RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.06.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 20.06.2024
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.
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“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.
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Russia and North Korea agree on mutual aid against aggression – Putin.
Pyongyang has the right to defend its sovereignty against the US, the Russian leader has said.
Moscow and Pyongyang have pledged to assist each other against foreign aggression, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday during a visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Putin and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un, signed a strategic partnership which will serve as a roadmap for future cooperation in all spheres, from cultural and tourist ties, to trade, economic relations and security, the Russian leader has said, calling it “truly a breakthrough.”
“The document on comprehensive partnership that we have signed today provides, among other things, for mutual aid in case of aggression against one of the participants,” the president added.
Moscow supports Pyongyang’s intention to protect its security and sovereignty from possible Western aggression, which is its right, Putin said. The country considers the US and its allies responsible for the increasing tensions in the region, he added.
“Overused Western propaganda tropes can no longer hide their aggressive geopolitical intentions, including in Northwestern Asia,” Putin said.
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Putin noted that Western nations were supplying advanced weapons to Ukraine and have given Kiev the green light to strike Russia. Under these circumstances, “Russia does not rule out the development of military cooperation with the DPRK under the document signed today.”
The visiting head of state denounced the “indefinite restrictions regime” imposed on North Korea by the UN Security Council, which includes an arms embargo, as “orchestrated by the US” and urged for it to be revised.
The Russian president had previously warned the West over Kiev’s desire to use donated weapons to conduct attacks deep inside Russia. Should that happen, Moscow could send similar types of weapons to enemies of the West, which could use them to strike the military assets of the US and its allies, he said earlier this month.
Pyongyang has an “objective and balanced” stance on the Ukraine conflict and sees its core causes, which proves North Korea’s independence and sovereignty, Putin said. The two nations are also on the same page in supporting “a more just and democratic multipolar world” that should replace the previous Western-centric system.
READ MORE: Pyongyang welcomes Putin with spectacular ceremony (VIDEO)
”We will continue to oppose the imposition of strangling sanctions, which the West has turned into a tool of maintaining its hegemony in politics, the economy and other areas,” the president vowed.
Recalling the lengthy record of Russian cooperation with North Korea, Putin noted the role that the Soviet Union played in the fight against Imperial Japan during the Second World War and the reconstruction efforts following the Korean civil war, which split the Korean Peninsula between two rivals. Moscow was the party with which Pyongyang signed its first international agreement 75 years ago, he added.
Russia and North Korea agree on mutual aid against aggression – Putin.
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Western property could be seized – Moscow.
Russia retains a “wide arsenal of countermeasures” in the event that its assets are seized in the West, the Foreign Ministry has warned.
Russia has a “wide arsenal” of political and economic countermeasures to respond to the potential confiscation of its sovereign assets, including a tit-for-tat seizure of Western property in Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations agreed at last week’s summit in Apulia, Italy, to use interest from frozen Russian assets to secure a $50 billion loan for Kiev.
Zakharova pointed out that Russia has a “significant” amount of Western funds and property under its jurisdiction.
“All of it may be subject to Russian retaliatory policy and retaliatory actions. The arsenal of political and economic countermeasures is wide,” she told reporters at a regular press briefing on Wednesday.
Russia, however, will not disclose the nature of the retaliatory actions, Zakharova added.
G7 countries have approved in principle a US plan to provide Ukraine with a $50 billion loan issued against frozen Russian assets, to help Kiev buy weapons and rebuild damaged infrastructure.
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The idea is to use nearly $300 billion in Russian sovereign funds frozen in the West in the wake of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, as the basis for the loan. G7 countries would use profits from the assets to cover the debt interest.
Most of the frozen assets are being held in the EU. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said recently that the profits earned from the immobilized Russian assets amounts to around $3-$5 billion per year.
The G7 intends to disburse the funds through multiple channels, directing them to Ukraine’s military, general budget, and reconstruction needs.
Disagreements, however, remain among the US and its allies as to who will carry the loan risks if Western governments lose control over the Russian assets.
