RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 10.04.2024
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.
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*** THE UKRAINIAN ARMY IS FAST COMING APART AT THE SEAMS ***
“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.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
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GEORGE GALLOWAY MP: Joe Biden doesn’t care a damn about the people of Ukraine.
Russia launches terrorism probe into US and NATO officials.
Moscow is following a trail from last month’s Crocus City Hall attack.
Intelligence agencies and law enforcement are looking at certain Western government officials as part of an investigation into the funding of terrorist attacks such as the massacre at Crocus City Hall and the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, the Russian Investigative Committee announced on Tuesday.
The probe was launched after a referral by several Russian lawmakers, which accused the US and its allies of organizing the March 22 attack on the Moscow concert venue.
Investigators are currently looking at the potential involvement of “specific individuals from among government officials, people with civic and commercial organizations of Western countries,” said committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko.
It has already been established that funding for terrorist attacks inside Russia has been funneled through Ukrainian companies, including the notorious Burisma Holdings – former employers of US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter – Petrenko added.
READ MORE: Russia claims ‘significant evidence’ of Ukrainian involvement in Crocus terrorist attack
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia has also said it would follow the evidence leading to “persons and structures located in the US, Germany, France and Cyprus.”
In addition to last month’s Crocus City Hall attack, the investigation is looking at other terrorist acts, including the assassinations of prominent public figures and the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in international waters.
Investigators are establishing the connections between the direct perpetrators of terrorist acts and “foreign curators, organizers and sponsors,” Petrenko added.
Russia launches terrorism probe into US and NATO officials.
On US pressuring, Beijing says China-Russia cooperation shouldn't come under external interference.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - SCOTT RITTER: Russia Crushing NATO.
SCOTT RITTER: Ukraine's Army is Done! No Stalemate!
Moscow Attack: Ukraine Company Linked To Hunter Biden Under Russia Lens For 'Terror Funding'.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: Is WWIII Here?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LT. COL. KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: Asymmetrical Warfare vs Russia.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA: ANDREI MARTYANOV "RUSSIA IS DONE WITH THE WEST"/ LIVESTREAM.
ANDREI MARTYANOV: Counter-Force.
EMIL COSMAN: Video-Russian missile destroys 30 Ukrainian Howitzers in one accurate strike in Sumy Oblast.
U.S. Gets The Big Boot.
From Pro Ukraine to Somewhat Pro Russia.
Trump’s Ukraine Solution, Simple and Effective.
Patriot reserves exhausted – German FM.
The West is scouring the world for more anti-aircraft systems to send to Kiev.
Ukraine urgently needs more air defense missiles, but Berlin doesn’t have any to give, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday.
Baerbock spoke with reporters after meeting with her Moldovan counterpart, Mihai Popsoi, in Berlin.
“Unfortunately, the stocks, especially our own Patriot systems, are now pretty much exhausted,” she said. “Therefore I made it clear at a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting that we need to check the availability of all Patriot systems in Europe and globally, and that we will make every effort to obtain these systems for Ukraine.”
Officially, Germany has sent Ukraine two batteries of the US-made Patriot systems. Late last month, the government said it was preparing additional systems for delivery, without specifying their number.
Berlin is working with Kiev and other European countries to buy Patriot systems from elsewhere and deliver them to Ukraine, Baerbock said, noting that a special fund might be set up for that purpose. An update on the project might be available at next week’s meeting of the G7 foreign ministers in Italy, she added.
Read more: Ukraine running out of air defense missiles – WaPo
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has repeatedly demanded more Patriot systems and missiles for them. His foreign minister, Dmitry Kuleba, said last week that Kiev’s “partners” had more than 100 of the air defense systems on hand but weren’t willing to provide half a dozen of them.
“Is it such a big problem? Is it not feasible to provide Ukraine with the minimum request?” Kuleba said at the time, adding that the systems delivered so far were appreciated, but “simply insufficient, given the scale of the war.”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg responded by saying that the US-led bloc would “explore opportunities” to supply Ukraine with more air defences.
So far, the US, Germany and the Netherlands have sent several Patriot launchers to Ukraine. While Kiev has claimed that they are very effective against the incoming missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry has provided evidence that several of the launchers and radars have already been destroyed.
Patriot reserves exhausted – German FM.
COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
Russia & China Defying the US Openly!
EMIL COSMAN: NATO to expand into Asia, new members. NATO's REAL plans revealed? Total Global dominance.
ISRAEL-PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-DPRK-TAIWAN
THE GRAYZONE: The escalation ladder, w/ Mohammad Marandi - The Grayzone live.
Türkiye launches trade war on Israel.
The Jewish state has threatened retaliation against Ankara’s restrictions over the Gaza war.
The Turkish government has imposed export restrictions on Israel covering 54 product categories, in response to the Gaza war, the Trade Ministry announced on Tuesday.
Ankara has been one of the fiercest critics of Israel since the conflict with Hamas broke out in October. Protests have been held in Istanbul in recent days demanding a trade ban. Ankara’s decision also follows the Israeli government’s refusal to allow Turkish aid drops into Gaza.
According to Turkish Trade Ministry, the items on the export embargo list – which takes immediate effect – include aluminum, copper, steel, construction materials, machinery, and various chemical products. Türkiye had already stopped sending Israel any goods that could be used for military purposes, the ministry noted.
The restrictions will remain in place until Israel declares a ceasefire in Gaza and allows “the unhindered flow of sufficient humanitarian aid” into the area, the document adds. Israel has been accused by the UN and human rights groups of obstructing the deliveries of aid into Gaza.
