RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 25.03.2023
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.
*** UKRAINE: IS THE MOTHER OF ALL BATTLES ABOUT TO BEGIN? ***
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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
Bakhmut Ukr Control Shrinks, Zelensky Doubts Ukr Counteroffensive; US Forces Syria Attacked.
THE DURAN
Cinematic spring offensive.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
2ND front in East Syria, against US. 2 more countries ready to arrest Putin. Putin body double. U/2
Greek parade. 1999 NATO Serbia bombing. Conflict returns to Syria. Iran condemns Macron. U/1
TECH STRATEGY
Douglas Macgregor - The Russian Rocket Artillery Batteries.
PATRICK LANCASTER
Ukraine Uses Western "Lethal Aid" Against Civilians Again.
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (March 25, 2023).
CGTN
Western propaganda: 'Red China' and Cold War mindset - Facts Tell.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Update on Ukraine, US bases under fire, Switzerland - trust, Belgrade stands strong, Russians adapt.
DIALOGUE WORKS - SCOTT RITTER
This is The Roman Empire Collapsing.
DANNY HAIPHONG - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Col. Douglas Macgregor: China Wants Peace in Ukraine to Avoid COLLAPSE of Belt and Road.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Xi-Putin Summit: New Era of De-dollarization, Eurasian Integration & Multipolarity w/ Ben Norton.
REDACTED
They want Ukraine DESTROYED, and Putin is ready | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
GEOPOLITICAL TRENDS, w/ DR. DAVID OUALAALOU
The Global South is Ignoring the US and joining “Russia-Africa in a Multipolar World.”
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Syria and Saudi Arabia Peace Deal Mediated by Russia | Kevork Almassian.
VANESSA BEELEY
SYRIA updates: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel aggression and the future of the region.
LEE CAMP IN CHINA
U.S. spends billions of dollars inciting hatred, distrust and fears among countries: American writer.
LINE FLUX
BRICS+ | India Ignites Rupee Settlements in De-dollarization Push.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
"Russia WILL TAKE BAKHMUT, IT'S HAPPENING."
Russians Don't Bluff. They're Going To Do Exactly The Way They Said...
Ukrainian Brigades Have Lost 70% Of Their Strength. Russia Has Changed Strategy.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Russia has returned to the Ukrainian lands forever! Zakharova, Ukraine. RU.
CGTN
Live: 2023 China economic roadmap - openness and cooperation.
Diversity in democracy: Scholar on why it's a shared human value.
CGTN EUROPE
China investing heavily in electric vehicle infrastructure.
GEORGE GALLOWAY & LEE CAMP IN CHINA
Biden may have his brain warped.
ASIA QUICKTAKE
HUGE Losses! Report Reveals $1.7 Trillion in Unaccounted LOSSES in U.S. Banking Industry.
RUSSELL BRAND - GLENN GREENWALD
They Are Trying To SILENCE Dissent | Glenn Greenwald Interview.
STEPHEN GARDNER
US Pentagon ORDERS STRIKE As US Soldiers Fall Under Attack.
SABC NEWS
ICC arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin: Sophie Mokoena.
THE GRAYZONE
Aaron Mate at UN: OPCW cover-up denies justice to Douma victims.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Beijing slams the US government for repeatedly suppressing foreign companies.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Biden's new gaffe gives field day to trolls; Mistakes Canada for China I Watch:
Russia ravages 87 more Ukrainian platoons; Over 500 Kyiv's personnel killed in a day.
France on the edge; Stone-pelting, arson in Paris; a million people on streets | Pension Reform row.
ANDREW BACEVICH
Andrew Bacevich on China's Rise as Global Superpower & Decline of U.S. Empire After Iraq Invasion.
PETER SCHIFF
The US Dollar Will Join the Zimbabwe Dollar in the Graveyard of Dead Fiat Currencies.
TECH REVOLUTION
Putin Finally UNCOVERS The HIDDEN Disturbing Truth About Nordstream.
STANSBERRY RESEARCH
China’s Master Plan to End U.S. Dominance: ‘Darkest Scenario’ for Dollar System Warns Middelkoop.
iEARLGREY
Mike and John Go to Depo Food Market.
