RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 07.01.2023
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.
*** RUSSIA/WEST/NATO: WHO’S WINNING GLOBALLY? ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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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’. (193k subscribers):
Russia On Brink of Capturing Soledar, Ukraine Bakhmut Defences Crumble, West Rushes Weapons, Ukraine.
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‘Glenn Diesen’ (4k subscribers):
"The Tragedy of Ukraine" w/ Nicolai Petro, Alexander Mercouris, and Glenn Diesen.
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Latest update from Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ (202k subscribers):
Latest US Arms Shipment to Ukraine Cannot Solve Kiev's Fundamental Problem.
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‘Eva K Bartlett’ (47.6k subscribers):
Kuibyshevsky, Donetsk: "It's not just yesterday, it's shelling here every day."
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‘Djuki San’ (37.6k subscribers):
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (January 7, 2023).
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (5.27k subscribers):
Ivan Katchanovski: Ukraine Professor Talks #Media Lie$ & Proxy War.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ (206k subscribers):
HAPPY I don't live in Europe.
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‘The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong’ (37.4k subscribers):
Ben Norton: China and Russia are Leading a Multipolar World Out of Neoliberalism.
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‘Multipolarista’ (39.9k subscribers):
Why US imperialism is desperate to prevent a multipolar world.
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‘Al Arabiya English’ (302k subscribers):
President Putin says Asia key to world becoming 'truly multipolar'.
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‘LSE’ (217k subscribers):
Russian National Strategy in a Multipolar World.
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‘Good Times Bad Times’ (194k subscribers):
Multipolar World - Russia's Primakov Doctrine in the Middle East.
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Amit Sengupta’ (1.68 million subscribers):
Why Argentina & Iran wants to join BRICS group | BRICS summit 2022 | Geopolitics.
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US Saudi OPEC oil cut dispute | Is Saudi siding with Russia | Geopolitics.
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Russia China gas pipeline | Russia's alternative to European energy market Nord stream | Geopolitics.
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‘CNBC International’ (1.15 million subscribers):
BRICS: How an acronym from Goldman Sachs morphed into a strategic economic bloc.
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.07 million subscribers):
Jaishankar slams Europe's 'hypocrisy' on Russia's war; Watch savage reply over India’s position.
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‘CRUX’ (1.66 million subscribers):
Russia-Ukraine War l Jaishankar Calls Out West Again, Questions 'Isn't Europe Funding The War?'
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‘ANI News’ (1.49 million subscribers):
Why India-Russia ties cannot be broken; Hot Indian spices adding flavour to a ‘spicy’ economy.
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‘BORZZIKMAN’ (119k subscribers):
The US is waging a 4th Generation War against Russia┃An Explanation of Pentagon's Taсtics of WARFARE.
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‘Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ (79k subscribers):
Twitter, FBI and the Deep State.
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‘The Kim Iversen Show’ (505k subscribers):
Twitter Files w/Matt Taibbi, Lab Leak Whistleblower Dr. Andrew Huff.
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‘Geopolitical Trends’ (7.26k subscribers):
Holy Smokes! China POSTED 4.4% Growth in 2022!
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'Sean Foo' (65.8k subscribers):
Massive Escalation - This Economic Apocalypse Won’t End.
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Latest update by Brian Berletic of ‘The New Atlas’ (202k subscribers):
Western Escalation in Ukraine: Sending in Armor - But is it Too Little Too Late?
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‘George Galloway’ (236k subscribers):
I lay in bed wondering if the plane overhead was carrying the nuclear bomb which would end the world.
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.27k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Russia On The Right Side Of History!
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'RealTruthTalk' (5.27k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor: Talks Ukraine & European Build Up.
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‘iAFRICAN’ (77 subscribers):
Understanding Ukraine.
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🇺🇦🔎 Part 2 of Dr. Jim Garrison's Understanding Ukraine.
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'U.S. Tour of Duty' (21.6k subscribers):
Scott Ritter on the Announced Russian Ceasefire.
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‘Fall and Rise’ (1.27k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Pure Ukrainian Propaganda.
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'iAFRICAN' (80 subscribers):
War Chronicles 1st January-6th January. Main events of the week.
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◾ Ukrainian War Crimes confession as military and politicians turn against each other.
