RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 14.12.2023
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.
*** GLOBAL BEGGAR ZELENSKY FINDS EVER FEWER BENEFACTORS ***
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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
Zelensky Delays Kiev Return, Putin: No Ukr Peace Until Rus Fulfills Objectives; Ukr Defence Crumbles.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Impeachment probe. Ursula wants VICTORY. 90% Russian army in TATTERS. Elensky reveals Orban question.
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS w/ LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Zelensky road show. Putin Q & A w/ Larry Johnson.
THE PRINT
Balance shift on Ukraine battlefield as Washington squabbles,Europe tires, Putin talks from strength.
CGTN
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses nation, holds annual end-of-year press conference.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Zelensky again went to beg with an outstretched hand in Washington! Zakharova, Russia, Ukraine.
NEUTRALITY STUDIES
The Ukraine FACTS The West Doesn't Want To Hear | With Nicolai Petro, Ruslan Kotsaba, and A. Duleba.
GLENN GREENWALD
Zelensky, Live on Fox, Reaffirms His Own Tyranny.
Zelensky Begs DC for Money—While Torturing US Journalist Gonzalo Lira.
Billionaire Bill Ackman's Deranged Campaign Against Israel Critics.
GARLAND NIXON
WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER - ZELENSKY OUT OF MONEY AND TIME + ISRAEL THREATENS HEZBOLLAH.
REDACTED
NEW BREAKTHROUGH in Julian Assange case! Could be devastating for CIA.
Zelensky just got EMBARRASSED by U.S. Congress in shameful money grab.
RUSSIAN NEWS
The balance of power is rapidly changing not in favor of the West! Lavrov, Russia, Ukraine.
PATRICK LANCASTER
Ukraine War Underfire: 19 Civilians Injured by Rockets & Cluster Bombs In Frontline City Of Donetsk.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Large-scale missile strike on Ukraine, Zelensky lies Again, Middle East, Guyana, Russia - Gold - Oil.
KIM IVERSEN
World Laughs As Zelenskyy Begs Washington For Cash.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
MENU: Ukraine? It’s over.
INTERVIEW: Isolated Israel.
Taxi? More like private jet for Zelensky.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Zelensky says Hungary's Orban has no reason to block Ukraine's EU bid amid accession summit upcoming.
EMIL COSMAN
The Russians capture Marinka. Ukrainian General denies. Let's analyze the claims.
"Revolution" within EU. Austria joins Hungary, blocks 12th EU sanctions package against Russia.
Zelensky is smacked by 2 more EU countries, besides Hungary. Block Ukraine EU accession talks.
Ukraine explains why Russia attacked NATO in Ukraine. "Reaction time to missile attack."
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
RUSSIA'S FOREIGN DEBT DOWN AND OIL EXPORT PLUNGE. 100 PROMISES OF THE NEW POLISH GOVERNMENT.
BORZZIKMAN
It's Mind-Blowing! Russian TERMINATOR-2 Broke Through The Defense Of The Ukrainian Army In AVDIIVKA!
DEFENSE TV
Russian T-90M Tanks Receive Advanced ERA Armour to Counter Ukraine's Drones.
THE HAGUE PEACE PROJECTS
Time to Talk: Peter Emerson, director of The deBorda Institute on the dangers of majoritarianism.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Bolivia signs $450m lithium deal with Russia.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Russia's Black Sea Fleet holds consecration of Colours ceremony for ships.
SEAN FOO
Ukraine Defeat Fear, Argentina Currency Collapse, China’s Economy Angers The West.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
China Criticizes U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Program.
RICHARD MEDHURST
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: Interview with Israeli Historian Prof Illan Pappé.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Suppose Netanyahu asks for American Ground Troops?
FIRSTPOST
Hamas Fighters Ambush Israeli Troops in Gaza,Fierce House-to-House Battles On.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'Gaza Situation Catastrophic': Putin Blasts Israel's War; Reiterates Support To Palestinian Cause.
Israeli Soldier Dies After Al-Qassam's Missile Hits IDF Tank In Gaza; Toll Mounts To 116 | Watch:
Jordanian Group Hacks Israeli Defence Forces’ Website; Threat Message Posted | Gaza War.
Israeli Soldiers 'Walk Into Hamas Trap' In Gaza; IDF Strikes Lebanon After Hezbollah Attack.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Israel’s Never-Ending Wars on Its Neighbours & What Comes Next, w/ Ghadi Francis.
