RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 04.02.2023
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 UNREPORTED 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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Lead feature:
Latest update on events within Ukraine and their knock-on effects on the western world, by Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’. (200k subscribers):
As Russia Encircles Bakhmut Zelensky No Surrender; US Mulls China Conflict, Rumours to End War.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (40.7k subscribers):
Purges in Ukraine Expose HUGE Instability in Kiev ft. The Duran.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (157k subscribers):
US DOJ freeze, seize, transfer. Long range weapons aimed at Crimea. China spy balloon in Cyprus. U/1
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'The Duran' (332k subscribers):
Three point plan to avoid conflict with China.
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'Levan Gudadze - Opinion' (3.1k subscribers):
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'FINANCE MAIL' (31.3k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Putin Has Plans To Deal With New Sanctions On Russia, Destruction Of Ukrainian Army.
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'Gareth Price' (3.85k subscribers):
RT CrossTalk: Revisiting Germany 3 Feb, 2023
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'Gonzalo Lira' (114k subscribers):
The Roundtable #46: Shooting the Breeze w/ Brian Berletic.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.13 million subscribers):
Russian 'HIMARS' destroys Ukrainian Army facility in Donbas; Putin's men encircle Bakhmut Town.
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Putin warns Biden and West against strikes inside Russia; 'Won't tolerate...' | Details:
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.83k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Talks Ukraine/Russia - About Putin's Early Life & Answers Questions.
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'Reports on China' (41.1k subscribers):
AMERICA'S MELTDOWN OVER A CHINESE BALLOON | LOL!
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ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (127k subscribers):
Chinese manufacturers rush to fill vacant jobs as factory life rebounds.
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Russia Today (RT) News.
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'MudRogue' (1.13k subscribers):
Ukraine DECLARED Loser, by THE HILL ( Feature Story at 05:20 ).
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (127k subscribers):
Turkey: 'Take your dirty hands off Turkey' - Interior minister to US ambassador.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (40.6k subscribers):
Biden Planning MASSIVE Escalation in Ukraine Targeting Crimea.
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'Redacted' (1.67 million subscribers):
NATO warns that Putin's MASSIVE attack is happening now, send weapons | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
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'Redacted' (1.67 million subscribers):
OH SH*T, HERE WE GO.
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‘Investogator’ (1.42k subscribers):
How will the war in Ukraine impact the global security order?
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'U.S. Tour of Duty' (26.3k subscribers):
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 42: Ask the Inspector.
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'Gonzalo Lira - Again' (64.9k subscribers):
2023.02.04 About That Chinese Balloon.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.82k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Ukraine/Germany & NATO.
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Scott Ritter: Talk$ Tank$ Ukraine-Russia & NATO WW3?
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Scott Ritter: Talks Ukraine/Russia War Conflict Update.
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'The Real Politick with Mark Sleboda' (20k subscribers):
How Biden's Hubris Is Giving Birth to a Multipolar World.
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'Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom' (88.8k subscribers):
Media faces reality...& Russia not in this war with Ukraine to fight for a stalemate. Scott Ritter.
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'FINANCE MAIL' (31.3k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Major Miscalculation On The Part Of NATO In The United States. They Are Hiding This.
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'John Mearsheimer' (28.6k subscribers):
John Mearsheimer : THE US CREATES CONFLICT FOR THE WORLD.
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False tales.
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'Dialogue works' (11.4k subscribers):
Colonial Masters and Colonial Servants | Scott Ritter.
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'Opiniono' (1.26k subscribers):
The globalist war on free speech.
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'Gareth Price' (3.85k subscribers):
Spotlight =The war in Ukraine 02 02 2023.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.13 million subscribers):
India-Russia bonhomie pains Ukraine; Zelensky aide tells US to sanction Russian oil buyers.
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China exposes weak US air defence? Biden admin cries sovereignty 'violation' over spy balloon.