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'iAFRICAN' (80 subscribers):
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Loading the corpses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) grinder.
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'Master B Editor' (152 subscribers):
💥🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian soldiers feeling helpless in the center of Soledar.
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'iAFRICAN' (83 subscribers):
RETURN TO THE MOTHERLAND.... VICTORIOUS.
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Journalist Diana Panchenko documentary about Mariupol tells about the fate of ordinary residents.
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MORE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE CONFESSIONS FROM UKRAINE.
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Kiev-Pechersk is full of soldiers, the original priest is banned.
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'Through the eyes of' (71.9k subscribers):
ANDREI MARTYANOV ON HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE EUROPE TO RECOVER? HOW RUSSIA WAS ABLE TO KEEP THE VALUES?
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‘ShanghaiEye魔都眼’ (121K subscribers):
Lukashenko visits Russian troops in western Belarus, what did he say to soldiers?
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'Dark Tech' (224k subscribers):
The Missile That Scares NATO.
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‘Survival Lilly’ (1.08 million subscribers):
Austrias Secretary of Defence warns of Blackout in near Future!
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 7th January 2023:
Ukraine on ‘NATO mission’ – defense minister.
Aleksey Reznikov has argued that Kiev is shedding blood for the military bloc and expects weapons in return.
Kiev is shedding blood to carry out the mission NATO set for itself and expects the “civilized West” to provide weapons and ammunition in return, Ukrainian Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov has said in an interview for a domestic TV channel.
Appearing on the 1+1 network’s TSN channel on Thursday evening, Reznikov pointed out that at the Madrid summit last summer, NATO declared Russia the greatest threat to the US-led bloc.
“Today, Ukraine is addressing that threat. We’re carrying out NATO’s mission today, without shedding their blood. We shed our blood, so we expect them to provide weapons,” he said.
Reznikov also claimed that his NATO colleagues have told him, both in conversations and via text messages, that Ukraine is the “shield of civilization” and “defending the entire civilized world, the entire West.”
Ukrainian officials, from President Vladimir Zelensky on down, routinely make public appeals for tanks, missiles, artillery and ammunition. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told the General Staff in December that Moscow was de facto fighting the collective West. By his estimates, the government in Kiev has received almost $100 billion worth of weapons, ammunition and other supplies in 2022 alone.
Reznikov has led that effort, boasting to the US outlet Politico in October that he had figured out the Pentagon’s political process. His goal, he said, was to keep raising the bar until Ukraine received main battle tanks.
While that particular threshold has yet to be crossed, on Friday Washington announced the delivery of 50 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, the most modern armor sent to Kiev so far, as part of a $3 billion weapons package. Earlier this week, France pledged a number of wheeled ‘light tanks’ as well.
These shipments are intended to replace Ukraine’s battlefield losses. Last month, Kiev’s top general Valery Zaluzhny told The Economist he would need 300 more tanks, up to 700 infantry fighting vehicles, and 500 howitzers to conduct offensive operations. This is more than the number of such vehicles in British or German inventory.
Moscow insists that Western weapon deliveries only serve to prolong the conflict, and has repeatedly warned Ukraine’s backers that this could result in an all-out military confrontation between Russia and NATO.
Article from Russia Today (RT) - 7th January 2023 : Ukraine on ‘NATO mission’ – defense minister
MAPPING CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (78.6k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 07.01.2023.
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1k subscribers):
Ukraine Russian War Chronicle, Rybar Map for January 5-6, 2023 Russian Takes Soledar Under Control.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (50.8k subscribers):
Whatsapp is providing Ukraine w Russia's frontline troops' messages of military reports & intel/info.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (28.4k subscribers):
UKRAINE WAR MAP | Ceasefire Not A battlefield Reality | Russia Advances North and South of Soledar.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (15.7k subscribers):
Russia-Ukraine War: Ukraine RETREATS From Soledar - January 7th.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
Ukraine [7 Jan 2023] 'Today' -RU reach the center of Soledar.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (55.8k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’ via ‘Itapirkanmaa2’ channel. (24.6k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION WAR UPDATES (36.6k subscribers):
Soledar Front Update | Further Russian Advances | Geolocations Revealed.
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How Many Soldiers Does Each Side Have?
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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.