RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 17.06.2023
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.
*** IN FACE OF HUGE LOSSES, IS UKRAINE CHANGING TACTICS? ***
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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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Lead feature:
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
VLADIMIR PUTIN INTRODUCES A SHOCKING DOCUMENTARY FILM AT THE SPIEF CONFERENCE IN ST. PETERSBURG
The reaction of the audience, shocked and dismayed as they were is clear to see.
Video link: Short Documentary of Ukrainian Banderist atrocities during WWII.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Ukr Offensive Orekhov, Attacks Repelled; German MSM: Budanov Coma; Putin: Rus May Attack F16 Bases.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
South African delegation stopped in Poland. Putin; Leopards burn, so will F-16s. BRICS grows. U/1
THE DURAN
China war party vs. Russia war party.
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 74: Ask the Inspector.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
Vladimir Putin Addresses the Council for Interethnic Relations - 2023 - English Subtitles.
The Implementation of Russian State Policies in Ukrainian Regions - English Subtitles.
DANNY HAIPHONG
How US Sanctions on Russia Fueled De-Dollarization w/ Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
NATO's Bad Plan & the Ukrainian Offensive.
What Ukraine Would NEED to Win / It's a question of ManPower.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Eyewitness Donbas: Why the Majority Reject Ukraine’s Counter-Offensive.
SCOTT RITTER
"Russia just scored a DEVASTATING blow to Ukraine, THIS IS BIG" in Exclusive Interview.
Description Of NATO.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive stalled, Western fighters, Putin and the St. Petersburg Economic Forum...
THE GRAYZONE
Beginning of the end? - The Grayzone Friday live.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin Calls Zelensky 'Disgrace'; Claims Ukraine lost 200 Tanks in 'Dud' Counteroffensive | Watch:
Russia Crushes 'Global Dominance' of Dollar, Euro amid War; Why U.S., UK Should be Worried.
New Russian Flamethrowers, Tanks for Frontline Troops amid Ukraine's Counteroffensive | Watch:
Russia Trains Military to Down U.S.-made F-16 Jets in Ukraine Skies; Lavrov Drops Bombshell.
Putin Baits NATO with 'Will Burn F-16s' Remark; Installs Tactical Nukes in Belarus I Details:
Putin Unleashes Lutik-Kamikaze Drone to Crush Ukraine; Russia Enhances Iranian UAV amid War.
Putin's Special Bonanza for Blowing Up Western Weapons; Russian Soldiers Get Big Rewards.
India & China Turn Saviours For Russia Amid Western Sanctions, Purchase 80% Of Russian Oil In May.
Russia Dares West With Elections in Annexed Ukrainian Regions As Kyiv’s Counteroffensive Flops.
Putin Set To Meet Turkey’s Erdogan Amid Ukraine War | Russia’s Diplomatic Coup Against NATO?
THE HILL
FBI, Ukraine Intelligence PRESSURED Twitter To CENSOR Aaron Maté, War Skeptics: Report.
TRIBUN TIMUR OFFICIAL
🔴 Kiev losses in the South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions amounted to over 800 troops, 20 tanks.
🔴 In total since June 4, Ukraine have lost around 7,500 troops killed and wounded in front line.
🔴 Russia Fighter Jets vs Ukrainian Counter-offensive in Zaporizia and South Donetsk.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Trump Arrested, Ukraine Counteroffensive, Anti-China Hysteria & More!
MINTPRESS NEWS
British Police Detain & Interrogate Investigative Journalist.
EMIL COSMAN
The exact time the "West" shot itself in the neck. March 2022. Their decision to dive ALL in Ukraine.
Russia strikes Ukrainian '"decision-making center" with sea + air-based long-range precision weapons.
Narcissist Zelensky's narrow World view: "Either US goes to war with Russia, or NATO collapses."
Lavrov: "Anglo-Saxons are running the show, controlling the rest of the collective West."
Putin: "I can destroy any building in Kyiv city centre, but I won't." Number of reasons why he won't.
JACKSON HINKLE
Putin Is VERY Happy.
What the f*ck?
Ukrainians Surrender En Masse, Putin Takes VICTORY LAP At Economic Forum.
