.
Securing financial support is becoming more difficult for Kiev as the country’s Western backers shift their focus to domestic matters and geopolitical tensions, the Ukrainian finance minister told Reuters on Saturday.
Speaking on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Marrakech, Sergey Marchenko said Kiev is having to make “twice the effort right now to convince our partners to provide us with support compared to the last annual meetings” in spring.
“I see a lot of tiredness, I see a lot of weakness among our partners, they would like to forget about the war but the war is still ongoing, full-scale,” the minister said, referring to the conflict with Russia.
Among the factors diverting Western attention from Ukraine, the official named the hostilities between Palestinian militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, and the Israel Defence Forces. Many fear the conflict could spread to the broader Middle East, disrupting the entire global economy, as the region is a crucial supplier of energy and a key shipping hub.
Marchenko also pointed to next year’s elections in the US and Europe as another distraction. He stressed that “a geopolitical shift and internal political context in different countries” was making allies’ governments less focused on supporting Ukraine.
Kiev currently needs Western financial support to cover most of its $43 billion budget spending requirements in 2024.
“We already have some commitments, like $5.4 billion from the IMF program, and we expect commitments from Japan and United Kingdom, and of course, we rely on our key partners and allies the United States and European Union,” Marchenko said. Ukraine is also looking for ways to restructure its international debt and secure new financing, the official said, without providing a timeframe for when discussions with private creditors could begin.
Earlier this week, Marchenko wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that Ukraine had received a tranche of $1.2 billion in aid from Washington, bringing US support for Kiev this year to $10.9 billion. The EU promised Ukraine €18 billion ($18.9 billion) in aid this year, and Brussels is currently working on another €50 billion support package to be distributed from 2024 to 2027.
Also, Belgium announced earlier this week that it would transfer to Ukraine tax revenue worth €1.7 billion generated from Russian assets frozen by the Euroclear clearing house. The step was discussed in Marrakech, and according to a post-meeting statement from G7 central bank governors and finance ministers on Thursday, it may be replicated by other Western states, despite legal concerns. Marchenko said the decision shows that for Western states, handing Russian assets over to Ukraine now “sounds like a plan.”
Russia strongly opposes using its frozen assets as aid to Ukraine, arguing that it goes against international law, and calling it outright “theft.”
West ‘tired’ of Ukraine, Zelensky’s finance minister admits.
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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.
First posted 5th August 2016.
UKRAINE : HISTORY OF A CRISIS (IN +/- 50 TWEETS)
Maidan smashed the lynchpin that held west & southeast #Ukraine together. That lynchpin was faith by the people in the democratic process.
Swastikas & other Nazi symbols had been rife in west #Ukraine even before Maidan. The Nazi collaboration still infects today's generation.
People in S-E #Ukraine knew very well what #Maidan heralded. They are good canny people, they know their history & they know Nazi mentality.
People in S-E Ukraine knew about US reps like John McCain on Maidan. Later they found out about Pyatt & Nuland plotting who should take over.
#Maidan terrified the people of #Crimea & S-E #Ukraine. Reasons? To do w/ the ugly Nazi-legacy mentality latent, now dominant, in the west.
The Nazi-legacy thugs of west #Ukraine call the people of S-E Ukraine 'Moskals', it's a highly derogatory name. Basically it means Russians.
Because the Nazi-legacy thugs of west #Ukraine hate #Russians with a passion they also hate what they call the 'Moskals' with a passion also.
Only when you understand the history of #Nazi collaboration in Ukraine do you see why the people of S-E were SO afraid about Maidan rioting.
Not only was S-E peoples' insurance lynchpin of Ukraine's democratic process destroyed it was destroyed by Nazi-legacy thugs who hated them.
Crimea:
#Crimea. Truth is any Russian troops there would have had to use guns to STOP people of Crimea coming in their millions on referendum day.
Western politicians & their compliant press & media even to this day, use the misdirect of the believable lie on Crimea, a Russian invasion.
The Crimean people understood status quo of Kiev rule could not stand after Maidan smashed it. So they acted accordingly to assert freedom.
Now For S-E Ukraine To Decide:
S-E Ukraine. It was up to the people of the S-E to decide how badly they felt the need to be free of #Kiev, of west #Ukraine dominance.
