RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 31.05.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 31.05.2023
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.
*** RUSSIA WINS IN UKRAINE - BRICS WINS WORLDWIDE***
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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
Kadyrov RU Offensive Starting, Avdeyevka; Ukr Shells Belgorod, Putin Warns; Biden Erdogan Tense Call.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Graham, Russians are in for rude awakening. Medvedev, UK our eternal enemy. UnionPay tops VISA. U/1
THE DURAN
Running the conflict as presentation art.
Biden White House debates various Ukraine off-ramps.
REDACTED
This just TOTALLY backfired on them, total disaster! | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - TONY SHAFFER
Drone War in Ukraine & Russia.
SCOTT RITTER
Ep. 69: Ask the Inspector (Just back from Russia!)
THE GRAYZONE
Neo-Nazis attack Russia with US weapons.
Ukraine's dystopian digital snitching app premiers in DC.
REDACTED
"They were all killed instantly!" - Donetsk under continued devastating attack.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Drone Strikes on Moscow, Putin Immunity from ICC at BRICS, Henry Kissinger & More.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DANIEL DAVIS
Do our Leaders really understand the DANGER?
EMIL COSMAN
US Dollar elimination. South America to drop the US Dollar, form own common currency. Brazil pushes.
U.S. threatens China. China doesn't care. China bans U.S. chipmaker Micron. U.S. says it "won't tolerate."
Kasparov has NO intellectual authority in anything but Chess. Who promotes this guy...and why?
Brave Serb. Djokovic declares Kosovo is Serbia."Kosovo is the heart of Serbia.”Somehow controversial.
Venezuela wants to join BRICS. Maduro visits Brazil's Lula. The coalition grows, hegemony shrinks.
West's double standard on Ukraine's "war crimes" vs Russia's "war crimes." West uses weasel talk.
A weasel thinks we are dumb: US/NATO doesn't wage hybrid war against Russia in Ukraine, the opposite.
U.S. lost, Erdogan won. They try to BRIBE him now. F-16s for dropping objections against Sweden-NATO.
GARLAND NIXON
NEOCONS HOPING FOR A UKRAINE DMZ ESCAPE.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Zelensky's Army shells its own people in Luhansk; Drones set Russian oil refineries ablaze | Watch:
JACKSON HINKLE
Bad news…
Ukrainian President Learns Karma Is A Bitch.
Australian Commander PRAISES Putin For Ukraine SMO.
BORZZIKMAN
Detailed Analysis Of Ukrainian Drones Attack on Moscow┃Russian Deputies Demand To Punish the U.S.
DANNY HAIPHONG
BRICS is Ready to DESTROY US dollar Hegemony as Bloc Surpasses G7.
DYNAMIC DISCOVERIES
BRICS Draws Membership Bids From 19 Nations Before Summit.
LENA PETROVA
🔴 The BRICS Bloc's Expansion: Saudi Arabia To Join In 2023.
SMART SILVER STACKER
Saudi Arabia Joins BRICS Bank (Dedollarization & Silver).
KITCO NEWS
Oil will soon be priced in Bitcoin as petrodollar collapses - Greg Foss.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
How a US debt trap in Argentina is fueling inflation, dollarization & far right.
STEPHEN GARDNER - GREG MANNARINO
WARNING! They're USHERING In The Collapse of the US DOLLAR.
BREAKING POINTS
Homeowners SCREWED As Vast Swaths of U.S. Uninsurable.
FIRSTPOST
Tensions Escalate in Kosovo: NATO Troops Injured in Clashes.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russian President condemns recent Ukrainian attacks on civilians.
President Lula proposes to advance in the integration of South America.
President Nicolás Maduro took part in the South American Presidents’ Summit.
Presidents of Venezuela and Argentina meet to discuss status of bilateral relations.
BOLAZO⭕militar
⭕ ATGM KORNET RUSO INFALIBLE Y LETAL DESTROZA EN OBJETIVO // KORNET ATGM DESTROYS TARGET. ⭕
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 31st May 2023:
Putin confirms strike on Ukrainian military intelligence HQ.
Kiev’s continuing attacks on Russian soil are aimed at provoking a “mirror response” from Moscow, the president has said.
Russia has targeted the headquarters of the Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) in Kiev, President Vladimir Putin confirmed on Tuesday.
“We’ve been talking about the possibility of striking the ‘decision-making centres.’ Naturally, Ukraine’s military intelligence headquarters falls into such a category, and it was hit two or three days ago,” Putin stated.
The Russian president also acknowledged a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow, which occurred earlier in the day. The main goal of such strikes is attempting to “intimidate” Russian citizens, which is a “clear sign” of “terrorist activity” on Kiev’s part, he said.
Unlike Ukraine, which has been targeting “residential buildings” in Russia, Moscow is striking only military targets, such as ammunition dumps or fuel depots, with “high-precision” weaponry, he added.
READ MORE: EU issues plea to Russia after Moscow drone attack
Moscow’s anti-aircraft defence fared “okay” in repelling the latest attack, Putin noted, admitting that there still was room for improvement.
Kiev’s ultimate goal of indiscriminately striking Moscow and other Russian cities is provoking a “mirror response” from Russia, the president stated.
“They are provoking us into taking mirror actions. We’ll see what we can do about it. Yet, Ukrainian citizens, who of course have no say about anything now, since Ukraine has unleashed a total terror against its civilian population, must realise what the incumbent authorities are pushing for,” Putin said.