Global Fury as Israel’s Gaza Genocide Rages and US Blocks Ceasefire.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHIL GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
Biden’s Indifference to Israeli Slaughter.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
CARNAGE AT CHRISTMAS - MOATS with George Galloway Ep 299.
NOVARA MEDIA
Israeli Troops Film Themselves Trashing Palestinian Homes.
Israeli Ambassador’s Mask Off Moment.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Senate Passes Massive $886 Billion NDAA, US Has No Plans to Restrict Israel's Military Aid, and More.
VANESSA BEELEY
Palestinian genocide is a joint US/Israel project - with Scott Ritter and Vanessa Beeley.
UK Metropolitan Police doxxing anti-genocide protesters in London marches.
The ZARA boycott, Yemen attacking Zionist economy and the censorship of free speech in the UK.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
US NSC ‘continuously’ Evades Questions over Biden Comments on Israeli Bombing.
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Unrwa chief says Gaza is ‘a living hell’ during Global Refugee Forum in Geneva.
BBC reports on the increasing deadliness of Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank.
SINO SPHERE
China And Vietnam Expose U.S Efforts to ‘Mess Up’ Indo-Pacific Region.
THE HILL
Biden Impeachment Inquiry FORMALLY OPENED, James Comer To Joe: SHOW US THE EMAILS.
STEPHEN GARDNER
Trump Court Case Takes MAJOR TWIST.
THE HILL
GLENN GREENWALD ON RISING: TikTok CENSORED My Show PERMANENTLY With NO EXPLANATION.
GERALD CELENTE
BE A GOON, MARCH TO GOVERNMENT TUNES.
THE HILL
SHOCK REPORT: 40-45% Gaza Strikes Are 'DUMB BOMBS', IMPRECISE, Per U.S. Intelligence.
MINTPRESS NEWS
Gaza Genocide Day 69 & Media Complicity.
THE HILL
Hunter DEFIES GOP; Zelensky Leaves EMPTY HANDED; Impeachment INQUIRY Vote.
BREAKING POINTS
PSYOP: IDF Floods Israelis With Misleading War Footage.
TECH REVOLUTION
Germany In Trouble. Economic Nightmare Deepens! Europe Braces For Worst.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
Shock For Israel. Iran Launches Ai Drones.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Mali Opens An Investigation Into Terrorist Groups After Accusing France Of Involvement.
Three African Countries Unite To Defend Each other Against The Enemy; Forming A Federation.
COOL BUZZ TV
W.RUTO & J.MALEMA “Why Should We Look For Dollars When Africa Have It Own Currency.”
ACTIVISM MUNICH
Das Ukraine-Narrativ bricht völlig zusammen.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
SCOTT RITTER
Brutally unreralistic..
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 14th December 2023:
Fact-checking Zelensky’s claims that Ukraine is achieving frontline ‘successes’.
RT reviews Ukrainian leader’s account of Kiev’s gains in the conflict and compares it to Russian statements and open-source data.
Kiev’s forces haven’t lost a single village to Russia and have actually secured victory in the Black Sea, destroyed the Wagner group and continued to move forward, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed during a joint press conference with his US counterpart Joe Biden.
Zelensky and Biden met in the Oval Office on Tuesday as the Ukrainian leader came to Washington in an attempt to persuade US lawmakers to greenlight more military aid for Kiev. This was after a bill intended to provide the country with $60 billion in assistance was blocked in the US Senate last week, as Republicans demanded tougher immigration control on the US southern border in exchange for approving Ukraine aid.
Zelensky’s charm offensive included an account of Kiev’s “successes” in the fight against Russia, though he stressed that these accomplishments were “not easy.” RT has compared his claims to statements by the Russian military and officials, and to data available from open sources.
Zelensky: “Our forces are advancing.”
In late November, the president himself announced that the Ukrainian military would switch from attacking to building fortifications, acknowledging that Kiev’s much-hyped counteroffensive, which began in early June and aimed to cut Russia’s land bridge to Crimea, had ended without success. According to Russian Defense Ministry estimates, Ukraine has lost over 125,000 troops and 16,000 pieces of heavy equipment in failed attempts to advance over the past six months.