Moscow has repeatedly said it will treat any attempt to tap into them as theft, and will retaliate.
Western property could be seized – Moscow.
Islamic terrorists using Ukraine to enter EU — German spies.
Jihadists remain a major threat to the country, the country’s BfV security agency has warned.
Jihadist pose a serious domestic security risk to Germany, the country's BfV security agency warned on Tuesday, singling out the Afghanistan-based offshoot of the once-powerful terrorist organization Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS).
The group, designated ISPK by the German intelligence service, “has managed to bring followers to Western Europe, possibly with the wave of refugees from Ukraine, who are now staying here in various Western European countries,” Director General Thomas Haldenwang told the media on Tuesday.
The senior official and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser presented an annual report on the BfV’s activities, including a July 2023 operation involving a series of arrests in Germany and the Netherlands.
A total of nine people from Central Asia were taken into custody at the time for allegedly founding a “domestic terrorist group” and preparing major attacks on European soil. Seven of them lived in Germany.
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The group was allegedly in contact with ISPK, also known as ISIS-K, and had entered the European Union from Ukraine “almost simultaneously,” according to German security officials. The suspects were described as “black sheep” among Ukrainians when the arrests happened.
ISPK has a large number of supporters and calls for “major attacks,” Haldenwang said. He cited as an example the gun and arson massacre at a concert hall outside of Moscow in March, which the Afghanistan-based group claimed credit for.
Moscow believes that Ukrainian intelligence services had facilitated the Crocus City Hall attack, which left over 145 people killed. ISPK could have just lent its brand name to the plot, which helped the real mastermind recruit the perpetrators, Russian officials have suggested.
The BfV’s report is over 400 pages long and covers a wide spectrum of threats, from foreign espionage to domestic extremism to terrorism. The strength of jihadist terrorist organizations is estimated at 27,200 people.
Islamic terrorists using Ukraine to enter EU — German spies.
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USA
Putin’s North Korea Visit ‘Directly Challenges US Regional Clout’.
The results of the June 19 talks between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang are of paramount political importance to the entire Asia-Pacific region, experts told Sputnik.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement that aims to serve as a roadmap for future bilateral cooperation in all spheres.
The document on comprehensive partnership provides, among other things, for mutual military assistance in case of aggression against one of the participants, Putin told reporters after the face-to-face talks with Kim on Wednesday.
The Russian leader also denounced the "indefinite restrictions regime" imposed on North Korea by the UN Security Council (UNSC), which includes an arms embargo, as "orchestrated by the US" and urged for it to be revised. The Putin-Kim negotiations came as part of the Russian president’s June 18-19 visit to North Korea.
'Full-Blown Shift in Regional Paradigm'
The Russia-North Korea comprehensive partnership agreement’s clause on military aid stipulates allied relations between the two, Artyom Lukin, a professor of international politics at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, told Sputnik.
"Implications of the signing of the agreement have yet to be [fully] assessed, because this means a complete change of paradigm on the Korean Peninsula [and] in Northeast Asia [on the whole]," Lukin said. He recalled that right now, only the US has full-fledged military-political alliances in the region, including those with Japan and South Korea.
The fact that Russia has inked the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement with North Korea implies that "a completely different situation is now shaping on the Korean Peninsula, and that a Russian [-North Korean military] alliance has appeared in Northeast Asia," according to Lukin.
"This is a very significant thing, even against the backdrop of what is currently happening the world. The Russian-North Korean alliance poses a direct challenge to the military-political hegemony of the US in Asia and Pacific, namely, in Northeast Asia, which is the main part of the region," the analyst noted.
When it comes to the UNSC’s anti-North Korean sanctions, Lukin underscored that "certainly, there are ways to prevent these restrictions from interfering with the Moscow-Pyongyang collaboration."
Speaking to Sputnik, Dr. Victor Teo, a political scientist who specializes in international relations in the Indo-Pacific region, said that Putin’s proposal to review the UN sanctions on North Korea "is, of course, understandable in light of this agreement."