RUSSIAN NEWS
NATO knows that depleted uranium shells are extremely dangerous! Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain. RU.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO
Authority to use Military Force/Americans killed in Syria.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Ukrainian Offensive, UK Depleted Uranium, Russia-China, AUKUS + More...
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 25th March 2023:
Ukrainian counter-offensive ‘will shock the world’ – US adviser.
Kiev’s forces will be in better shape than they were a year ago, Dan Rice has predicted.
The Ukrainian military is poised to unleash a massive offensive against Russian troops in the coming weeks, which will stun the global community, an American adviser to Kiev's top general claimed on Thursday.
Speaking in an interview with the Ukrainian daily New Voice, Dan Rice, an Iraq War veteran who now serves as an adviser to Valery Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, claimed Russia had encountered serious hurdles while trying to gain control of the key Donbass city of Artyomovsk, known in Ukraine as Bakhmut.
In recent weeks, Russian forces have captured several villages around the strategic logistical hub, with Evgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner Private Military Company, claiming the group was in control of 70% of the city. Last week, Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, described the Ukrainian troops’ situation on the ground as “very poor,” saying they were virtually encircled and suffering heavy losses.
While Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky himself has described the battle as “one of the hardest,” Rice played down those difficulties, focusing instead on adverse weather conditions, and asserting that Moscow had chosen a “terrible time to attack.”
He stated that when the “right time” for Kiev’s offensive comes in the spring, “Ukraine will have a much stronger army, and much better provision than it had a year ago” when hostilities started.
“And you have to go on the offensive to win back positions. And I believe that this spring Ukraine will have a very powerful counteroffensive that will shock the world,” Rice insisted.
Last week Politico reported, citing sources, that the US expected Kiev to start its counterattack in May after receiving more Western weapons. The news outlet said that while Kiev had not made a final decision on its strategy, US officials believe that Ukrainian forces could push into Crimea either by crossing the Dnieper River – a scenario deemed unrealistic – or move from the north in a bid to cut off Russian troops on the peninsula.
When asked to comment on the report, Mikhail Podoliak, a senior aide to Zelensky, expressed frustration that such sensitive information was being disclosed, explaining that any counter-offensive “should be a surprise for the enemy”.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Russian Nuclear Response To Nato. Liman, Bakhmut, Avdeevka. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.25
Pervomais'ke and Kam'yanka. ISW Updates. Bilohorivka. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.03.25
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Bakhmut Endures MASSIVE Russian Assault.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: Avdiivka IN DANGER
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE
Ukraine: military situation Mar 23-24, 2023.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front Update [25 March 2023].
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine until victory.
RYBAR UPDATE
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: March 24, 2023.
M MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine: Day394 [25 March ]. Wagner forces advance in southern Bakhmut.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Wagner Breaksthrough Southern Bakhmut Reaching The Center | Full Front Update 25/03/23.
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 WESTERN WORLD IS REELING TOWARD A GENERAL COLLAPSE
Irresponsible actions stemming from uncontrolled emotions is breaching the boundaries of world stability with the western powers now deep in irrational territory. Their actions mimic the actions of a spoilt child told it cannot have a particular toy and proceeding to wreck everything it can get its hands on.
The entire world is bound to suffer paroxysms of anguish and suffering due to this fit of pique. It is even possible that the madmen and women who exist among the highest echelons of the western political world will unleash the absolute horrors of a nuclear conflict on us all.
This situation brings us into totally unknown waters whereby the Cuban Missile Crisis of the Sixties and the entire Cold War appear little more than storms in a teacup. The calibre of leaders at the time of the Cuban Crisis era were vastly more able and responsible in their bearing and actions than those alive and in power now.
We exist in a miserable time of ranters rather than reasonable beings. The blame for this is difficult to assign and I find myself grasping at straws to some degree in doing so. I can only assume the general shallowness that has taken hold in western cultures in recent times is partly to blame along with naked ambition and the disappearance of many of the stabilising parameters of integrity within politics in general, especially so in the USA and UK.
