RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 17.12.2023
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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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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BORZZIKMAN
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Articles from Russia Today (RT) - 17th December 2023:
Attempt to frame Russia for Polish plane crash based on ‘lies’ – Warsaw.
A commission investigating the disaster accused Russia of bombing the plane but never provided evidence.
The Polish Defense Ministry has shut down an investigation into a 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and dozens of Polish lawmakers and officials. The ministry accused the investigators of wasting taxpayer money to come up with “lies” about Russia’s supposed involvement in the tragedy.
Kaczynski and his wife were among 96 people on board the Polish Air Force Tu-154M that crashed outside Smolensk in western Russia on April 10, 2010, while attempting to land in thick fog. Official investigations by Polish and Russian authorities found no evidence of foul play, with both teams confirming that the pilots approached the airport too low, causing them to strike trees before reaching the runway.
Kaczynski was a member of the Law and Justice party, and when the party took power in 2015, his twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, ordered an investigation into the crash, citing popular Polish conspiracy theories blaming the incident on Moscow.
With the liberal Civic Platform back in power, the investigation was shut down on Friday, Minister of State at the Defense Ministry Cezary Tomczyk announced.
Read more: Moscow slams Polish claims that it planted explosives on late President Kaczynski’s plane as ‘endless fantasy-making’
“The liquidation of the Smolensk commission is in progress,” he said at a press conference, Poland’s Onet news site reported.
“Today, December 15, is the end of lies in the name of the Polish state,” he declared. “This is the end of spending hundreds of millions of zlotys [Polish currency] on activities that have nothing to do with explaining the causes of the disaster, but have a lot to do with politics.”
“This decision should have been made a long time ago,” he concluded.
The commission made a number of outlandish accusations during its seven-year investigation. It claimed in 2020 that Russian air traffic controllers directed the plane into the trees, while a 2018 report by the commission claimed that Russian operatives planted explosives on the aircraft.
Neither accusation could be backed up by evidence, yet Kacyzinski still claimed last year that the crash was planned “at the highest levels of the Kremlin,” and that President Donald Tusk – whose Civic Platform party oversaw the initial investigation – “covered up” the incident as part of a “macabre reconciliation with Russia.”
In a speech earlier this year, Kacyzinski announced that Polish prosecutors would be tasked with investigating the crash as an assassination, and suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be charged by the International Criminal Court for his alleged involvement. Despite repeated promises, the commission never released its final report on the incident.
Attempt to frame Russia for Polish plane crash based on ‘lies’ – Warsaw.
US knows Ukraine can't win – Kremlin
Washington is basically telling Kiev’s soldiers to “go and die” for nothing, Dmitry Peskov has told NBC.
The US has to review its current position on both the Ukraine conflict and relations with Russia if it wants to restore dialogue with Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told NBC in an interview published on Friday. Russia is ready to work with any American administration but would very much prefer a “more constructive” approach from Washington, he added.
The interview was published just a day after President Vladimir Putin accused the US and its allies of orchestrating the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev and essentially disrupting Russia’s years-long efforts to build normal relations with Ukraine. He also questioned the prospect of restoring relations between Russia and the West, saying that between NATO’s encroachment towards Russia’s borders and the role the US and its allies are playing in the standoff between the two neighbors, Moscow can hardly trust the Western nations.
Putin would be ready to work with “anyone who will understand that from now on you have to be more careful with Russia and you have to take into account its concerns,” Peskov told NBC’s Keir Simmons in Moscow, adding that the Russian leader would like to see a US president who is “more constructive” toward Russia and values dialogue more.
Read more: US engineered Ukraine conflict – Putin
The Kremlin spokesman also criticized America’s current role in the Ukraine conflict by saying that Washington only throws taxpayer money “into the wind” and is unnecessarily prolonging the hostilities by sending conflicting signals to Kiev, which end up just leading to more Ukrainian deaths.
A much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive has largely failed to bring about any notable changes to the front lines over some six months of the operation. According to Russian Defense Ministry estimates, Ukraine has lost over 125,000 troops and 16,000 pieces of heavy equipment in failed attempts to advance over the past half year.
“You have to understand your responsibility for this,” Peskov said. “You are telling them [Ukrainians] — go and die,” he continued, adding that “you know pretty well that they cannot win” but still offer Kiev more money and armaments.
Russia has repeatedly stated it was ready for peace talks with Kiev as long as “the reality on the ground” is taken into account. In the autumn of 2022, four former Ukrainian territories, including the two Donbass republics, joined Russia following a series of referendums.
Read more: Kiev sending its soldiers to die – Putin
Kiev declared the referendums “sham” and has been pushing for its own “peace formula” under which Russia would withdraw its troops not only from the four regions but from Crimea as well before any talks could even commence. Moscow dismissed Ukraine’s demands as being detached from reality.
“America is strongly involved in this conflict,” the Kremlin spokesman told NBC, adding that the standoff between the two neighbors is in fact a “hybrid war” against Russia launched by Washington. Such confrontational tactics have been detrimental to global security, Peskov warned, adding that the world is “less safe than it used to be’’ before dialogue between Moscow and Washington was “shut down.”
Contacts between the two nations were reduced to minimum after Russia launched its military operation in February 2022. The US and its allies openly supported Kiev in the conflict and slapped Moscow with an unprecedented number of sanctions. Western nations then also started supplying arms to Ukrainian forces.