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'Half the woman in my admin...': Biden gaffe goes viral; Gets brutally trolled | Watch:
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Putin's Army on rampage; 25 Ukrainian soldiers killed, roads bombed in Donetsk | Kherson shelled.
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Turkey's F-16 ambition hits roadblock; U.S Senators warn Erdogan against blocking Sweden's NATO bid.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.82k subscribers):
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'Master B editor' (451 subscribers):
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‘TeleSUR English’ (194k subscribers):
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'Geopolitical Economy Report' with Ben Norton. (45.8k subscribers):
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'Sean Foo' (70.2k subscribers):
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'Info Defense' (138 subscribers):
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'Redacted' (1.67 million subscribers):
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'Tech Revolution' (67k subscribers):
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'Amit Sengupta' (1.71 million subscribers):
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'Tribun Timur' (6.9 million subscribers):
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Tense, Supply Convoy for Ukrainian Military Under Russian Artillery Fire.
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Russian Artillery Bombards Ukrainian Fortresses and Ammunition Warehouses.
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Russian troops ambush reinforcements & ammunition of Zelensky's forces, 4 Ukrainian soldiers lose their lives.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 4th February 2023:
Russia wants ‘revenge’ – Zelensky.
Kiev will go on the offensive if the West delivers more weapons soon, the president said.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has claimed that Russia wants “revenge” and is preparing for a major offensive in late February or early spring. Speaking after a meeting with visiting EU officials on Friday, Zelensky said Kiev was already preparing for the blow.
“We think there will be increased pressure in the east,” said the Ukrainian leader. “Russia wants revenge in the exact place where it previously failed. It wants to take the east,” he added, referring to areas east of Kharkov where Ukrainian troops advanced in the fall.
“Our mission is to prevent that and hold them off until our army is equipped with adequate weapons. I think we have every chance of that,” Zelensky asserted. The US and its allies have promised main battle tanks to Kiev, such as the American M1 Abrams, the British Challenger, and the German Leopard 2, but said that delivering them would take weeks or months.
Ukrainians need to remember the “motivation and spirit” from the start of the conflict, Zelensky added, noting that some parts of the country feel like they’re “on vacation” instead of at war.
Asked about the embattled city of Artyomovsk (called Bakhmut by Ukraine), Zelensky insisted that the Ukrainian military does not intend to withdraw.
“Nobody will surrender Bakhmut,” he said, adding that if Ukraine’s Western partners speed up deliveries of long-range weapons, Kiev will instead launch an operation to “liberate the territories occupied since 2014.”
A key Donbass crossroads, Artyomovsk has seen heavy fighting for months and is close to being in operational encirclement due to the advance of Russian troops north and south of the city. The Wagner Group private military company has been at the forefront of Russian efforts there.
Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin sent a message to Zelensky on Friday, urging him to keep fighting in Bakhmut to the last.
“Dear Vladimir Alexandrovich, many people are asking you to withdraw troops from Bakhmut. Do not do that,” Prigozhin wrote. “Artyomovsk is the main event of this war. We must keep fighting. You will show cowardice. You will no longer be respected. The Ukrainian people will not forgive you for surrendering Artyomovsk to a private military structure. Resist. Fight to the end.”
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 4th February 2023 : Russia wants ‘revenge’ – Zelensky
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (84k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.04
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.36k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (20.5k subscribers):
[ Battle of Bakhmut ] Fighting reported at Stupka district in North Bakhmut; Ukraine reinforce city.
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[ Kupyansk Front ] Russia semi-encircled Dvorichne, attacks Hryanykivka & Horobivka.
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[ Donetsk Front ] Russian Forces attacks Paraskovivka (south of Pobjeda), bypassing Novomykhalivka.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (19.2k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
Ukraine [4 Feb 2023] 'today'.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57k subscribers):
Battlefield Ukraine Why The Russians did not cut off the Polish border.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: February 3, 2023
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LATEST REPORT FROM GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (195k subscribers):
Fall of Soledar. Siege of Bachmut [War Mapped].