The Main Events Leading Up To The Current Conflict:
2014. It began w/ scuffles, crowds gathered & fists flew. Strange men with military bearing were seen, were they mercenaries, Blackwater?
Thugs were being bussed in to S-E Ukraine & scenes were violent before locals drove them back to their transports and forced them to leave.
Out of the maelstrom at beginning of 2014 (how far back it all seems now) the occupations of administrative buildings in SE #Ukraine began.
A month or 2 went by after occupations. Then Kiev sent first exploratory forces into S-E Ukraine. This first attempt at intimidation failed.
2014. Another week or two in S-E Ukraine passed pretty peacefully. There was no trouble & both new republics planned a referendum for May.
The May referendum in S-E #Ukraine was an astounding success. The people queued round the block for hour after hour in order to vote.
Result of referendum in SE #Ukraine in May was perfectly clear. The people wanted autonomy, to run their own affairs free from fear & #Kiev.
It was shortly after the May 2014 referendum that #Kiev sent a larger force, one that stayed, created checkpoints & had a murderous effect.
The crucial event in 2014 were first deaths at the hands of the Ukraine army. This signaled to the occupiers that Kiev must be confronted.
Soon after #Ukraine force attacks & kills checkpoint members the spokesmen for the republics announced that the #Kiev forces must leave.
2014. Kiev gunmen entered an administrative block & killed people inside. Shortly after this the full-on resistance to Kiev forces began.
Another sign that #Kiev must be resisted was the horror of the #Odessa atrocity where 48 young people asking for autonomy were slaughtered.
In Odessa on that day savagely evil thugs without a trace of conscience burned & clubbed at least 48, and without doubt many more, to death.
So a grassroots resistance to Kiev's savagery began with just 100s in the resistance but soon added to by selfless volunteers from #Russia.
But it wasn't just Russians selflessly volunteering that turned it around. Local men applied in droves & still to this day form the majority.
This was not a conflict S-E Ukraine chose. The people of S-E had no intention to provoke conflict, their struggle was for safety & freedom.
It was #Kiev that provoked conflict in S-E #Ukraine, not the population there. West #Ukraine barbarism, sadism & terrorism came to THEM.
For four terrible months Ukraine forces shelled S-E #Ukraine villages, towns & cities. Ukraine forces fired mortars at random toward homes..
2014. Most often #Ukraine army hit tall buildings with their random shells, apartment blocks, schools, hospitals. All urban areas were hit.
It looked impossible to resist the cruelty of Kiev, but resistance grew & fought back. Many vehicles & armaments from Ukraine were captured.
Ukraine forces began to be out-maneuvered & troops caught in planned 'cauldrons' & then eliminated completely. The resistance became strong.
Some thought shd be given to a proportion of Ukraine troops who died in the cauldrons. Cannon fodder, forced to serve under various threats.
The resistance grew more confident & in stature. Their experience in depth plus their motivation & bravery paid off. Win after win after win.
Coming To Present Time:
We approach recent events & the increasing parity between the two sides. The resistance was woefully outnumbered & outgunned as this started.
Before Minsk ratio of men/materiel was around 4 to 1 in favour of Ukraine forces over resistance. Asynchronous balance of power approached.
With recognition they could never win came the concession Russia had been demanding from the start, that Kiev sit down with resistance reps.
The 1st ceasefire was drawn up. This far from pleased everyone on resistance side. Many were disappointed & felt they shd have kept fighting.
Others felt unsure what was best course of action but put some faith in knowledge of the strength of gains that had been made against Kiev.
Many also of mind no one shld die unnecessarily. It is certain many would have died on both sides no matter HOW successful the resistance.
The first ceasefire failed. Now we have the 2nd which seems in imminent danger of failing too. Ukraine forces are shelling civilians daily.
More than enough have died in S-E #Ukraine to create a permanent scar on top of existing scars. #Kiev holds no dominion now & is despised.
The people of S-E Ukraine nurture a Russian culture that is their heritage & try to build their communities & welcome back those who fled.
The goal of autonomy remains, of self-rule. Ukraine's terrorist forces MUST leave. Their ugly presence is as DEEPLY unwelcome as cancer.
Donetsk & Lugansk Republics will remain & will be cherished. They were hard fought for & won. There is no turning back. Old Donbass survives.