THE PRINT
Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Russian defence & 10 battlefield highlights on how a ‘hi-tech’ war looks.
BORZZIKMAN
The Latest Russian Anti-Tank Missile 9М127−1 'WHIRLWIND-1' is Rapidly Changing the Rules of WARFARE.
LINE FLUX
BRICS Alliance sees interest from 20 new countries ahead of Summit.
TECH REVOLUTION
BRICS AND OPEC JUST ANNOUNCED New MEGA Oil Projects That Will DISRUPT The Entire Oil Industry.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
China responds to Henry Kissinger's Bloomberg interview on eve of US Blinken's visit.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
U.S. Cybersecurity Vendors Become Accomplices in Political Smearing Campaigns: FM Spokesman.
CGTN
Iranian, Saudi FMs meet in Tehran.
LIU SIVIYA
THE NUCLEAR THREAT IS BACK: Zelensky's alarming declarations | liusivaya (InSpanish - English subtitles.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 17th June 2023:
Putin reveals Ukrainian counteroffensive losses.
Kiev has almost run out of its own war materiel and is heavily reliant on deliveries from abroad, the Russian president has said.
Ukraine has already lost more than 600 armored vehicles, including 186 tanks, during its counteroffensive effort against Russian troops, President Vladimir Putin told the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday.
“Their losses are very heavy – about more than one in ten compared to the Russian army. That is a fact. In terms of hardware, every day there is an increase in the loss of this materiel. To date, 186 tanks have been lost by the Ukrainian army and 418 armored vehicles,” Putin claimed, referring to the ongoing operation by Ukrainian forces.
READ MORE: Ten Ukrainian assaults repelled in single day – Moscow
According to the Russian president, Kiev has been deploying its strategic reserves for the counteroffensive effort, but has thus failed to achieve any of its goals. The rapid depletion of Ukraine’s own war stocks means it will have to rely solely on foreign deliveries, Putin suggested.
“You won’t be able to wage war like that for long. Our defense industry, however, is growing day by day,” he added.
Ukraine launched a large-scale counteroffensive on June 4, after Kiev and its Western backers had talked up the campaign for months. Moscow claims the operation has resulted in heavy losses for Ukrainian troops and has yielded only minor tactical gains. Kiev has remained largely tight-lipped, with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky admitting only that Russian troops were putting up “very tough resistance.”
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Russian Spring | Fierce Battles Are Going All Over The Front Line. Military Summary For 2023.06.17
The Intensity Of The Strikes Of The Ukrainian Forces Is Increasing. Military Summary For 2023.06.17
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
OFFENSIVE EXPANDED. New offensive operations around Donetsk City; Amphibious attacks at Kherson.
UKRAINE SURPRISE ATTACK WEST OF DONETSK; in area of Staromykhailivka & Krasnohorivka - Donetsk Front.
DPA WAR UPDATE
ULTIMATE UKRAINE WAR DISCUSSION on the planet : DPA Open Mic 33.
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine front update [17 June 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Defensive Operations.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
Stalled Ukrainian Counteroffensive l Russian Forces Stopped Ukrainian Forces.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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.
UPDATES TO BE ADDED HERE AS AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS.
THE WESTERN WORLD OF WRAPAROUND LIES
What proportion of the populations in western nations still believe what their politicians, media news moderators and pundits say concerning what’s happening in Ukraine? How many have decided, instead of being a sponge in front of their televisions and an avid reader of their daily newspaper on this subject, that they will make an effort to look for alternate sources that offer a different (and more accurate) perspective?
The percentage is important, or at least it will be, when the next general or presidential election comes around. Those who have realised they have been subjected to what is called ‘The Mushroom Syndrome’, i.e. Kept in the dark and fed a load of shit, are likely to be extremely angry and dismayed at this point. Who could blame them for doing all in their power to turf those who have lied to them so consistently, out of office as soon as humanly possible.