Earlier this week, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Colonel General Aleksandr Syrsky, said that the Russian military “doesn’t stop conducting offensive operations along the entire front.” The situation for the Ukrainian defenders “remains difficult,” he acknowledged.
Zelensky: “We’ve gained victory on the sea. We’ve destroyed Russian ships. We drew the remnants of their fleets to Russian territorial waters.”
Ukraine did attempt dozens of attacks on the facilities and vessels of the Russian Black Sea fleet in Crimea, with the use of naval and aerial drones as well as Western-supplied cruise missiles. However, most of these were successfully repelled, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.
The worst damage occurred in September’s missile strike on the port of Sevastopol, when three out of ten Ukrainian missiles made it through. Local authorities reported 24 wounded in that attack, while the defense ministry confirmed that two ships in the port’s repair docks were damaged.
Zelensky: “Our guys destroyed 20,000 Wagner mercenaries... The nucleus of this terrorist organization doesn’t exist anymore.”
Then Wagner Group’s chief, the late Evgeny Prigozhin said in May that the private military company had lost about 20,000 men during its fight for the strategic Donbass town of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). However, he also said at least 50,000 Ukrainians had died in fighting for the town.
The group ceased to exist after Prigozhin and some of its members launched an armed mutiny in June, taking control of a Russian military headquarters in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and sending an armed convoy towards Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that, in line with the deal that allowed for settlement of the crisis, the Wagner troops involved avoided prosecution and had a choice of signing contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, of retiring, or of moving to Belarus.
Zelensky: “Russia was not able to seize any part of our territory, any village or any town.”
The Ukrainian leader made a similar claim during his appearance on Fox News, but in that instance clarified that he was only talking about 2023.
Russian forces focused this year mainly on repelling Ukraine’s counteroffensive. However, in January, Wagner troops took over the town of Soledar in DPR and several other villages in the area as part of its advance on Artyomovsk. The battle for Artyomovsk became the largest in the conflict and ended with Russian victory in May. It was confirmed by both Wagner itself and the defense ministry in Moscow, and acknowledged by Western media. But Zelensky himself never conceded publicly that the city was lost. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, several villages have also been captured after its forces switched to offensive actions in recent weeks.
Zelensky: “We have shown [that] no Russian missiles can outdo the powerful American Patriot system.”
In May, the Russian Defense Ministry said that a precision strike by a hypersonic Kinzhal missile had destroyed a US-supplied Patriot air defense system in Kiev. Ukraine denied the claim but an unnamed American official later told CNN that Washington had been assessing damage to the hardware to determine whether the battery needs to be replaced or if it could be repaired on site by Ukrainian forces.
Fact-checking Zelensky’s claims that Ukraine is achieving frontline ‘successes’.
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* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL UPDATE
The Fall | Putin Unleashed Kinzhal | The Russian Breakthrough Continues. Military Summary 2023.12.14
Kiev Under Missile Attack | The Russians Cleared Hills Near Horlivka. Military Summary 2023.12.14.
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THETI MAPPING UPDATE
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NEW WORLD GEOPOLITICS
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WEEB UNION MAPPING UPDATE
Complete Destruction | Russia Escalates Offensive Operations.
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.
RUSSIA, THE WEST, NATO & UKRAINE: FIGHTING A RERUN OF WWII
All sides in this conflict can be seen to be fighting a re-run of the last war, the second world war, and some of them are obviously doing so quite blindly regarding the motivations and intentions of the other side.
For Russia the mentality they are fighting mirrors that of the Nazis, a foe that Russians have never been allowed to forget and with good reason. The western powers and their media, heavily invested in their struggle deny that the Russians have any cause to feel as they do. However, as the coup took place in Kiev and in the aftermath a significant number of these news outlets (including the BBC) reported on the dangers that those who looked back in honour of Hitler’s Nazis. That streets in western Ukraine were named after those Ukrainians who worked with the Nazis against Russia and all else including the proliferation of Nazi-like symbols and swastika tattoos were facts soon cast aside as irrelevant. Not so to the Russians.
On the side of the two successive Ukrainian regimes since the coup of 2014 those the Russians called Nazis were extremely useful as they were the fiercest of fighters and most willing to shell the civilian populations of the Donbass region who they looked upon as Russians to be eliminated by one means or another. These regimes who took over the political system of Ukraine that had previously elected presidents and governments who reflected the entire population of Ukraine saw their task as fighting only for the Ukrainian-speaking population. Those who spoke Russian and any source that communicated in Russian were to either be banned or heavily suppressed and if possible, driven out of existence.