The ties have not been severed entirely, though. On Thursday, Putin revealed that dialogue between the two nations continues, particularly about the Americans accused of espionage in Russia. When asked during his marathon press conference about US nationals Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich, the president said that Russia was willing to exchange them but wanted to reach a deal with Washington that would be “mutually acceptable.”
US knows Ukraine can't win – Kremlin.
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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.
UKRAINE: TRUTH WAS THE FIRST CASUALTY… BUT REALITY WILL NOT BE DENIED
HUBRIS BEGINS AT HOME
The western powers had what they thought was a very strong hand. Get Russia bogged down spending blood and treasure in Ukraine and in coincidence delivering a vast number of what they thought would be devastating hits on the Russian economy. From these two weapons, they believed, the Russian state, by one means or another, would collapse. In fact, as we have seen, they have lost both bets. As the EU descends into recession the Russian economy is growing by around 3.5% at the last count and in eastern Ukraine Russia is incrementally winning by grinding down the Ukrainian army at the rate of some 400 to 800 men per day killed or wounded. Russia is bringing ever more well trained men to the front line while Ukraine is grabbing people, giving them a few weeks training and sending them to die under a hail of all kinds of munition from the Russian side. Ukraine has no air force to speak of while Russia has an industrial base churning out ever more planes as well as tanks, missiles, drones and ammunition. The western powers with their political and media wishful thinking are in fact aiding the Russians in grinding down the Ukrainian armed forces and there is absolutely nothing on the horizon that will change any of this until a capitulation by the USA, EU and the UK in the name of a deceased Ukrainian state.
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ATROCITY PORN & ITS USES
What are called atrocities during the Ukraine conflict are mistakenly laid at Russia's door. If you examine each and every example that the consensus of western outlets say were down to Russia's actions you start to realise they are very far from cut and dried and more than that, the evidence in each and every major case indicates that there is a very strong case for saying it was the Ukrainians, NOT the Russians. THAT IS IN EVERY MAJOR CASE. The reality is that the Ukrainians and those political and media elites in the West who support them to the hilt have been on a mission to demonise the Russians since day one of the conflict. THAT is what lies behind the consensus in the West, not the facts. The facts and details of each case appear to be of no interest to western elite outlets whether political or from the mainstream news media. Therefore Freddy, please do a little research in depth into these atrocities before you imply that Russia committed them. Keep in mind that in the vast majority of cases these atrocities happened to the Russian-speaking populations of places such as Kramatorsk (missile attack on civilians trying to leave) or Mariupol (civilians taking shelter in the theatre there.) Keep in mind that the worst of the Nazi-mentality fanatical ultra-nationalists of western Ukraine hate the Russian-speakers of eastern Ukraine with a passion because to them they are hated Russians, not Ukrainians at all.
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DEMONISE, DISTORT, NEVER DESCRIBE
The incessant 'war mode' journalism that exists in the western world in general and that is most pronounced in Britain has had the effect of poisoning even the seemingly highly intelligent there. Assertions concerning Russia as filtered through this incessant, thoroughly, nay absolutely, biased reporting (if one can even call it reporting) within this 'war mode' milieu is toxic. It generates an utterly false picture of so-called Ukrainian hopes for the future and successes in the present. It is typical of the kind of "reporting" that occurs in all the West's wars even stretching back to WWII. Nothing positive is said about the "enemy", the "enemy" is to be demonised at every turn, vilified in the same kind of terms as the Nazis of WWII, with no redeeming qualities and no excuses for an 'unprovoked attack'. Of course those who decide to make even a cursory unbiased and curious inspection of the period in Ukraine between 2014 and February 2022 can see quickly and easily that this conflict was quite obviously provoked and provoked time and time again to unbearable lengths. Even such rational minds as that which Freddy has acquired have been tainted by the 'war mode' propaganda bias of total bias, wishful thinking and MI6-concocted storylines, most designed to bore deep into the subconscious of all listeners and readers to demonise 'the other side'. This is one of the most evil and cynical things that has been seen and continues to be seen which totally turns the entire picture of what has been happening in Ukraine on its head. The constant flow of mendacious and slanderous lies from all manner of Ukrainian officials from the president on down has been constant since 2014... yet all these lies have been passed along as holy writ by a thoroughly compromised western political class and media who have prostituted themselves most completely to a man and woman leaving them with no integrity whatsoever.
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WAR MODE JOURNALISM
Editorial control and self-censorship regarding "reporting" about the Ukraine conflict in the West requires that any negative factors be minimised in importance and completely ignored if at all possible and even the tiniest gains are to be exaggerated into massive victories. In this way the increasingly hapless conscripts of the Ukrainian army are thrown to their doom on the front lines. Lies, blatant fabrications, inflated success, obvious misinformation and propaganda all conspire to lose the Ukrainian ever-increasing losses. Deaths, grievous injuries and massive trauma, frostbite, hunger and all manner of psychological dysfunction are all driven forward by editors and commentators in the West sipping their coffee or whisky, dining out in exclusive restaurants and enjoying all the goodies in life they have become so well used to. It is as sick as it gets. All in a drive to give the impression that naturally the "show" must go on even when all is in reality lost with excruciating pain being suffered by families across Ukraine. It is no problem at all for those commentators and their editors across the western world. Their minds are closed with creative juices flowing only to create ever more litanies of lies and exaggeration. No screams or pangs of abject suffering will ever reach their comfortable lives of happy ignorance and slavish devotion to 'the cause'.