READ MORE: Israel summons Turkish envoy after Erdogan’s ‘send Netanyahu to Allah’ remark
In response to the restrictions, the Israeli Foreign Ministry accused Türkiye of “unilaterally” violating bilateral trade deals. Foreign Minister Israel Katz took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday to threaten Ankara with “parallel measures” that will “harm” the Turkish economy. Israel will prepare a list of products it intends to stop buying from Türkiye, he said. Katz also called on the US to halt investments in the country and impose sanctions on Ankara.
The trade dispute follows a diplomatic row between the two nations’ leaders. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly compared the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and accused Israel of committing “genocide” against the Palestinians. Israel, meanwhile, has claimed that the Turkish president ranks among the worst anti-Semites in history, due to his stance on the conflict and support for Hamas.
Israel declared war on Hamas in October in response to a deadly raid staged by the militant group, in which at least 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 taken hostage. The retaliatory bombing of Gaza and ground operation has caused the deaths of at least 33,000 people, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.
Türkiye launches trade war on Israel.
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DANIEL DAVIS: We best not end up doing Israel's Dirty Work.
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🔴 We Are Innocent: Germany Defends Itself at the ICJ.
Cameron Says UK Will Still Sell Israel Arms, Germany In The Dock Over Israel Support.
USA
DANIEL DAVIS: The Insidious DANGER America Creates for Itself.
IN PERIL: Johnson's FATE, Rafah INVASION Soon? AZ Court UPHOLDS 160 Year-old Law, Trump Media TANKS.
Marjorie Taylor Greene AMPS-UP Pressure Campaign To OUST Speaker Johnson.
AFRICA
Top Pentagon Official Claims U.S Has Not Received A Formal Request To Leave Niger By The Government.
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.
IN THE WEST WHERE ARE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES WHEN IT COMES TO WAR?
Millions protested across Europe against the attack upon & invasion of Iraq. The USA, UK & the 'Coalition of the Willing' carried on with their lie-based campaign anyway. What lessons can be drawn?
It is becoming a distant memory now but once upon a time, something that will be remembered by the older ones among us, there was a feeling that our votes actually counted for something. At that time there was more of a distinct difference between the main parties that you could choose from. Can this be said today?
Do the votes cast at presidential or general elections count for anything these days? When lobby groups, advisers and non-governmental organisations and other elite vested interests have the ear of the powerful, what part does the electorate play other than give one side or the other the franchise for the next four years? What would be the difference if they simply took turns one after the other at running things in coordination with their chosen vested interests?
Turning to foreign policy, how much say do the electorate in the USA, UK or EU have in the expenditure of billions of taxpayers’ money on Ukraine? Where was the mandate for this generosity with money that could otherwise be spent on improving the lives of those taxpayers who worked hard thinking their governments would do the right thing by them? Were those electors given anything resembling a choice on this?
It was believed until recent times that wherever possible western governments, aligned as they supposedly were with the values of the United Nations, would do everything possible to bring violent conflicts to an end. It has long been the case that it was expected they would use their ‘good offices’ to calm waters and bring the warring sides together in negotiations with a view to resolving differences in some form of settlement. No more it seems. Instead the agenda has flipped where they encourage even more war, death and destruction.
What is going on? Where are actions that conform to the principles enshrined in the founding documents of the United Nations? And, you could ask, where is the United Nations on these questions? Has it become entirely toothless and if so aren’t we at far more risk now than we have been in living memory. If the doorkeeper that is the UN, there to reduce tension and advocate for peace has become complicit in the promotion of war is no longer on guard then the door to a potential Armageddon is wide open.
It is abundantly clear that the western powers, the USA, UK and most of the EU have no interest in finding a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. Instead of pouring water on the flames they are determined to keep supplying fuel to it instead. With us having no right to say anything about it and it being inferred that it is all being done in our name? How far have we come as people if this is even remotely true. Are we all warmongers now? What happened to our sense of horror at the prospect of war. Did we all, with our politicians to the fore, completely forget what excruciatingly terrible things occur daily during a war?
I suspect most of us, unlike our political “masters” have not fallen in love with war. We may well be confused due to the one-sided, totally simplistic war mentality exhibited by our politicians and media, but surely we have not fallen into the pit of darkness that comes with jingoistic hatred of an enemy just as human as we are. If that is our condition then we are lost indeed. Such hatred, as we all surely know, confused as we may be, inexorably destroys the hater as well as the targeted foe who we decided to call subhuman in order to justify ourselves.
The fallback character assassination technique is to call whoever the latest target of our political classes is the new Hitler. This consigns such people to the avidly wished for disposal category. Taking all our “knowledge” of such people from thoroughly sources that deliver a comic book rendition of god versus evil we feel no need to think, only to react. Something must be done and if it is war, then so be it, we get behind that in a state of moral rectitude. Only to discover later that what were told was not worth the paper it was printed on. We were duped. Once again.
Where is democracy when you need it most, where were we given the choice to kill and destroy, to even remotely take the responsibility to wreck lives and livelihoods? Can we be satisfied that just because we marked a cross against a name in a voting booth we simply have to assume this one or that one is doing the “right thing”? Is continuing to promote more war EVER the right thing? Where will we find peace internally if we continually promote it externally? And if we allow our leaders to abandon the principle of seeking a peaceful solution to conflict and both major parties agree on war and ever more war, where in this do we have any democratic choice?