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 (54.3k subscribers):
Full Front Update 04/02/23.
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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.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS
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THE FIXED NATURE OF WESTERN ELITE "THOUGHT" ON UKRAINE IS DISASTROUS
The level of intellectual unwillingness of those in the West who consider only their own interests (and achievements) in respect of nations not bowing to their commands, is 99.99% complete. There is a near complete unwillingness to see things from the point of view of those nations who wish to assert their independence from the insistence of western domination and instead focus on their own strategic interests.
Even discussing their concerns in the abstract is anathema, tantamount to indicating approval. As long as this blind obedience to solely western concerns and interests prevails our world will run headlong toward disaster. Those elites who comprise western power desperately need to shuck off their mythologies about being all-powerful, all-knowing and saintly in every respect. The birth of a multipolar world is already in progress. The West's attempts now to kill that birth can only bring permanent bloodshed to our world and its possible permanent descent into levels of poverty, misery, strife and chaos not seen for generations.
There is a complete unwillingness to look at the events which took place in Ukraine during the winter months of 2013-14 where the previous democratically-elected president and government were unseated and replaced by U.S. and EU approved substitutes. Instead, western populations are expected to believe that ground zero for Russia’s “unprovoked” attack upon and invasion of Ukraine is February 24th 2022. This inability to look at all the facts and to instead stick rigidly to narratives which paint Russia in uniformly negative terms and those in control of Ukraine in wholly positive terms makes true reasoning of anything approaching a realistic assessment of where we are now totally impossible.
The ‘war mode’ mentality of constant demonisation while painting one side as wholly bad and the other as wholly good precludes any form of dialogue between the sides and makes certain that the only permanent solution will come from the battlefield where one side or the other wins and the other capitulates. Where a nuclear power is involved this type of myopia inflicted upon all western elites across both political and media spheres is disastrous as it cannot help but lead to every greater escalation with its attendant mass death and destruction.
No willingness to escape from the mentality described above can be detected in the West. While Russia urged negotiations from the start in 2014-15 which eventuated in the Minsk Agreements meant to provide security for the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine (within the region known as the Donbass). It has become clear recently that the efforts of the western allies and successive Ukrainian regimes were not to achieve anything approaching peace, reconciliation through greater autonomy for the people of the Donbass via the Minsk Accords but instead to buy time to build Ukraine’s military forces in order to subjugate them by force.
Russia was left with not a single good option except the one it took. All efforts made to insure that a peaceful path was taken to resolve the situation prevailing in the Donbass where the Ukrainian army and associated militants were constantly shelling the civilian population of the Donbass, were at an end. The current president of Ukraine was even talking of re-establishing Ukraine’s nuclear status. This while the shelling of the civilians within the Donbass steadily increased throughout January and early February 2022 (as registered by the OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) and the military presence surrounding the Donbass was increased and its armaments strengthened by NATO and all European powers in association with the USA and UK.
It should be noted that none of the above features in any discourse or commentary across the entire width and breadth of western mass media or within the western political sphere. Instead of this a wide selection of entirely one-sided mythologies have been constantly cooked up by western intelligence agencies and compliantly transferred to the western public mind via its mass media. This is conditioning at its most insidious, using blatant propaganda and all-pervasive brainwashing to elicit consent to policies which, if followed to their ultimate conclusion, cannot help but bring about the deaths of millions. This of course unless at some point the awful truth is acknowledged, that the West is not stainless and pure and has manipulated situations which have brought this ongoing disaster into being and that the time has come to acknowledge ALL the realities involved, including most crucially, that of the Russians.
If the recognition of both sides does not come soon then it is clear that many thousands, perhaps tens of thousands must die due to its absence and the absence of sensible negotiations that could provide a route to an eventual peace.
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Since I read John Mearsheimer supporting the war on China, I am not sure anymore about his ‘realist’ politics. Sorry!