RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 11.05.2023
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.
Please note: We will be in various locations in Southern India for the next two weeks. This will result in variations to the timing of updates and quite possibly their total absence on some days. Our apologies for this alteration to and possible loss of daily updates.
*** WHEN IF EVER WILL THE UKRAINIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE START? ***
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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
Russia 742 metres Bakhmut, Prigozhin Complains; Zelensky: Offensive Postponed, Zaluzhny Skips NATO.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
UK Storm Shadow. Biden hunts Russians. Georgia must ban Russian planes. Elenksy Eurovision snub. U/1
THE DURAN
Zelensky to BBC, Ukraine needs more time. Zaluzhny, NATO no show. Syrsky, busy in Bakhmut.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Trump vs CNN. Zaluzhny skips NATO meeting. Poland renames Kaliningrad. Klitschko shows Kinzhal. U/1
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Ukraine... Think, Have We learned History?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - TONY SHAFFER
Biden Administration Wants War. Peace talks are never mentioned.
JACKSON HINKLE
Putin Drops TRUTH BOMBS In Victory Day Speech.
Wagner RETREATS 500m In Bakhmut.
Skinny Vaush STRIKES AGAIN.
Tucker Carlson's BIG ANNOUNCEMENT.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russian FM denounces creation of an army against Syria by the U.S.
MINTPRESS NEWS
Irish MEP points out hypocrisy of the ICC's selective accountability.
EMIL COSMAN
Russia is "losing," but it gains territory. Is this logical? Western mass media's narrative...
Russian mobilization? Putin calls reservists to military training camps. Bad news for the West.
They admit it: The West vs Russia. Ukraine to surrender in a few days if West stops military support.
Why US Patriot didn't kill a Kinzhal hypersonic missile in Kiev. Technical arguments. Russians say.
Biden family received millions from foreign nationals, tried to conceal source. US House Oversight.
Ukrainian counterattacks successful on Bakhmut front. Russians retreat up to 2 km. Ukrainians report.
BORZZIKMAN
NATO can't Believe its Eyes! New Tactics of Warfare by Russia have Proven to be Effective!
DOUBLE DOWN NEWS
Killing of Palestinians EXPOSES Western Hypocrisy.
REDACTED
BREAKING NEWS! This is WAR in the U.S. | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris.
GARLAND NIXON
US NEOCONS DISCUSS PLAN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF TAIWAN.
MINTPRESS NEWS
President of Brazil calls for a movement to defend Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
THE CONVO COUCH
Imran Khan Arrested, Chaos in Pakistan, Is Khan Victim of a U.S.-Backed Coup?
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHY IS UKRAINE THE WEST’S FAULT?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 11th May 2023:
Russia reveals number of civilians killed by Ukraine in Donbass.
Kiev’s forces have been responsible for 5,000 fatalities in the region since 2014, Moscow’s top investigator has said.
Ukrainian forces have killed more than 5,000 people in Donbass since 2014, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, has said. He made revealed the number while describing the work of his agency in prosecuting the alleged crimes of the “Kiev regime” during the International Youth Legal Forum in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
“[We act] first remotely, then on site. Exposing the instances of mass burials of civilians,” he explained.
There are 138 minors among the victims, for whom the committee seeks to bring justice, Bastrykin revealed. Over 9,500 civilians, including 444 children, were injured in Donbass by Ukrainian fire during the same period of time, the official added.
Earlier this week, the Donetsk People’s Republic claimed over 4,500 of its residents had lost their lives since the start of the escalation of the conflict in Donbass on February 17, days before Moscow launched its military operation. Some 135 children were among those killed, the DPR mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of issues related to Ukrainian war crimes stated. Kiev escalated attacks against the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in mid-February 2022.
READ MORE: Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk kills at least two – monitor
The DPR and LPR rejected the 2014 US-backed coup in Kiev and demanded great autonomy, to which the new authorities responded by deploying military and nationalist volunteer units to quash the rebellion. Moscow cited Ukraine’s years-long refusal to implement a plan for Donbass reconciliation and continued shellings of its settlements as some of the biggest reasons for sending troops into the area.
In September, the two republics, along with Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, overwhelmingly supported joining Russia during referendums, getting formally incorporated into the country shortly after.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
The Beginning Of The Ukrainian Counteroffensive Operation. Military Summary and Analysis 2023.05.11
Still 2.25 Bloody Long Square Kilometers Of Bakhmut. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.05.11
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Donetsk Front ] UKR FORCES CROSSED THE SHAITANKA RIVER; Russia attack Avdiivka from East and South.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine The Shadow of the Storm.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HISTORY OF MAKUS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Bakhmut Endgame | Ukraine Major Counterattack! | Genius Or Russian Trap? 11/05/23.