He went on to say that the most grave threats include the continuous effort by Kiev to “disrupt” the work of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, as well as potential attempts to use a “dirty” nuclear device.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Donbass Zugzwang | The Russians Suddenly Launched Another Operation. Military Summary For 2023.05.31
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
New Russian Offensive Encircles Bilohorivka.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukrainian Front Update [31 May 2023].
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
Ukraine Russian War, Map and Combat Footage for May 30, 2023 Russia Focus on Donetsk Regions.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
Russians Quickly Advance North Of Bilohorivka To Encirlce It From North And South.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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.
THE FALL OF EASTERN & SOUTHERN UKRAINE TO RUSSIA & WHAT FOLLOWS
Bakhmut has fallen. The Ukrainian army has just lost it to the Russian forces incrementally making progress toward the towns where the Ukrainians will make their last stand, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk while grinding down the Ukrainian army as they go.
This breakthrough will lead to sieges of the remaining conurbations that lie ahead and which will bring about the Russian campaign’s success in liberating the entire Donbass region. It is not thought that Kramatorsk and Slavyansk will pose the same problems or require the same time to liberate as was with Bakhmut. The fall of these cities are some 3 to 6 months away yet unless there is a complete collapse in the morale of the Ukrainian army which is quite possible.
It must be suspected that sooner or later the Ukrainian army will buckle under the continual loss of manpower being suffered. There is a strong likelihood, though not by any means a certainty, that a very large number will surrender over the next few months. They will increasingly see that fighting in a hopeless cause to a needless death is being constantly forced on them by Zelensky who in turn is pushed into this murderous policy by the western powers.
Russia’s campaign in Ukraine is therefore coming to the end of its current phase. From the beginning Russia has fought a limited campaign, only upping its firepower incrementally in the hope of persuading the Ukrainian regime to come to the negotiating table. It should be understood that Russia did everything possible to avoid the present situation. For seven long years Russia attempted to find a peaceful way through via Minsk. Ultimately it became clear that Ukraine and the West had no intention of doing likewise and Russia was left with no good choices but this one.
Russia, due to this being an existential question of securing Russia’s borders and the Russian people in safety and in perpetuity means that Russia was always going to take this campaign through to a successful conclusion no matter what. The determination to do that is total. Still the minimum of force was used at every stage. However, with the West increasingly sending ever more lethal weaponry to Ukraine patience in Moscow is wearing extremely thin.
Russia will end this conflict holding the entirety of the Donbass region as as an integral part of the Russian Federation. The question of other regions in middle and southern Ukraine that wish to become part of the Russian Federation as republics will be most likely be resolved through referendum some time after the Ukrainian regime capitulates and comes to terms.
How long will it take for the end game scenario as described take? I would imagine six months at the outside. It is difficult to imagine it taking much longer as the long-awaited Ukrainian offensive appears to be less and less likely to achieve anything at all and more likely than not will be defeated with immense losses.
It has become clear within the last month or so that the western powers and those who speak for them within western mass media are finding themselves less and less able to put on a brave face, talking of endless Ukrainian victories while avoiding all else. The reality of the Ukrainian regime’s imminent defeat is slowly beginning to be acknowledged, something that ought to have been recognised and acknowledged as soon as it was seen that Russia had survived the onslaught of western sanctions against it.
This recognition will make the western powers more grounded in reality than they have been to date, which was not at all… but it also makes the most powerful of them more dangerous. As the saying goes, all’s fair in love and war’ and as we have seen an already copious amount of false flag operations have already been undertaken by Zelensky and his people. The combination of growing desperation and the reach and scope of western powers along with highly complicit mainstream news platforms almost any atrocity can be arranged in the days ahead and laid at Russia’s door.
However, it must be suspected that there will come a time when the penny finally drops among all western political and media elites and with a resigned air they will finally begin to admit defeat. Defeated on the battlefield and also defeated in financial and economic fields also. They will then begin to turn inward and belatedly their attention will move toward their increasingly battered, free-falling economies to see what they could possibly do to belatedly put them on life support.
Russia will get to work also, though in much more extroverted fashion, with the rouble stable in value against the dollar and euro, with inflation under control and falling, GDP rising, self-sufficiency in energy and food, increased profits from its oil and gas and steady, with increasing links across an expanding BRICS Russia will set to work rebuilding the new republics that were formerly part of Ukraine. These will steadily be brought up to the standards found in the most modern parts of Russia with all the populations of the Donbass enjoying the same benefits in education, healthcare and pensions as the rest of Russia.
Investment in the new regions of Russia will be immense and many Russian-speakers will wish to assist in the development of these new republics and many will settle there. An influx from the increasingly financially devastated western Ukraine can be expected also. Over time shining new airports will rise, brand new hospitals, polyclinics, schools, colleges and universities can be expected along with myriad other forms of infrastructure including new roads, motorways and high speed train lines.
The future is incredibly bright for the Donbass while what is left of the former Ukraine is likely to become parcelled up as protectorates governed by Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia with the EU footing the bill for everything. Russia will ensure that a 100 kilometre buffer zone exists between it and what will become a de facto part of the EU (though never NATO).
These are the most likely changes we will see over the next six months and going forward from there toward a renewed and once more stable region where Russia succeeds in its mission to create a new security architecture that guarantees the security of all and crucially for the Russian Federation itself.