"The problem, however, is that this is probably easier said than done because the amendments probably need to be ratified by the other [UNSC] members, one of which is the United States," the pundit added.
He described Putin and Kim signing the deal as "a significant political and strategic development because it effectively links European security more tightly to Asian security in the formal sense."
"The DPRK would be obliged to help Russia defend itself if Russia gets into a conflict with NATO countries; just as Russia would be obliged to help Pyongyang if North Korea enters into a conflict with the US and South Korea," Teo pointed out.
Putin's N Korea Visit Reflects Sanctions' Inefficiency
Professor Joe Siracusa, a political scientist and dean of global futures at Australia's Curtin University, in turn, focused on the political implications of Putin’s visit to North Korea. In an interview with Sputnik, he said that the Russian president "is telling the Americans and the others" that his country has "not been isolated either by [Western] sanctions or by other things."
"Anyway, I think that Putin is showing that sanctions don't work. When he does this, he demonstrates to the world that there is an alternate universe out there. It's not a rules-based system that's determined in Washington and London, there's a rules-based system that evolves organically beyond this usual corridor of power. I think it's a very healthy achievement in that sense," Siracusa said.
Putin’s current visit is "the normal business of a nation," according to the political scientist.
"There is a common border with North Korea. It was Russian troops that liberated Korea in 1945 and supported the North Koreans in their civil war against the South Koreans. Russia has a long history of economic and security relations with North Korea. I think it's normal," Siracusa stressed.
On the whole, the Russian leader's state visit to North Korea was very impressive, the pundit evaluated, pointing to the fact that Putin "got the red carpet treatment’ and that "Chairman Kim came out to the plane to meet him."
The analyst rejected allegations by the American political and foreign policy elite that Russia and North Korea are "bad guys" who pose a threat to the West as being "absolutely false."
"This is the kind of that propaganda mill that goes on in Washington with the mainstream media playing sort of the Greek chorus for the American political elite," Siracusa concluded.
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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.
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UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
WHO OWNS “DEMOCRATIC” UKRAINE NOW?
Who is picking up the broken pieces of Ukraine at knockdown prices? Who will continue to pick up those pieces as prices slide further. The one with the deepest pockets that's who. Sovereign Ukraine is no more.
Ukraine up until the end of 2013 was a sovereign country with a population that was split between those who spoke Russian and those who spoke Ukrainian. It had a vigorous political culture where each faction was represented in its parliament, the Rada. Admittedly these factions fought not only with words at times but often enough with their fists. Still, the democratic system was there and functioned tolerably well. Electoral inspectors monitored the elections and delivered their verdicts. The east of the country voted one way, the west another, with mixed results in the centre. The choices divided quite clearly between the predominantly Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking populations.
The president and government of Ukraine that existed at the time of the Maidan riots had been democratically elected and had received the blessing of the officials who monitored the elections that had brought them to power. No one would claim that the riots, in which approximately 17 young policemen and over a hundred civilians died represented anything approaching a democratic process. Yet the entire western world welcomed the removal of the democratically-elected officials and their replacement by U.S.-approved replacements.
The above was only the start of the rot that has led us to the situation found in Ukraine today. The violence with which the new, West-sanctioned authorities came to power and which was predated by the violence often seen within the Ukrainian parliament (and often outside it) would torment the Ukrainian nation from late 2013 onward. This violence, meted out to those Russian-speakers of eastern Ukraine, was simply a continuation of a broken system and the rise of the violent ultranationalists who had created a reign of terror on Kiev’s Maidan.
Over 16,000 died in the reign of terror which continued from early 2014 to the present day. The vast majority of the dead were innocent civilians, however this hardly mattered to those who wished fervently to ethnically cleans the entire Russian-speaking population from eastern Ukraine. Such people cared not a whit whether men, women, children, neither old or young died as they fired mortars and missiles at their dwelling places day and night. Hospitals, schools, Soviet-era residential blocks were commonly hit due to their height. When mortars or missiles missed such targets they hit everyday homes and town centres killing at random.