Those lies have not been mere fibs, tiny white lies that come from those who mean well and wish to protect those who hear them from realities that could harm them. No, these are whoppers, and as black as black can be, deceptions worked out in offices in Whitehall, Fleet Street and their equivalents in the United States. Those that have not emerged from them come from locations such as Langley Virginia where psychological operations (PsyOps) manufacture “news articles” to be seeded on distant shores to come floating home with their source disguised or from think tanks where all the thinking going on is about how to deceive most effectively.
The intelligence agencies in combination with lie factors have been slaving away night and day on the manufacturing of enough lies to gain the consent of western populations, to deluge them with these lies in a wall-to-wall, all-pervasive manner until they permeate every skull right down to the deepest subconscious. One of the main targets has been Vladimir Putin. Not since he was elected president in 2000 but only since 2007 when he gave an address (in Munich) where he disappointed all western elites by not agreeing to Russia being commanded by the USA and its allies. He stated that Russia would work closely with all parties to agree ways to stop nuclear proliferation, international terrorism and indeed all areas of mutual concern. However, none of his willingness to work with these elites was appreciated… only that he had said Russia would maintain its sovereignty and independence rather than be commanded from outside its borders. This was unacceptable by the western elites and had been since 9/11. Therefore Vladimir Putin required to be replaced.
The waterfall of attacks on Vladimir Putin began in the days, weeks, months and years only after his address to the ‘great and good’ elites of the western world on that cold February day in 2007. He would remain public enemy number one for them in perpetuity. He was to go and every attack dog across the political, media and intelligence elites was set to work on the task. Before his address Vladimir Putin was complimented, wined and dined, he and his wife were introduced to the royal family of the United kingdom, George W. Bush professed to looking in his eyes in 2001 and later said the following:
“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.”
There would be no more such talk after February 2007. If there was it was said in private and very soon those with reputations and careers they wished to retain in the mainstream realised they had to ‘get with the program’ and shut up. Not only that, they had to spit some conjured up venom about the man to prove their credentials for being acceptable members of elite society.
Take a look for yourself. See if you can find any of the invective about Vladimir Putin prior to that day in 2007. You will seek in vain. The avalanches of fear, loathing, disgust and every possible accusation under the sun all came after his address to that group of security council attendees, none before. The reason is easy to ascertain. 9/11 had convinced those running the western world, most of them in the USA and UK, that no even partially uncontrolled entity, agency or government that was not willing to take orders from them had to go and they determined they would do EVERYTHING possible to bring their demise about.
The above is the primary reason why those in the West continue to be deluged with deceptions from every elite across the political and media fields. Post 9/11 the West was in ‘war mode’. This means that all those not completely aligned with your interests become your enemies and you can no longer say a single positive thing about them or about anything they have done or are doing. On the other hand, everything you say about them, what they say and what they do must be negative. The latter case is what we have seen since 2007 in regard to Vladimir Putin and is what we see now in regard to him and to everything to do with Ukraine.
Ukraine, recognised as having the most corrupt elites in Europe if not the entire world must be talked of as if they are virtual saints, completely pure, spotless and innocent. No mention must EVER be made regarding the many thousands of innocent civilians that their army killed in the east of the country over the years 2014 to the present day. You may have noticed how the fact that the Ukrainian military shelled apartment blocks, schools, kindergarten, polyclinics, orphanages, hospitals and town centres for all those years on a daily and nightly basis never reached your eyes or ears during those years. This was no accident. This was of course by design.
It didn’t fit the needs of the ‘war mode’ agenda that came into being after 9/11 to relate the full facts about the years above in Ukraine. To have told western audiences about these ongoing daily atrocities would have mitigated against the goal of ousting Vladimir Putin which required that Russia be subjected to unlimited pressure to foment his downfall by whatever means was at hand. Demonizing Russia was the goal. Demonizing Putin was the goal. To let the fact of Russia’s enemy, the western-controlled Ukrainian regime post 2014 be seen for the demons THEY were was simply not even considered. Despite their crimes against humanity they HAD TO BE portrayed as total innocents subjected to egregious attacks by the demonic Russians led by the chief demon himself, Vladimir Putin.
This is where we have been since 2007 and to even greater extent since 2014 and ramped up to its fullest extent from February 24th 2022, bathed 24/7 365 days per year across the entire western world… in lies.
