RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.01.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.01.2023
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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THE ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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 particularly newsworthy in the western mainstream. Below it you can watch the CNN report which contradicts the lies the Ukrainian regime were concocting at the time to escape being identified as the perpetrator.
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Our apologies for the change to normal update times.
We are presently on the North American continent after travelling from Europe.
Timings for updates will now be on an altered schedule (and may even be missing entirely on occasion) for a period of 11 days.
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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (196k subscribers):
Bakhmut Operationally Encircled, Russia Advance Zaporozhye; West Talks Tank Deliveries Ramstein.
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Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’ discuss geopolitical events of the day. (327k subscribers):
Real world leaders avoid Davos WEF.
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Latest update from Brian Berletic of 'The New Atlas' (206k subscribers):
US, Allies Send More Weapons to Ukraine in Absence of Real Solution.
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'The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong' (39.1k subscribers):
Is NATO Turning the Tide? Ukraine Conflict Update with Brian Berletic.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours (155k subscribers):
Freeland, beat Russia boost profits. Elensky, Putin green screen. Economist, Erdogan must go. U/1
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (209k subscribers):
Zelensky's regime is "dissapearing".
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We have lost the plot.
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‘The Jimmy Dore Show’
Zelensky DELIBERATELY refused peace with Russia just days before Feb 24.
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‘Info Defense’ (99 subscribers):
RT report - Soledar.
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'iEarlGrey' (110k subscribers):
MAJOR COLLAPSE South of Bakhmut. Russian MoD Report Numerous Gains. CIA Secret Meeting With Zelensky.
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‘U.S. Tour of Duty’ (22.9k subscribers):
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 38: Ask the Inspector.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.09 million subscribers):
Putin's 'secret army' defeats Ukrainian forces? Wagner Group claims control of Klishchiivka.
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NATO allies fight each other over Ukraine; Putin's war divides Western allies.
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The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (38.8k subscribers):
FROM CRIMEA TO TAIWAN, THE US IS PREPARING FOR WWIII | THE DURAN REACTS.
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‘Douglas Macgregor Col’ (35.4k subscribers):
Scott Ritter - Ukraine Should give up the Donbass.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ (209k subscribers):
PUTIN LIBERATES Kleshcheevka, Bakhmut STRONGHOLD.
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‘Opiniono’ (1.22k subscribers):
Ukraine-Russia War Headlines - 78.
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Ukraine-Russia War Headlines - 77.
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’RealTruthTalk’ (5.62k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Talks Ukraine/Russia War, China/Taiwan & More.
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (5.61k subscribers):
Mike Krupa: Poland-Ukraine & Russian Conflict.
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‘The Duran’ (297k subscribers):
Q & A: Command upgrade.
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.09 million subscribers):
Watch dramatic footage of Russian Su-25, GRAD firing missiles at Ukraine troops | Watch:
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'Dangerous': Russia's stark warning on Crimea to Ukraine as U.S. warms to aid attack | Details:
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‘MintPress News’ with Lee Camp. (33.5k subscribers):
Raided by The FBI for Being Socialist.
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‘Master B Editor’ (247 subscribers):
Ukrainian reserves supposed to advance but are destroyed near Bakhmut — ex-Pentagon advisor.
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‘VRevelations’ (566 subscribers):
Zelensky's Bizarre Speech At World Economic Forum In Davos: "Putin Might Not Be Alive".
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‘Info Defense’ (99 subscribers):
Ukrainian citizens accuse Zaluzhny of over 140K losses of Ukrainian soldiers.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 20th January 2023:
Wagner Group claims important gain in Donbass.
Klescheevka is under Russian control, the private military company’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin says.
Wagner Group troops have captured the strategic village of Klescheevka in Russia’s Donetsk Region from Ukrainian forces, the head of the private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin has said.
“One can safely say that the settlement of Kleshcheevka, which is one of the important suburbs of Bakhmut (called Artymovsk in Russia), has been completely taken under control by the Wagner PMC units,” Prigozhin claimed in a statement distributed by his press service on Thursday.
But while Kleshcheevka has been reportedly “liberated,” intense fighting continues around the settlement, with “the opponent clinging on to every meter of land,” he pointed out.
The Russian Defense Ministry hasn’t yet commented on the situation in Kleshcheevka.
“Contrary to some opinions that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fleeing Artyomovsk, this is not the case,” Prigozhin said, but still expressed confidence that Artyomovsk, which is a major Ukrainian stronghold and logistics hub “will be captured.”
Klescheevka is located around 9km southwest of Bakhmut. The village, which was populated by just over 500 people before the conflict, had been heavily fortified by the Ukrainian military.
The claimed capture of Klescheevka follows the Russian takeover of the key town of Soledar last week as well as several other settlements in the area as part of the operation to encircle Artyomovsk.
The Russia Defense Ministry praised “the courageous and selfless actions” of the Wagner Group’s strike teams during the battle for Soledar, but pointed out that victory was achieved by a “mixed group of forces,” including aviation and artillery units.
Late last year, the US Department of Commerce labeled the Wagner Group “one of the most notorious mercenary organizations in the world” and put it on the Military End User List, which could potentially restrict the company’s access to any technology made with American equipment anywhere in the world.
READ MORE: Russian MOD praises ‘selfless’ Wagner fighters
Prigozhin ironically reacted to the move by saying that it will definitely make it tougher for the Wagner Group to get ammunition and repair the M-777 howitzers and other US-supplied weapons that its troops have allegedly seized.
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 20th January 2023 : Wagner Group claims important gain in Donba
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (80.7k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 20.01.2023.
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.02k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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NWE WAR REPORTS (29.6k subscribers):
UKRAINE WAR REPORT | Battles move close to Bakhmut's Main Supply Road.
UKRAINE WAR MAP | Early reports suggest New Russian Southern Offensive Yielding Immediate Results.
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No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DPA War’ MAPPING CHANNEL (12.8k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (28.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (17.5k subscribers):
Russia-Ukraine War: Bakhmut IN DANGER, Klishchiivka Captured.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (56.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: January 19, 2023.
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.39k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION WAR UPDATES (47.3k subscribers):
Russian Forces Capture 2 Villages and Pushes Further Towards Orikhiv | Zaporizhzhia Front Update.
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Full Front Update | Fighting Ongoing All Over The Front.
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New Offensive | Zaporizhzhia Front Update & Analysis | Bakhmut Front Update.
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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.
