RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 30.08.2023
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.
*** UKRAINE REGIME DESPERATE, REDUCED TO PIN PRICK ATTACKS ***
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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:
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Ukr Stuck Rabotino, Syrsky Worries Kupiansk, Bakhmut, Ukr Rus Drone Attacks; French Rocked by Gabon.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Drone hits Russia, Pskov airbase. 30km from Estonia. Tucker & Orban. Gabon coup? Macron panics. U/1
THE DURAN
Shokin returns. Biden impeachment inquiry gains momentum.
STEPHEN GARDNER - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
U.S. Pentagon DESPERATE To Cover Up Ukraine’s Defeat.
FIRSTPOST
Russian Foreign Ministry Press Briefing | Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Airport.
JACKSON HINKLE
West COLLAPSING While Russia RISES.
NATO's Estonia Attacks RUSSIA? Tucker Carlson Says NATO IS DONE.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Lukashenko: about Putin, Prigozhin, Poland and BRICS | Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, PMC Wagner.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Biden Looks to Handcuff Future President on Ukraine, Drones Hit Russian City Near Estonia, and More.
Dr. FRIEDRICH GLASL
It's Not Just A Proxy-War. It's Worse.
REDACTED w/ PATRICK LANCASTER
EXCLUSIVE: What Russians really think of the U.S. and Ukraine war.
PATRICK LANCASTER
American Air To Surface Rockets Hit Center Donetsk Russia Ukraine War (Special Operation).
GARLAND NIXON
WARRIOR UPDATE 39 - ROBOTYNE AND RUMORS OF A ZELENSKY COUP.
JEFFREY SACHS
Geopolitical Ambitions - A Global Struggle for Influence.
EMIL COSMAN
Biggest Russian missile+drone attack on Ukraine since Spring. Military Intel, Command Facilities hit.
The "mighty" Ukrainian attack on Kursk airbase didn't destroy ANYTHING. Satellite imagery reveals.
Military coup in Ukraine against Zelensky possibly soon. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson + Scott Ritter.
Russian aircraft destroyed 4 rapid Ukrainian vessels carrying up to 50 paratroops in the Black Sea.
"Not sure Prigozhin is dead." EU needs "reliable confirmation." Prigozhin buried in St. Petersburg.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Battlefield Ukraine - Update, Massive drone strike on Russian regions, Polish POW's, Coup in Gabon…
DEEP WEAPONS
Russia Unveils New Unmanned Ground Vehicles UGV Can Carry Weapons and Explosives.
TUCKER CARLSON
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Speaks About Sharing the Border with Ukraine.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Ukrainian Troops Killed, NATO weapons Destroyed In Russian Attacks From Bakhmut To Black Sea.
Hungary Ready For War? Viktor Orban Says 'Unlike Germany, We Will Fight If...' | Details:
Putin's 'Most Powerful Strike' On Kyiv After Thwarting Drone Attacks In 6 Russian Regions | Details:
Russia Blows Up Ukrainian Boats In Black Sea; Kyiv's 'Special Operations' Team Bombed Near Crimea.
Putin Admonishes Biden Over New Ukraine Military 'Trigger'; 'Height Of Hypocrisy...' | Watch:
'Pro-Russia' Hungary 'Unmasks' EU At Its Own Forum; Says Bloc 'Diminishing Because...' | Watch:
After Niger, Coup In African Nation Gabon | Military Takeover Announced On Live TV | Details:
NATO Nation Poland's Military Secrets 'Leaked'; Group 'Linked' To Russia Attacks Polish Varsity.
DANNY HAIPHONG - PROFESSOR RICHARD WOLFF
Richard Wolff on How Europe DESTROYED Itself in America's War on China.
REDACTED
SHOCKING U.S. teaming up with ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria to target civilians.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
BONGO DRUMMED OUT - MOATS with George Galloway Ep 269.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
Outed Gabon President cries for help in video message, as citizens celebrate Gabon coup.
KATIE HALPER
Atomic Fallout: Nuclear War, Oppenheimer & Fukushima W/ Lesley Blume, David Hecht, Alex Wellerstein.
THE CONVO COUCH
Niger Blocks Transport to French Embassies As Macron Approved Invasion Against "Dictators & Teousts".
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Macron BANNED as Another African Coup CRUSHES the WOKE West.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
African Union Forced To Expel After Its Military Revolted Against French Rule.
SINO SPHERE
Macron Ashamed As Niger Exposes French Dirty Tricks, Kicks Out French Ambassador & Welcomes China.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
Ending the Dollar Dominance. BRICS Leads the World in Shifting from Weaponized Dollar to Gold.
LIU SIVAYA
COUP IN GABON: who is behind it and who is harmed? | liusivaya. (In Spanish, English subtitles.)
ALEXANDRE GUREEIRO
O iate de Putin e a cilada da Rússia em Zaporozhye.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MICHAEL BRENNER
The Origins Of The Neocons And Their Lunatic World View.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 30th August 2023:
Washington is waging war on Russia ‘to the last Ukrainian’ – Moscow.
Russia’s embassy in the US condemned the new arms shipment as “the height of hypocrisy”.
