RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 28.08.2024
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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“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.
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SHAMELESS WESTERN MEDIA IGNORED THIS:
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Russian Forces Hammer Ukrainian Defense Industry Facilities: What is Known so Far.
Russia has targeted defense industry facilities of the Kiev regime with a series of sweeping strikes, with an air raid alarm announced across the territory of Ukraine after 6 am Moscow time.
Ukrainian media has reported explosions in a number of regions: Kiev, Kharkov, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnitsa, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankovsk, Lvov, and Odessa.
As Russian forces hammered Ukraine’s targets, a series of explosions resulted in power outages in Kiev. In total, about a dozen explosions were heard in the city, according to the local pro-Russian resistance.
An energy facility was hit in Odessa, Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolayev underground, told Sputnik.
In the town of Stryi in the Lvov region, a major detonation occurred after a strike, and the power went out.
In Ivano-Frankovsk, a strike was carried out on a warehouse with military equipment, with the explosion occurring in an area where Ukrainian forces had also hid two F-16s, the pro-Russian underground told Sputnik. Strikes reportedly hit containers storing fuel and lubricants, with plumes of black smoke seen rising. Numerous ambulances were on the scene, with parts of Ivano-Frankovsk blocked by the military, Lebedev noted.
A precision strike targeted Ukrainian military personnel stationed In Volyn.
Moscow has repeatedly underscored that in targeting Ukrainian energy, defense industry, military command and communications facilities the Russian Armed Forces do not strike residential buildings or social infrastructure.
Russian Forces Hammer Ukrainian Defense Industry Facilities: What is Known so Far.
Kursk nuclear situation ‘serious’ – IAEA boss
Military action connected with Ukraine’s incursion into Russia poses a threat to nuclear security, Rafael Grossi has said
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi visits Kurchatov, Russia on August 27, 2024.
Military action taking place in the vicinity of Russia’s Kursk nuclear power plant poses a risk of a “nuclear incident,” Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told journalists on Tuesday.
The senior official visited to the facility located in the city of Kurchatov in Kursk Region on Monday, close to where Kiev launched a large-scale incursion earlier this month. Russian officials have previously accused Ukrainian troops of targeting the facility with drones, one of which reportedly fell next to the plant’s storage of spent fuel last week.
Grossi reiterated that the Kursk nuclear power plant has an older design that does not include some of the protections that a more modern nuclear facility would have. For instance, it does not have domes, which would shield its four reactors in case of a major incident, such as a plane crashing into it, he said.
The head of the UN watchdog commented on his previous comparison of the Kursk plant with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, saying it should not be interpreted as meaning an incident at the Kursk facility would be of the same scale as the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. However, Grossi said the agency is determined to mitigate the risks.
READ MORE: Kiev launches attack on Russian nuclear site – media
”This conflict, this war is not the responsibility of the IAEA. What is the responsibility of the IAEA – and we are going to assume that responsibility – is to make sure that no nuclear accident takes place,” he said, adding that his message would be the same everywhere.
In the end it may sound very common-sense and simple: don’t attack a nuclear power plant.
Before the visit, Grossi said he was closely monitoring developments in the Russian region and that his trip would allow the IAEA to conduct an independent assessment of the plant’s safety for the international community. He is scheduled to visit Ukraine next week.
Kursk nuclear situation ‘serious’ – IAEA boss.
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Russian Forces Liberate Orlovka Village in Donetsk People's Republic - MoD.
Units of Battlegroup Tsentr have liberated the settlement of Orlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, destroying up to 530 Ukrainian armed forces fighters overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
"As a result of an offensive, units of Battlegroup Tsentr liberated the settlement of Orlovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, struck formations of the 53rd and 110th Mechanized as well as 25th Airborne Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade in the area of the settlements of Vozdvizhenka, Rozovka, Novgorodskoye, and Sergeyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic. Seven counterattacks by units of the 150th and 151st Mechanized Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Units of the Battlegroup Sever repelled three counterattacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups during the day, the enemy lost up to 115 servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Russian air defenses shot down four Tochka-U missiles, three Hammer bombs and 31 drones launched by Ukraine over the past 24 hours, the ministry said.
Units of the Battlegroup Yug have taken more advantageous lines and positions during the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 780 servicemen, a Leopard tank and an armored combat vehicle, the ministry said.
Over the give period, Battlegroup Tsentr has repelled 7 counterattacks, eliminating up to 530 Ukrainian troops, the statement read, adding that Battlegroup Zapad has eliminated up to 490 Ukrainian troops.
The Russian armed forces have also launched a massive strike on critically important objects of the Ukrainian airfield infrastructure, the ministry said, adding that all targets have been hit.
Russian Forces Liberate Orlovka Village in Donetsk People's Republic - MoD.
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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.
ARE THE U.S. AND ITS ALLIES SEEKING A FOREVER WAR IN UKRAINE?
Can you spot the fatal flaw in any western plan to have the Ukrainians fight against Russia forever?
We hear a lot of talk about eventual peace negotiations ending the conflict in Ukraine. Yet, in one form or another both the Ukrainian regime and the spokespersons for the collective West set either impossible conditions for the Russians (in Kiev’s case) or set conditions that delay such negotiations indefinitely.
In the case of Kiev, Zelensky says that before any negotiations can take place Russia must remove all its troops from every inch of what he considers to be Ukrainian territory. Only once this is done can negotiations start? In other words Russia must capitulate, something Russia will never do.