It must be understood that the mentality of those doing the killing had been in existence in western Ukraine for a great many years. It incorporated a gang-like structure where young thugs delivered their own reign of terror, inflicted on anyone they deemed deserved it, usually due to the person speaking Russian or evidencing a pro-Russian stance. These thugs had slogans which they yelled as they paraded up and down the streets of western Ukraine such as “Russians on knives!” When they were not marching or beating people up they were having swastikas tattooed on their bodies or dawbing them on walls and Jewish gravestones.
This is the lawlessness of a minority of Ukrainians that received a huge boost of power in the years after the violent coup they had taken part in, in 2014, the coup blessed by the western powers and which had seen U.S. officials including a senator, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and the Assistant Secretary of State provide their fulsome support. The lawless behaviour where police were constantly attacked with every kind of weapon the rioters could devise did not faze the U.S. officials a bit, they blessed these acts of criminality looking forward to the day when they could have their choices of president and government take over.
The new president and government took power without the proper parliamentary majority to legitimise them. Nevertheless the primary figures (including those from the most extreme, Svoboda Party, formerly the Social-Nationalist Party among them) toured European capitals immediately afterwards feted by such prominent figures there as Angela Merkel. The West had achieved what it hoped for, it had trained the activists through western NGOs to initiate the changes they deemed necessary and deployed the most violent Ukrainian to complete the task begun by them.
The period between 2014 and 2022 saw western mass media emphasis a totally one-sided narrative concerning the conflict that began in eastern Ukraine. No mention was made of the siege of the areas that had risen up to reassert their right to have a say regarding who led them. The say they had previously enjoyed, to vote for those who represented their language and pro-Russian stance had been wrenched violently away from them by the coup of 2013-14. Now they were to be targeted as terrorists, every last man, woman and child. All would be blamed on ‘Russian aggression’, nothing was to be said of the daily and nightly barrage of mortar shells and missiles by the Ukrainian army.
While the attacks upon the civilian populations in the east occurred the illegitimate presidents and governments in the west set about jailing opposition figures and banning the Russian language from TV and radio. Yet another reign of fear and terror was initiated in what had once been a vigorous but generally law-abiding democracy. Things from this point went downhill at a faster and faster pace even as political and media elites in the West talked of a ‘Democratic Ukraine’. Ukraine was no longer democratic and the Russian response to this fact, the daily slaughter in the east of Russian-speaking civilians and the desire of the coup-leaders to create a dictatorship with a view to joining NATO provoked Russia endlessly.
The western powers pressured Zelensky to walk away from peace talks that were making progress in Istanbul just a month into the conflict. We can only assume that they believed that the combination of the barrage of western sanctions applied to Russia plus the amount and quality of weapons and munitions the West could supply the regime would bring about the defeat of the Russians. We have all been witnesses that neither worked out for the West and certainly did not work out for the Ukrainians. Between a thousand and two thousand Ukrainian troops are leaving the battlefield dead or injured currently. Half a million, most of them the best troops the Kiev regime could field, have departed. They are now regularly being replaced by older, far less well trained conscripts, many dragged forcibly off the streets.
But Ukraine is not only losing men, it is losing land. Each day Russia takes more territory. And, with Vladimir Putin’s deal where he offered to more or less stop where they are now being rejected Russia will inevitably continue to take more and more as the Ukrainian army crumbles. Ukraine is losing its ability to be a viable state. It’s economy is in ruins as is its energy production capacity. And finally, and arguably the most humiliating loss of all, Ukraine is losing what land it still retains and all the business enterprises on it, to the U.S. asset management company Blackrock. What will Ukraine look like at the end of this conflict, this seemingly endless process constantly pushed forward by the western powers? Your knowledge of the situation based on all of the above should allow your imagination and insight supply the answer.
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