Add to the above the obvious terror within the U.S. and UK political elite that their patrician dominance over the greater part of the world, enjoyed for so long, is now quite clearly being diluted and if Eurasia continues to rise as it has been doing, this patrician dominance is set to disappear completely.
Just what are the western elites capable of to retain their dominant position? This I believe is the primary question to be answered in these incredibly dangerous moments for humanity. I say this because I see no obvious limits to what they may do. This due to the fact that they consider their power of domination is particularly vital in these years after the events of 9/11. The degree of shock felt due to those events have taken a USA relatively confident of its world status and position and shaken its elites to the core, so much so that the determination to eliminate ALL possible sources of threat, not only from the most obvious sources, but from ALL sources is now completely obvious, at least in my view.
All leaders not in line and in accordance with the concept of total global hegemony in a unipolar world has certainly been listed for overthrow and replacement. Likewise any system of governance that acts in this manner has likewise been listed for the same. Russia, led by a man who has stated quite openly that he and his nation intend NOT to comply with U.S. demands (along with its allies) that they should be allowed to dictate to all the nations of the world regarding right and wrong and what is allowed and what not.
Putin fell foul of the protocols set in place and indeed set in stone, undoubtedly along these lines. As, if you like, the most prominent spokesperson for the independence of nations resisting being supervised, controlled, mastered, monitored and potentially punished by a group of nations led by the USA, he has become by far the most prominent target of the USA’s ire and that of its closest ally, the United Kingdom.
We see the result of this battle of titans now. The USA, with its frequently changing lineup of presidents against one that has remained obstinate in power for much longer than anyone could ever hope for or dream of. Putin, as most must surely know by now, is no easy foe to defeat. He is a wise strategist and has a steely character that is more than a match for others who wield far greater powers than he but who find it difficult to match his wily insight and masterful geopolitical chess acumen. In taking on each and every foe as I say having greater economic and military muscle than him Putin has without doubt transferred his skill in judo to the geopolitical field.
The current crisis regarding Ukraine is Putin’s greatest test yet, his most difficult and complex challenge. The stakes could not be higher, the secure future of his beloved Russia. The security of Russia in perpetuity is a challenge that Putin must win. There will be no backing down. Equally, the western powers see their global domination slipping and are determined to destroy all those who threaten their status as World Policeman.
Despite the risks Putin clearly believes that the task at hand of the denazification of Ukraine is such an existential issue for the entire future stability, economic success, stability of Russia and the general happiness and well-being of Russians that it was simply impossible to be ignored and the fight to ensure those goals could no longer be avoided.
Meanwhile the USA and UK along with the surge in support from Europe against Russia will attempt to maximise the damage inflicted upon Russia, ostensibly because of their outrage at Russia invading Ukraine, an act which they themselves have done to nations on many occasions in recent history with virtual immunity. It must be asked however, if the reasons given earlier in this commentary do not play a part and indeed perhaps a major part, that of the shoring up and if possible the retention of western patrician domination globally both in the political and economic fields.
If the USA, UK and their Europeans win out and Russia is brought to its knees, Putin ousted and the system of governance of Russia replaced will we see stability, peace and the world economy all resume to their earlier levels? Unfortunately not in my view and this because the 9/11 protocols demand that ALL nations must be made to conform to the standard demanded post 9/11, that is that they must comply with the demanded reality that only a unipolar world with the USA and its allies in charge.
China will be the next project for undermining if Russia is defeated along with all the smaller fish such as Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua. If Russia wins out in Ukraine then it and China will stand together to face the next war, already begun to some degree, that will then be seen to begin in earnest.
Certainly not in the public domain.. But via covert channels how did Scott Ritter process the Iraqi military radio messages discussing the trucking of WMD into Lebanon, I.E; to the Bekaa Valley. Later used by the Syrians? Back to current reality- how does the Ukraine conflict morph into post hostilities adjudication of war crimes Russian & Ukraine militaries.
As an aside, EMP/Cyberwarfare threat to US food distribution calls for replacement & rehab of heritage branch line rail net accessing breadbasket districts- likewise Canadian "Wheat Trust" lines.