The U.S. states that the conflict must be continued until the Kiev regime makes enough gains to give it adequate leverage at the negotiating table. With Russia taking ever more territory this only leaves certain theatrical attacks and the potentiality of the Ukrainian Kursk offensive to provide this. If Russia pushes all surviving Ukrainian troops out of the Kursk region this only leaves pinprick strikes using F16s and/or ATACMS/Storm Shadow missile strikes fired at Russian targets. It is extremely unlikely that Russia will put up with Ukrainian troops within the Kursk region for long, no matter what it takes to eject them and no matter how long that process may take and pinprick strikes are not going to bring Russia to the negotiating table, especially when the Russian military is moving quickly forward in the Donbass.
This leaves the question open as to whether the western powers really want peace negotiations to start… ever. Just as the Israelis appear to not really wish for any kind of ceasefire to take place in its war against Hamas. For the military analysts in Washington and their political equivalents it may be making sense to them to keep the conflict going on the basis that Russia will be weakened across several fronts if not the battlefront itself. It may well be that Russia taking ever more territory is not a problem for these individuals whose main concern is to undermine Russia any way they can. The Ukrainians in this scenario would be completely expendable. However, herein lies the rub.
For the planners in the Pentagon moving pieces on a chessboard where the USA wins whichever pieces are destroyed in the process may look very good. All the death and devastation is happening ‘over there’, not here. So what if Europe is going down the plughole economically, that just means more profit for us over here. We’ll help out… at a price. Ukrainians are dying? Okya, well it’s not really about them anyway, is it. They are the means to an end, and that end is the weakening of one of the two powers that are threatening U.S. global domination.
Keeping the pot boiling may well appear an excellent idea to those whose blood flows ice cold in their veins. It’s their job to make sure the USA and its allies stay on top and that those rising powers that are threatening to reduce the power of the USA and its allies are hit hard and weakened… no matter what it takes. You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, right? But there is a snag.
So far the estimated number of Ukrainian casualties is around 600,000 dead and wounded. Recent estimates put the rate of attrition of Ukrainian manpower at something over 1,000 per day. With the Ukrainian authorities hard pushed to get men to the front line to fight they are resorting to physically kidnapping off the street by force. Thousands have tried to flee with others almost never leaving their homes or doing so disguised as women. The recruiters are subject to attack and hundreds of their vehicles have been torched in recent weeks. In short Ukraine is going to run short of troops and especially so when it comes to highly trained troops.
How long can Ukraine continue to fight a Russian military that has been estimated to grow to 800,000 highly trained troops by the end of the year (this is the estimate recently provided by the Ukrainians). Russians are volunteering in droves and are receiving at least six months training. Those who have been fighting are by now thoroughly battle-hardened (but are kept refreshed by regular rotation). Ukrainian troops are barely trained at all in regard to the latest flow of cannon-fodder to the front. Those who are there are rotated only on an irregular basis and often must spend long periods at the front before being relieved.
Russia’s campaign to stop the Kiev regime from taking Ukraine into NATO, end its bombardment of the Russian-speaking civilians of the donbass region and to make Ukraine a neutral, demilitarized and denazified state on its border is a campaign of constant, well-coordinated and unstoppable attrition. Russia has the resources in depth to continue this campaign indefinitely while its major trading partners stay onside and they are not only staying onside but such partners are growing in number. When the USA and its allies failed to get nations such as India and Saudi Arabia to drop Russia as a trading partner along with many others who refused to do this, it was clear that Russia had all the time in the world, all the economic capability and all the manpower resources it would ever need to achieve all its goals in Ukraine.
Russia did everything possible to avoid what is happening now in Ukraine. Through seven hard years of negotiations Russia tried to convince, first Poroshenko and then Zelensky, to walk with it along the road to peace and reconciliation. Only to end up betrayed by both and by Merkel and Hollande (then Macron) also. Russia offered to negotiate with the USA and NATO on establishing a new security architecture in Europe to ensure future peace. This was rejected by both. Russia, after seeing that there was no further avenue to establish long-term peace and security for its people, tried to pressure Zelensky into making good on his promises of the Minsk Accords. This failed though Russian then initiated peace negotiations in Minsk then in Istanbul just a month into the conflict. Boris Johnson, Joe Biden’s emissary, convinced Zelensky to keep fighting and end the peace negotiations.
A month or so ago Vladimir Putin announced a peace plan of his own. If the Ukrainian military vacated the regions that Russia has already mostly liberated then there could be a halt to hostilities and negotiations could then begin in earnest. This peace plan from Russia was rejected.
So, what do you think? Who is it that is seeking peace here and who wants the fighting, dying, injury and destruction to go on? Ask yourself who benefits from the conflict continuing? Not only the U.S., British and European military industrial complexes which are clearly profiting greatly now (and due to the diminishment of western armories will do so for decades to come in replenishing stocks) but also the strategic planners who see great gains through using the Kiev regime as a tool to weaken Russia. (Not that this is occurring presently, Russia is, in most aspects stronger than ever now, as is its military.) The only losers here are the Ukrainians. Just imagine, 1,000 or more per day leaving the battlefield dead or grievously wounded. This latter fact is the major fly in the western planners’ ointment, the fatal flaw (literally) in their scheme to weaken Russia. Ukraine is going to run out of the very soldiers it needs to keep the horrendous meat grinders at the front going and of course, these cold-blooded westerners will not risk their own sons death or injury there. Not even after the last Ukrainian trooper dies.
