RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.12.2022
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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Lead feature:
'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (201k subscribers):
RUSSIA STORMS BAKHMUT With DAVID SACKS!
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Latest update by Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ (195k subscribers):
US to Send Patriot Missiles to Ukraine, CNN Says...
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Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (187k subscribers):
Russia Storming Bakhmut, Marinka Encircled. FT, Ukraine Short of AD Missiles, China Slams Merkel.
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'InvestoPads' (191k subscribers):
You're Being INSTRUCTED Not To Notice This. | Jeffrey Sachs Last WARNING.
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‘The Duran’ team with Brian Berletic and Gonzalo Lira.
Zelensky's three step peace plan w/Brian Berletic from The New Atlas and Gonzalo Lira (Live).
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours (150k subscribers):
SBF arrested. Putin cancels Q & A. Scholz ready for business with Russia, once it's defeated. U/1
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'Opiniono' (1.1k subscribers):
Ukraine-Russia War Headlines - 54.
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‘FINANCE MAIL’ (16.1k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Russia Ukraine War Will End On Russian Terms !!! Russia Is Prepared To Do Anything.
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‘Douglas Macgregor’ (49.1k subscribers):
The Complete Destruction of Ukraine is Unavoidable.
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‘Garland Nixon’ (37.5k subscribers):
SCOTT RITTER WARRIOR UPDATE EPISODE 12 - Bakhmut Encircled - Donbass Falling?
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ (200k subscribers):
Ukraine Brigade EVACUATES BAKHMUT, Russian Troops MOVE IN.
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‘Master B editor’ (61 subscribers):
⭕ Bakhmut is a Meat Grinder : CNN Ukrainians are taking heavy losses. Bakhmut is a meat grinder.
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‘Brian Berletic of The New Atlas’ (195k subscribers):
Russian Gains in Bakhmut, Ukraine Overextended, & US Lectures India.
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‘La Vanguardia’ (1.42 million subscribers):
Ukrainian soldiers live a hell of freezing mud and fire in the trenches.
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‘CRUX’ (1.64 million subscribers):
Brutal Fight For Bakhmut | Why Wagner Fighters Are So Keen To Hold This Key Town | Ukraine War.
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‘HistoryLegends’ (193k subscribers):
Russian Assault Units Have Entered BAKHMUT!
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‘Firstpost’ (1.5k subscribers):
Ukrainian Troops Suffer as Russia Rains Fire on Bakhmut | Fight for Donbass | Russia Ukraine War.
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.01 million subscribers):
Russia pounds Ukraine with Iskander missile; Zelensky's men hit by World's biggest artillery gun.
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (4.95k subscribers):
Col Douglas Macgregor: U.S. gives Ukraine OK to drone strike Russia.
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'MintPress News' (30.6k subscribers):
Wyatt Reed & Lee Camp: Journalist Targeted By Ukraine.
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'Info Defense' (33 subscribers):
What? Ukraine feeding propaganda about Russian atrocities to soldiers to encourage them the fight?
‘Itapirkanmaa2’ ’(24.6k subscribers):
A Kiev regime M777 howitzer gets destroyed by a "Lancet" drone.
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'TeleSUR' (192k subscribers):
Serbian president denounces violation of international law by the West and Kosovo.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (114K subscribers):
Thousands rally in Belgrade to support Kosovo Serbs over arrested police rift with Pristina.
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'Tara Reade' (1.98k subscribers):
Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy & Dan Kovalik: The Politics of The UN | Tara Reade.
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'BORZZIKMAN' (116k subscribers):
Pentagon and NATO are Speechless! How did General Surovikin Manage to Turn the Tide of the War?
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'Itapirkanmaa2' (24.6k subscribers):
Each dot represents 100,000 USD of US taxpayers' money..
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 8th December 2022:
American instructor reveals Ukrainian frontline death rates.
Mozart Group says dire media reports about the situation in Artyomovsk/Bakhmut are true.
The Ukrainian military is taking massive casualties in the battle for Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut by Kiev), which is the lynchpin of the Donetsk frontline, the US Mozart Group has revealed to Newsweek.
The retired Marine who heads the group, which claims charity status but also trains Ukraine’s military, alleges that some units are seeing casualty rates of 70% and more.
With the Ukrainian military tightly controlling media access to the front, Mozart is notable for regularly posting photos and videos of what is going on, “which is an absolute annihilation of Ukrainian frontline towns to an extent that I have not seen in the media,” Andrew Milburn, who was a colonel in the US Marines, told the magazine.
“Bakhmut is like Dresden, and the countryside looks like Passchendaele,” he said, in reference to a German city destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII and an infamous mud-soaked WWI battlefield, respectively.
“It's just a horrible and miserable place.”
The few references to Artyomovsk in Ukrainian media, both legacy and social, have described the battle as a “meat grinder” with many dead and wounded, though official casualty figures have not been released.
The Russian Defense Ministry has not posted detailed claims of Ukrainian casualties in Artyomovsk, but has reported on advances both north and south of the city, threatening its encirclement.
Ukrainian units training with Mozart “have been taking extraordinarily high casualties,” Milburn told Newsweek. “The numbers you are reading in the media about 70 percent and above casualties being routine are not exaggerated.”
Ukrainians are struggling to get new recruits into the line to replace the losses, Milburn admitted, noting that about 80% of the people sent to Mozart for training have never fired a weapon before.
While admitting Mozart is giving Ukrainian troops combat training, Milburn insists his “volunteers” have a “higher emotional intelligence” and don’t actually engage in the fighting. Mozart is a registered tax-free charity “that's doing mostly humanitarian work,” he told Newsweek. Their name is a deliberate counterpoint to the Russian Wagner Group, a private military company heavily involved in the fighting around Bakhmut.
MAPPING CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (76.2k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 13.12.2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (50.5k subscribers):
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 292 (12/12): Russian forces enter residential area of East Bakhmut.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (27.9k subscribers):
Ukraine War Map | Wagner Infantry Actively Storming Bakhmut.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (14.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
Ukraine [13 Dec 2022] 'Today'.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (55.7k subscribers):
Russia Ukraine War Dec 12th.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’ via‘Itapirkanmaa2’ channel. (24.6k subscribers):
RYBAR: Highlights of Russian Military Operation in Ukraine on December 12, 2022.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
Ukraine [13 December]''Today''.
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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.