Wagner Establish Important Footholds | Flanks In Danger | Bakhmut Front Update 11/05/23.
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
WESTERN MEDIA PROSTITUTION ON UKRAINE & HOW IT MAY SOON TURN ON A DIME
Due to the present war mode affecting western media in its attitude toward events in Ukraine we really have nothing meriting the name journalism on this subject.
If not then what DO we have?
We have professional journalists prostituting their profession on a daily basis and breaking the bond of trust they have with their readers and viewers.
They have decided on a career whose purpose is to inform. To inform of the reality before them to the best of their abilities. They have purposefully abandoned the very essence of their career. What they purvey now is a totally skewed portrayal of events.
Take for example a Daily Telegraph article from several months ago concerning a major nuclear power plant under Russian control in Ukraine. In a highly convoluted form this article sought to skirt any mention of the Ukrainians bombarding the site. The author sought by excruciatingly convoluted means to give the impression that somehow or other the Russians are either bombarding themselves or the Ukrainian shelling of the plant is justified due to assertions made by those very Ukrainians. The justification asserted by Ukraine and denied by Russia is that Russia was firing artillery from the plant. Therefore, this, in the mind of the Ukrainians and apparently the author of the article, justified potentially creating a disaster similar to that of Chernobyl in 1986.
This kind of logic is the stuff of future nightmares where only a partial and highly biased version of reality is conveyed. This invites disaster. It also invites mass casualties, death and destruction.
For almost six months western press and media has been conveying a completely false portrayal of the conflict in Ukraine. They have sought constantly to give the impression Ukraine had a chance of winning against Russia. This was never even a remote possibility. Russia was ALWAYS going to win as even a cursory examination of the situation would have revealed. But western political elites could not tolerate the idea of Russia achieving a quick victory. This eventuality was deemed completely intolerable. Tens of thousands were therefore consigned to their deaths to achieve other goals pertinent only to the geopolitical ambitions of the primary western powers.
Being convinced that assuming a war mode stance was the only viable posture for them in the face of western state dedication to pushing the war endlessly forward, every mass media title and television channel committed the cardinal sin of their profession, skewing the facts to suit.
Ukraine could do no wrong and all that Ukraine said would be accepted as fact without question. Even the most outrageous and obvious lies were to be lent utmost credibility in order to help it and injure Russia. In a similar vein to using anti-government activists in Syria as sole founts of acceptable information, any activist or authority figure on the Ukrainian side had carte blanche to say whatever he or she dreamed up and have it transmitted as news. Nothing from the other side that couldn’t be used to degenerate and undermine it would see the light of day.
This one-sided set of narratives were displayed across all western mainstream media in diverse forms on a daily basis serving, where believed, to thoroughly condition readers and viewers into a Pavlovian state of mind which could be manipulated at will.
Ukraine was to be urged on by this incessant propaganda to deliver ever more cannon-fodder to the front. For the western powers the longer this process went on the better as they saw things, this in the hope that something could be saved from the mess they had created by goading Russia into this conflict and the failure of their economic attacks upon it for doing so.
The Americans and British in particular, though assisted by the European Union nations, really did want to see Ukraine fight to almost the very last Ukrainian.
This process is of course still underway. Without any doubt when Russia’s final victory does occur, postponed by the vast mounds of Ukrainian dead a few months, the western political elites will have a prepared cover story ready. The most likely lie prepared has already been partially rehearsed. Something over a month ago an article appeared saying that the Pentagon was unhappy with the information Ukraine had been supplying regarding the course of the conflict. It was said that they knew more about the disposition of Russian forces than they did regarding those of Ukraine.
I suspect the above will be the backbone of the public relations defence the western powers will use to excuse themselves from blame for arguably the greatest geopolitical blunder and subsequent debacle ever. It was their fault. They didn’t give us the accurate information we required. They kept too much from us and therefore we were helpless to assist them as well as we wished to.
On the other side Zelensky will say the West didn’t give him the degree of help he needed, that the numbers of this or that weapon system was inadequate. However, I think you know which side of this argument will receive the most attention and publicity in the West. Just as the western press and media swung into action to provide the required propaganda in favour of Ukraine at the behest of their state authorities, now, in this changed situation they will swing 180 degree to support the West AGAINST the now reframed Ukraine.
Such are the vagaries of a press and media profession in the West which has grown far too close to those who now can exert enormous influence over them.
WESTERN MEDIA PROSTITUTION ON UKRAINE & HOW IT MAY SOON TURN ON A DIME