RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.06.2023
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.
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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
Ukr Offensive Slackens After Losses; Pause Rumours; Rus Advance Kupyansk; China Steamrolls Blinken.
THE DURAN w/ LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
The big counteroffensive pause? w/Larry Johnson.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
In Ukraine War Putin also Taking on the U.S.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Counteroffensive becomes Russia offensive. Budanov haunts. Poznan coup camp. Zaluzhny yoda. U/1
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHIL GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
Ukraine War & Taiwan - Biden Team Mixed Messaging w/ Phil Giraldi fmr CIA.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - ALASTAIR CROOKE (FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR)
Western Elites, Ukraine & Madness.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counter-offensive, EU to allocate 50 billion to Ukraine, Blinken's failed visit to China...
SCOTT RITTER
Abandoned Ukraine peace agreement & Kiev plans to strike Crimea with NATO weapons.
Putin reveals abandoned Ukraine peace agreement | Kiev plans to strike Crimea with NATO weapons.
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS
Ukraine Russian War, Front Line Report for June 19, 2023 Failed Ukrainian Offensive.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
"Screw Them..." Putin Mocks US & NATO, Says Ukraine "Can't Fight For Long" With Western Arms.
RUSSIAN NEWS
I'm afraid it will be too late when they realise it! Zakharova, Russia, Ukraine.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Russia's Secret Weapon Repelling Ukraine's Counteroffensive.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
"The Russian Army is infinitely better today."
Disaster for Ukraine.
BREAKING POINTS
Blinken Declares NO Taiwan Independence In China.
REDACTED
So it was all a LIE! Putin just EXPOSED them | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris.
MORRIS INVEST
Putin and China just scored a DEVASTATING blow to the U.S. economy and we’re screwed.
EMIL COSMAN
Britain's act of thievery. To confiscate Russian assets and handed over to Kiev. World is watching.
West sent Ukraine broken weapons. The "Allies" quarrel among themselves, a sign of losing the war?
Russia accuses Kyiv of working on a "dirty bomb." The West seem suspiciously unconcerned. Why's that?
ANDREI MARTYANOV
TALKS USA - UKRAINE & NAVY.
BORZZIKMAN
'You Better Run'! PENTAGON is Horrified by the New Tactics of the Russians.
JIM RICKARDS
A Timeline of the Ukraine War: How Did We Get Here?
The Russian Miracle: 📈 Thriving Economy Despite International Sanctions.
TRIBUN TIMUR OFFICIAL
🔴 Ka-52 helicopter crew detected the movement of enemy and used guided missiles.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Guess to Whom Israel Is Selling Its Tanks. 🤔 SHOCKING? 🤔
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'Missiles Waiting For...': Putin Ally Warns Of Attacks On Western Arms Units In Ukraine.
Russian Marines Storm Ukrainian Army Trenches in Novodonetsk | Daring Attack Caught On Cam.
Russia Vs NATO War Over Crimea? Moscow Issues A Direct Warning To West Amid Ukraine War | Watch:
U.S.-Led West To End Military Support To Ukraine? Russian Spy Chief's Big Claim Amid Fightback.
Putin Pounds Zelensky's Base Kyiv With Shahed Drones | Massive Russian Strikes Across Ukraine.
Kyiv’s Howitzers Destroyed | Russia Blocks Ukrainian Sabotage Groups | Putin’s ‘Active Offensive’.
Russian Rockets Tear Down Huge Ukrainian Artillery Ammo Units; Moscow Mocks Kyiv's Gains claim.
Russia's Onslaught Triggers Major Blame-Game; Now Ukraine Says West Donated 'Broken Weapons’.
Putin’s War Has Emptied West’s Arsenals, Admits NATO Chief; Says “Stocks Need To Be Replenished”.
China's Xi Rebuffs Blinken's Key Request To Avoid Taiwan 'Miscalculation' I Watch:
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
"HUNDREDS OF BELARUSIANS ARE TRAINING IN POLAND TO OVERTHROW LUKASHENKO" FROM BRITISH TIMES..
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Biden Just BLINKED on Taiwan.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
US Congress plots to save dollar dominance amid global de-dollarization rebellion.
THE CONVO COUCH
Anti-China Rhetoric Amps Up As Beijing Meets Up With Taliban To Further Banking Ties.
CYRUS JANSSEN
France to Join BRICS? This Changes EVERYTHING.
SMART SILVER STACKER
Nine Central Banks Dump SWIFT & The Dollar | Prepare For Dedollarization.
TELESUR ENGLISH
BRICS partnership enlargement to be discussed at upcoming summit in South Africa.
KATIE HALPER
Russiagate Reveals “Moral Bankruptcy Of Liberalism” - Ajamu Baraka.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 21st June 2023:
Israel speaks out on Ukraine lionizing Nazi collaborators.
Kiev treats as heroes people who wanted Ukraine to have no Jews, Poles and many others, ambassador has pointed out.
Israel disagrees with Kiev’s honoring of WWII-era perpetrators of the Holocaust as national heroes, but the dispute should not pose a threat to Israeli support of the Ukrainian government, the country’s envoy there, Ambassador Michael Brodsky, has said.
The senior diplomat addressed the issue on Saturday in an interview with Iton TV, an Israeli Russian-language online outlet. Brodsky said in Israel the perception of historic figures, including Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevich or Andrey Melnik, was very different than that in Ukraine.
“Those people supported the ideology of Nazism. They wanted to see Ukraine without Jews as part of their struggle for independence, as well as without Poles, communists and probably many others,” he mused.
As it fights Russia, Ukraine may yearn for national heroes as its society seeks a national identity, the ambassador reasoned. Israel disagrees that those Holocaust perpetrators deserve the treatment they’re accorded, but there is not much it can do about it, he added.
