RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 08.01.2023
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.
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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):
Ukraine Admits Heavy Losses, As Russia Takes Podgorodnoye, Most Soledar, Encircling What's Left.
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Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of ‘The Duran’ discuss geopolitical events of the day in answering subscribers questions. (323k subscribers):
Go slow strategy. Ukraine economy collapse, EU economy severe downturn .
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'Chavez News' (142 subscribers):
Documentary From Kiev to Dobass Part 1.
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Documentary From Kiev to Donbass Part 2.
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‘Djuki San’ (37.6k subscribers):
Morning briefing of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (January 8, 2023).
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'FINANCE MAIL' (22.9k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor: Russians Moved In With 80,000 Combat Troops. New Wonder Weapon By Ukrainians.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ on the geopolitical events of the previous 24 hours (153k subscribers):
Soledar, Bakhmut domino effect. WaPo, time is running out. EU debates Leopard tanks. U/1
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‘Garland Nixon’ (40.8k subscribers):
BIDEN’S NEOCONS FACING FOREIGN POLICY MELTDOWN.
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'Dialogue works' (9.77k subscribers):
Crucial to Understand | Douglas Macgregor & Scott Ritter.
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‘MintPress News’ (32.3k subscribers):
Alex Rubinstein & Lee Camp: The Truth About Ukraine's Azov Battalion.
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‘VRevelations’ (123k subscribers):
Russians Take Control Of Soledar: Ukrainians Surrender And Flee Into Mines/Seal them In say Russians.
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‘Dialogue Works’ (9.7k subscribers):
Diplomatic Colossal Failure of Century | Jeffrey Sachs & Oliver Stone.
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‘Master B Editor’ (154 suscribers):
Direct hit on a group of AFU soldiers on the settlement of Pavlovka near Ugledar.
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'iAFRICAN' (85 subscribers):
🇭🇺 Orban spittin facts!
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Ukraine’s tank takes a hit in the rear, southern Bakhmut area.
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❗️🇷🇺 Now there is a struggle for a new world order 🔎🌏🌎🌍
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She went to serve in Donbass’ police force and then for the DPR’s army. "I was born in Donbass."
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🇭🇺⚡Those who transport weapons to Ukraine are parties to the conflict - Viktor Orban.
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‘TeleSUR English’ (193k subscribers):
Russian military observes unilateral truce as Kiev shelling continues.
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'Geopolitical Economy Report' (40k subscribers):
Introducing Geopolitical Economy Report: Multipolarista is evolving.
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‘The Dive with Jackson Hinkle’ (206k subscribers):
Ukraine VIOLATES Christmas Truce Within 1st Minute.
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NATO's b*tch.
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He's right.
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‘FINANCE MAIL’ (22.8k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor: Ukraine Is Destroyed With Millions Of Ukrainians Fleeing.
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‘Douglas Macgregor Col’ (27.2k subscribers):
Douglas Macgregor - Not Good Strategy.
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‘RealTruthTalk’ (5.27k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: Discusses Ukraine/Russia Special Military Operation Update.
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‘BORZZIKMAN’ (119k subscribers):
NATO accepted the Inevitable ┃ Bakhmut and Soledar are Passing Into the Hands of the Russian Army.
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‘U.S. Tour of Duty’ (21.6k subscribers):
Scenes from the Evolution Ep. 18.
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‘Through the eyes of’ (72k subscribers):
AT THE PETER AND PAUL FORTRESS (ST.PETERSBURG).POLISH RESIDENT ACCUSED IN THE CASE OF WAR IN UKRAINE.
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‘TFIGlobal’ (430k subscribers):
Russian culture is here to stay!
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (121k subscribers):
I'm thrilled to return with breeze' China greets first int'l arrivals, with NO Covid limitations.
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Not lovin' it? Mixed emotions in Kazakhstan as McDonald's leaves over supply shortages.
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'iEarlGrey' (109k subscribers):
Orthodox Christmas Day In Donetsk - Delivering MORE Gifts!
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‘TeleSUR English’ (193k subscribers):
Russia increased agri-food exports to "friendly countries" by 25% in 2022.
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Presidents of Venezuela and Colombia strengthen relations with a second meeting.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro meets with Gustavo Petro in Caracas.
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‘Djuki San’ (37.6k subscribers):
Священная война (The sacred war) - Alexandrov Ensemble (2022).
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 8th January 2023:
Ukraine running out of time – former US officials.
Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates think more weapons are the solution to Kiev’s woes.
Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Defense Secretary Robert Gates have admitted that Ukraine’s economy and military are almost completely reliant on bailouts from the West, and barring a dramatic turnaround, its chances of victory are slipping away.
Ukraine’s “economy is in a shambles,” the ex-diplomat and former Pentagon chief wrote in the Washington Post on Saturday.
The country’s “military capability and economy are now dependent almost entirely on lifelines from the West,” they continued, arguing that should Ukraine fail to mount a successful offensive in the near future, President Vladimir Zelensky will be pressured by the West to negotiate a ceasefire with Russian President Vladimir Putin – something the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly refused to consider.
With the frontline relatively static since autumn, Russian forces have ground down their Ukrainian opponents in fierce fighting near Bakhmut/Artyomovsk, with an American mercenary commander recently acknowledging that Ukraine is suffering “extraordinarily high casualties” in that sector, and Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada, Vadim Pristaiko, describing his side’s casualties as “huge” and “indigestible.”
Kiev has publicly proclaimed that it plans a major offensive in the spring, but Rice and Gates wrote that Ukraine may have “weeks, not months” to stay in the fight.
To that end, they advocated sending the country more and heavier weapons. Although the US has already allocated more than $110 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine since February, they said that Washington won’t send heavy tanks. Germany “and other allies” should fill this need instead, they argued.
The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would give Ukraine 50 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles – the most modern armor sent to Kiev so far – as part of a $3 billion weapons package. France also pledged a number of wheeled ‘light tanks’, and Germany promised 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles.
Nevertheless, Kiev says it needs more. In an interview with The Economist last month, Ukrainian general Valery Zaluzhny said 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 the entire British or German inventory.
Russia, meanwhile, has repeatedly insisted that “pumping” Ukraine with weapons will ultimately have no effect on the outcome of the conflict and will only serve to prolong the hostilities and lead to more bloodshed.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (78.9k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 08.01.2023.
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM THE 'DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA' MAPPING CHANNEL (50.8k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘NEW WORLD ECONOMICS’ (28.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (15.7k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (134k subscribers):
Ukraine [8 Jan 2023] 'Today'.
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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 REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (123 subscribers):
Russians Take Control Of Soledar: Ukrainians Surrender And Flee Into Mines/Seal them In say Russians.
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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 (37.1k subscribers):
Soledar Front Quick Update.
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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.
