RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 08.01.2024
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.
*** SUPERIOR RUSSIAN FIREPOWER STEADILY NEUTRALISES UKRAINE ***
“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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.
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COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
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Ukraine has lost 500,000 troops – ex prosecutor general.
Kiev must come clean on the true scale of the losses, Yury Lutsenko insists.
Ukraine’s leaders should frankly admit that they have lost 500,000 service members since the start of the conflict with Russia, and that the monthly casualty rate is at around 30,000, former prosecutor general Yury Lutsenko has said.
President Vladimir Zelensky's goverment could convince reluctant citizens to join the fight by publicly admitting the heavy losses on the battlefield and declaring that the country’s very existence is in jeopardy, he believes.
Ukrainians “must know how many have died, and then all debates about the mobilization will be settled,” he added.
Speaking to the country's media on Wednesday, the former official proposed a number of steps to address the draft-dodging and corruption that is hampering the country’s conscription efforts.
He suggested that new legislation must be introduced by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, the country’s defense minister, and top army general to emphasize the seriousness of the situation.
“They should say how many Ukrainians have died. I know that this news will be received badly. But there is no other way to bring out of the comfort zone millions of those who hide behind bogus stories that everyone can serve except me,” Lutsenko said.
According to Lutsenko, this “shock” would lead to large queues at recruitment offices, as had occurred in February 2022. Another important measure, according to the former official, would be the campaign to send members of the Ukrainian elite to the frontline.
“The army should not be all workers and peasants. Everyone should fight for Ukraine,” he stated, arguing that this would encourage ordinary citizens who he said have a very strong sense of justice.
Zelensky said in December that the Ukrainian military had asked him to mobilize another 450,000 or 500,000 soldiers to make up for battlefield losses. Later that month, the government introduced a mobilization bill proposing to lower the recruitment age from 27 to 25 and eliminate exemptions for some categories of disabled people.
The initiative comes after Ukraine launched a large counteroffensive in early June, which failed to gain any substantial ground. Moscow has described Kiev’s losses as catastrophic, estimating them at around 160,000 since the start of the push. Ukraine, however, has been reluctant to officially publish data on its casualties.
Ukraine has lost 500,000 troops – ex prosecutor general.
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Russia shoots down two Ukrainian jets – MOD.
A close air support jet and a fighter were destroyed by air defenses on the Ukrainian side of the frontline, the military said.
Russian forces have downed two Ukrainian warplanes in the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said on Sunday.
The ministry identified one as a Su-25 close air support plane, which it said was shot down by Russian air defense not far from Dnepropetrovsk (known as Dnepr in Ukraine), some 150km north of the frontline. The other jet was a Su-27 fighter, downed not far from Krivoy Rog, about 140km west of Dnepropetrovsk, officials added.
The Russian military also said it had intercepted 14 missiles fired from US-supplied HIMARS and Soviet-era Uragan missile systems, as well as six Ukrainian anti-ship Neptune rockets. According to the statement, Russian forces have also destroyed 38 Ukrainian drones across the frontline over the past 24 hours.
In total, Russia has taken out 567 Ukrainian warplanes, 265 helicopters, and 10,526 drones since the start of the conflict in February 2022, the Defense Ministry claimed.
In October, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Moscow’s forces had received new military systems, which at the time allowed them to shoot down 24 Ukrainian planes in just five days. He did not provide further details.
However, TASS news agency later reported, citing sources, that Russia had used an S-400 Triumph air defense system, which has a range of up to 400 km. It was also said to have been equipped with active homing heads, and to have been operating in tandem with an A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft.
Russia shoots down two Ukrainian jets – MOD.
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Russian Strategic Missile Forces to Launch Seven ICBMs in 2024 - Defense Ministry.
Russia and the United States remain the world's two nuclear superpowers, with their stockpiles accounting for about nine-tenths of all strategic weapons on the planet.
Russia's Strategic Missile Forces plan to conduct seven launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in 2024, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
"This year, the Strategic Missile Forces plan to conduct seven launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Over the past five years, the Strategic Missile Forces have carried out over 20 launches of ICBMs as part of flight tests of advanced missile systems and exercises in managing the Russian armed forces," the Ministry said in a statement.
Amid heightened tensions stemming from the US pullout from numerous treaties meant to safeguard against a strategic escalation and after Ukrainian attempts to attack a Russian nuclear bomber base, Moscow has pledged to inform its counterparts in Washington of all strategic-level tests ahead of time to avoid a nuclear escalation.
In December, Russian Strategic Missile Forces Commander Sergei Karakaev said that Russia and the US had agreed to provide one another with at least 24 hours of advance warning ahead of the test launch of any ICBMs or submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).
Russia's nuclear deterrent - consisting of ground-based mobile and silo-based missiles, sub-launched missiles and payloads deliverable by strategic bombers, has undergone a multi-trillion ruble modernization over the past decade. The program has included replacing older legacy missiles with Yars and Sarmat ICBMs, RSM-56 Bulava SLBMs and Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missiles, and ship and air-launched strategic weapons with a complement of nuclear-armable, maneuverable, hypersonic missiles like the Zircon, Kinzhal and Avangard.