For the best part of a decade the Russian-speaking majority in eastern Ukraine were relentlessly shelled by the Ukrainian army who had incorporated the fierce Nazi-loving west Ukrainians who had been at the centre of the insurrection and coup in Kiev. To those bombarding the apartment blocks, schools, hospitals and town centres of the Donbass the people there were subhumans, Moskals as they called them. Russians to be eliminated whether man, woman or child. None of this was reported by news outlets of the West now firmly behind the demonisation of Russia as the cause of all evil.
To NATO this is a war to survive. Left without any true reason to exist after the cold War ended there were too many reasons for its high command to wish to stay relevant and continue to exert its power. Nation after nation joined the alliance that had been formed to counter the Soviet Union. Closer and closer to Russia’s borders it came despite protestations among many high-ranking officials across the West. Due to the insistence of George W. Bush despite protestations by Angela Merkel and others it was announced at the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 that both Ukraine and Georgia would join. As the man who now heads the CIA said at the time, this was the reddest of red lines for Russia.
For the USA and Britain a mythology of greatness, superiority and exceptionalism has developed since WWII which has imbued their reaction to the refusal of Russia to accept Ukraine in particular joining NATO. The fervour of their support for Ukraine and negation of any semblance of good reason in Russia’s stance echoes the kind of rhetoric seen during the fight against the Nazis. The same attitude of their being totally good as well as their Ukrainian allies and the Russians being totally bad is clear. This is ‘war mode’ when only a black and white analysis of a conflict is allowed and any deviation from this mode is shunned and attacked. That Russia might have reason to act as it is doing and reasonable intentions, is anathema. No middle ground is allowed to exist.
The blindness of the rhetoric used by the western powers and their media along with the complete absence of diplomacy augers very ill as anyone can see. No quarter is to be given, no understanding applied, not even a thought process that might generate understanding. Nothing.
In Zelensky we see a mirroring of Hitler’s stance throughout WWII, especially in his disallowing any retreat by his army from Stalingrad when it was caught in the firm grip of the Russian winter. That army suffered every possible extreme and subsequently surrendered. Frostbite ate at their extremities, food was scarce, to the extent that any flesh was eaten, including human flesh. Out of fuel and ammunition their only hope for survival was to surrender or be captured. Hitler refused all requests that they be allowed to retreat. The same mindset can be seen in Zelensky throughout this war. Anti-surrender squads who are in fact death squads force the Ukrainian troops to remain at their positions no matter what as Zelensky voices fantastical tales of victory.
The parallels are many with the second world war, however in the case of being on the right or wrong side there is no such parallel. The western powers have chosen to aid the oppressors of the Russian-speakers of the Donbass, they have sided with the modern day Nazis who have acted since 2014 with the utmost criminal cruelty. They have provided weapons to men who bear swastika tattoos and who have sworn to effect a genocide against all Russians, including those of the Donbass. Instead of allying themselves with the powers of good against Hitler’s Nazis they have allied themselves with those who honour Hitler and his Nazis and who seek to perpetrate a genocide in the Donbass.
Watch any documentary series on the second world war and you cannot help to recognise the similarities between then and now. A Russia defending herself as she defended herself during WWII is a target for western neocons, little better than Nazis themselves who seek to undermine and break her up. Is it any wonder that Russia has chosen to engage her enemies and is now resolutely seeking to defeat them as a matter of existential necessity? There can be no doubt that as in the second world war that Russia will prevail. She must, the alternative is to see the Russian nation undermined and broken in pieces. No Russian is going to stand for that. Neither to live in fear. The lessons of WWII, or ‘The Great Patriotic War’ as the Russians call it are too fresh and the warnings too loud to ignore.
Therefore, these various sides in this war, the Russians, NATO, the USA, UK and EU, and the Russia-hating western Ukrainians are locked in this struggle to the death. Only one side can win and the other be totally defeated and humiliated. As with WWII the side that has most to lose will fight with most vigour and the side with largest and most powerful resources will win. That side is clearly Russia and as with WWII those with the most self-sacrificing and noble aspirations and cause worth fighting for will win. And that side, without a shadow of a doubt, is Russia.