“There are Bandera streets in different cities of Ukraine, as they are in other nations, for example, in the US,” Brodsky pointed out.
The three individuals named by the Israeli official were senior figures in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The political and militant movement allied itself with Nazi Germany in the hope of riding its military invasion of the USSR to create a monoethnic, independent Ukraine. Berlin did not agree with the plan.
OUN fighters were involved in mass killings and other atrocities. Shukhevich in particular served as an officer in Nachtigall Battalion, a German military unit that had ethnic Ukrainians as its footsoldiers and that played a key role in the massacre of Jews in the city of Lviv in 1941.
“I believe this process cannot realistically be stopped,” Brodsky said of the lionization of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. “And I don’t think we should condition our support of Ukraine, our aid to Ukraine on Ukraine’s stopping renaming its streets and calling [the OUN figures] heroes.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Russian Spring | Another Meat Grinder In Liman? Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.06.20
The Russians Strike Back. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.06.20
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Russian Counter Attack Begins as Ukraine Pauses Offensive.
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
Russians counter attack in Orikhiv [20 June 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
Russia Launched Surprise Attack In Multiple Areas | Russia Advance In Southern Front, Marinka & More.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Holding the Line.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, June 19th.
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
Massive Russian Counterattack l Russian Forces Capture Ukrainian Control Territories.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Russia Forces Turn To The Offensive.
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.
WHY IS VLADIMIR PUTIN SO HAPPY?
How many have watched any public address by President Putin of Russia recently? Those who have may have remarked to themselves, and even to others, on how happy he appears, how calm and composed, how comfortable in his skin he is, and confident in his style of address.
Why might this be? Shouldn’t he be a little solemn considering that the western world is dead set against him? Not to mention that Russian soldiers are dying on the battlefront. Not nearly as many as Ukrainian soldiers, but certainly some. Of course there have been recent moments when he has been solemn indeed, as when he met with some of the wives and mothers of the fallen. But in recent situations where he has met other world leaders and given speeches, he has looked supremely well, happy and of a very cheerful disposition. Again, why might this be?
Over the past 15 months the leaders of the western world along with their allies have done their best to isolate Russia. More than that they have attempted to bring down its financial system along with its economy. Floods of western nations have taken the decision, or have been convinced, to abandon Russia and have no further dealings with the Russians. Cultural ties have been broken, broken also were educational links, certain authors, artists and other important personages have been made persona non grata, just because they are Russian. The wealth of many Russians who held money overseas has been frozen, yachts and homes have been confiscated and in general anything Russian has been subject to censorship, destruction or a ban.
Yet Mr Putin smiles on, apparently completely unfazed by any of these developments. He gives speeches with aplomb demonstrating no faltering whatsoever in his grasp of issues, detailed knowledge of facts and figures and with a mind obviously as sharp and at the same time, as playful as ever. And what about all these ailments he is said to have. Where are the symptoms? Why is it that he appears to be as ‘fit as a fiddle’ as they say? How can this be? Surely the countless articles, radio and TV programmes including those of the 24 hour news cycle who are depicting him as the world’s most evil monster are getting to him? Apparently not.
Every now and then a famous figure from western TV news channels is granted an interview with him. Every question implies he is engaged in wrongdoing of one kind or another. His answers are treated with an air of scepticism not to say cynicism, essentially insulting him even if it only implicitly. Does he get annoyed or irritated by this insulting behaviour? He does now and then show a flash of irritation, yes… but mostly due to the interviewer (interrogator) jumping in and interrupting him when he has not quite finished the answer he was given. But otherwise he is as calm as could be and always with that unassailable twinkle in his eye. This is surely not normal?
Why is this man, the object of all the West’s scorn and invective so apparently unaffected by it and indeed seems to grow happier by the day?
Here are the answers that most fit the bill in explaining this ‘Putin Phenomenon’. He is happy and contented quite obviously because things are going his way. It is because when it comes to the main things in his life, those things that mean most to him at the deepest possible level, everything has begun to fit perfectly in place according to his plans. Those plans are endlessly speculated about in the West, each assertion more off-target than the last. Newsprint and screen time products are required in a continual flow and like Trump in the USA, Putin in Russia generated viewers, readers and clicks. Without fail. But Putin’s plans are no secret. He has laid them on the table quite openly.
Plan 1
To make a normal neighbour of Ukraine, a neighbour that is neutral and no threat to Mother Russia, a nation without a trace of extremism where the military is virtually ceremonial and where NATO has no place.
This plan is going well, despite what westerners may continually be told. If it was not going well we would certainly see it in his face and manner.
Plan 2
To do all he can to unite the nations of the global south (and elsewhere such as Latin America) to a point where the USA and its allies can no longer bully, threaten, invade and undermine them. United to neutralise and dispose of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency and so undercut the ability of the West to weaponise the petrodollar through its illegal sanctions policy. The plan hinges of the unity that will give birth to a fully multipolar world, a world where the USA becomes just another power among many, a world where agreements not acts of aggression prevail.
Plan 3
To do all he can to build a strong and successful Russia where living standards are constantly on the rise due to a stable economy where Russian products of all kinds (not just oil and gas) find a ready market among friendly nations. To see Russia secure and accepted among all the nations that have discovered a newfound ability to shuck off American dominance who have lost their fear of annoying that nation into hurting them. In short to be among friends where each friend has the back of all others, among friends who engage with each other in trust, who share with each other and find ever more ways to strengthen the bond between them. This is what he plans for Russia.
These three plans, not set in any particular order, are all, to one degree or another, coming to fruition and can be seen by all (except perhaps westerners) including Mr Putin to be doing so.
These three successful outcomes so important to Russia are the three primary reasons why the man known as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is SO very happy these days.