Russia's nuclear doctrine forbids Moscow from using nuclear weapons of any sort unless the country comes under attack using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, or in the event of an act of conventional aggression so great that it threatens the country's survival. The US - the only nation in the world to have ever used nuclear weapons against an enemy, presently has no such restrictions on its strategic doctrine, with the latest Nuclear Posture Review allowing for preemptive attacks even against non-nuclear armed adversaries.
The US walked out of the Anti-Ballistic Treaty in 2002, scrapped the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, and threatened to allow the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) to expire without renewal in early 2021. Russia suspended its participation in New START last February, citing attacks by NATO-backed Ukrainian forces on an airfield basing Russian nuclear bombers, but has pledged to continue abiding by the agreement's terms so long as the US also does so. New START is expected to expire in 2026, with the US previously indicating that it wants to include China's nuclear arsenal into any future agreement. Beijing has balked at such proposals.
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USA
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EUROPE
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THE BALKANS
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DPRK (NORTH KOREA) <-> SOUTH KOREA
North Korea warns South of ‘baptism by fire’.
The ‘safety locks on triggers’ of Pyongyang's military have been lifted, Kim Jong-un’s sister has warned.
Pyongyang is ready to respond with force to any “foolish miscalculation” by Seoul, Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has said.
On Friday, Seoul announced that it was evacuating Yeonpyeong Island after North Korea fired 200 artillery shells off the west coast. It said the projectiles landed in a maritime buffer zone established between the neighbors under a 2018 deal, from which Pyongyang later withdrew.
South Korea reacted to what it called a “crisis-escalating situation” by launching 400 shells of its own into the sea, in the same area. According to Seoul, it was followed by the North firing another 60 shells in the buffer zone on Saturday.
In her statement on Sunday, Kim Yo-jong, who is a senior figure in North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, denied the latest claim by the South. Pyongyang “didn’t fire even a single shell into the relevant waters” on Saturday, she insisted.
“We conducted a deceptive operation in order to assess the real detecting ability of the ROK (Republic of Korea) military gangsters,” the North Korean leader’s sister claimed.
Instead of firing shells, Pyongyang’s forces were “detonating blasting powder simulating the sound of 130mm coastal artillery for 60 times” in order to see how Seoul would react, she added.
Kim Yo-jong said that because of its “hysteria” and “arrogance” the South Korean military “had no choice but to swallow the bait we threw” and prove its incompetence. She recalled a saying that “a coward is frightened of his own shadow.”
The North Korean leader’s sister said she was “very pitiful” for the citizens of South Korea, who entrusted their security to “blind people.”
She warned Seoul against similar “misjudgement” in the future, arguing that the South is inviting “irretrievable misfortune” with its conduct.
“Let me make it clear: the safety locks on triggers of our military have been lifted… If there is even a slight provocation, our army will immediately launch a baptism by fire” for South Korea, Kim Yo-jong stated.
READ MORE: US and South Korea hold live-fire drills near North’s border
The current round of escalation between Pyongyang and Seoul followed live-fire drills by US and South Korean mechanized units near the border with the North, shortly before New Year. Pyongyang called the exercise “reckless war maneuvers” and promised to take countermeasures.
North Korea warns South of ‘baptism by fire’.
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
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AFRICA
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NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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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 WORLD HAS CHANGED - THE DICTATORIAL POWERS OF THE WEST ARE FAILING & DYING
There was a time when it was almost true that Britannia ruled the waves. That day is of course long gone. Similarly, the time when it seemed that the USA could act as the world’s warder and policeman, is now ending. In both cases there was a relatively simple scenario facing these two in the times when they saw their empires of dominance stretching on forever. But every wave crests and falls, every civilisation yet known has traversed the same path, a steady rise to a peak of power and influence before an inevitable decline and progressive loss of both. We now see the empire of North America rapidly descending that slope toward its ever weakening grasp on power and influence. And it will not rise again.
Like an old man whose dotage informs him that he is not what he used to be, the instinct in the first instance is to use all the power that’s left him to resist. But his strength fails more with each passing day until eventually, after all his struggles have been to know avail, he acknowledges reality at last and submits himself to the inevitable. The world has long since stopped making the sense it once did. What were once simple tasks are no more, each once familiar area of control becomes more confusing by the day until the moment when all around loses meaning and he withdraws into himself ready to face the end.
The world that the political and media elites of the USA used to see as their fiefdom, playground and even backyard is no longer that easily cajoled, controlled, manipulated and easily threatened into line place. The old certainties are gone, the levers of power have seized up and the threatening words that got others to obey fall on deaf ears. What is worse, these others have begun to laugh in mockery and behind that laugh is an intent to repay the misdeeds they suffered under all the years they can remember. The political and media elites of the USA with their concepts of superiority and an egotistical exceptionalism where they looked down their noses at their supposed inferiors and sought to manipulate them to their benefit have had their day. And now it’s over.
The world has become too complex for the simplistic solutions the U.S. and UK elites found convenient and easy to apply. Others have become far too powerful and interconnected to allow these two dictatorial elites any continuance of their brutal rule. And it’s payback time, some may call it karma. Whatever name is given it, whether quarantine or strait-jacket, the time when the power of these two (and their EU minions) could act in unbridled fashion and ride roughshod over others, is over. As they fall into their dotage as elites and try to continue acting as if they were sprightly young powers they will quickly be disabused of these ideas. Their arrogance, still displayed will be met with a sneer and mockery. And their foolish, age- old impudence, will then be enthusiastically punished as it is only right it should be.