The US government has announced another round of military aid for Ukraine worth $250 million, including artillery shells, air defense munitions and mine-clearing equipment. The latest weapons transfer comes as Kiev attempts a wave of attacks on Russian cities as part of its straggling summer offensive.
The State Department outlined the new lethal aid on Tuesday, noting that Ukraine would receive additional munitions for the HIMARS rocket system, AIM-9M air defense missiles, Javelin and other anti-tank weapons, as well as 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
Russia’s embassy in Washington later condemned the weapons transfer as “the height of hypocrisy,” saying US officials “will not give up the concept of fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.”
The embassy went on to connect the aid to recent comments by US Senator Mitt Romney, who declared that American assistance to Kiev was helping to “weaken” both Russia and China at a bargain price, calling the aid “the best national defense spending I think we’ve ever done.”
“Without a second thought, [Romney] said bluntly that ‘the United States is diminishing and devastating the Russian military for a very small amount of money. We are losing no lives in Ukraine,’” the embassy continued. “His words dot the i’s and cross the t’s. The lives of citizens of other countries do not matter much.”
Drawn from existing stockpiles, the new $250 million arms package brings direct US military aid to Kiev to more than $43 billion since the conflict with Russia escalated last year. Despite significant support from Western sponsors, Ukrainian forces have struggled to reclaim territory in their much-vaunted summer counteroffensive.
Though Kiev is aiming to capture a swath of land toward the Azov Sea coast in the hope of severing Moscow’s land bridge into Crimea, behind the scenes US intelligence officials have raised doubts about its chances for success, according to the Washington Post. Instead, officials believe Ukraine will fall “well short” of its “principal objective.”
Amid lagging efforts to reclaim land, Ukrainian forces have increasingly turned to strikes further into Russian territory, including a series of attempted drone bombings in Moscow in recent weeks. Early on Wednesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said air defenses continued to intercept UAVs, and had repelled several coordinated attacks across five different regions.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL
Summer operation| The Ukrainians Need Another Army Corps To Take Verbove. Military Summary 2023.8.30
Ukraine Launched A Massive Drone Strike On The Territory Of Russia. Military Summary For 2023.8.30
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
FULL FRONT UPDATE: Ukrainian Attacks on Verbove, UAV Strikes in Russia.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
NIGER-MALI-BURKINA FASO military pact; Algeria steps in; ECOWAS Tinubu holding back war; France sad.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, August 28th
HS MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Major Battles Unfold | 2 More Leopards Losses Totals 33 | 400 Thousand vs 500 Thousand Soldiers.
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, until this week, you could have found the video where Scott talks of his commitment to get the facts out on events in Ukraine. However, this week YouTube deplatformed two of the channels Scott appears on using the completely false charge of him using ‘hate speech’.
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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 CATASTROPHIC MISTAKES OF THE WEST AND THEIR DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES
The entire elite panoply of the western world has been undermined and unrecoverably damaged. Its power to effect changes in the world and to manipulate outcomes has been reduced significantly and will inevitably reduce to an ever greater extent. The catastrophic series of mistakes made by the West’s political elites, continuing as they do to this day, have damaged and continue to damage the present and future well being and standard of life of all westerners.
The degree of damage that these mistakes and miscalculations have wrought is inestimable. The effects will be felt by all future generations in the West and historians will inevitably assign blame where it is due even though those involved seek by every possible means to justify themselves and to cover their tracks today. This will be cold comfort indeed for the general populations of those countries who have lost so much at their hands and who will surely seek justice before too much longer, but in vain.
The genesis of the present and future catastrophe for the West lies in a combination of hubris and ignorance. It has been the level of institutionalised overconfidence in the overweening might and influence abused repeatedly in recent years (to little positive and much negative effect) that has led directly to this point. It appears no lessons were learnt from the negative outcomes seen plainly by the rest of the world. Contrition appears to have been totally absent concerning these failures, there being an unacceptable risk of denting the confidence that had to be maintained at all costs.
The institutional blindness created among western political elites regarding past failures and their desperate need to shore up confidence in the face of the goals set up post 9/11 to transform the world in their favour, meant that a disaster at some level was inevitable. But what made the disaster so incredibly catastrophic, continuing to this very day and showing no sign of diminishing, was the continual doubling down in the hope of eventually finding a way to prevail and achieve those goals.
The anvil that has broken every western hammer brought down upon it is of course Russia. The primary hammer that western politicians believed would crack Russia forever and drive it out of the league of great powers was of course Ukraine. Ukraine was the tool the West believed would be used to devastating effect in the undermining of their secondary target Russia, before engaging in the campaign against their most important target of all, China. The political and military failures of the West,along with their disastrous consequences, from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya and Syria were consigned resolutely to the past. This time they would succeed as they knew they must. Failure was not an option. There was no Plan B when it came to the goals set after 9/11. To relent was unthinkable. For these reasons and despite monumental failure, doubling down was considered the ONLY option.
The Miscalculation.
There is a certain “Yes Sir!” mentality within the highest echelons of the U.S. political hierarchy in particular which sees a reflection of sorts across all its allies, particularly so in the United Kingdom. This evidences itself in a determination only to reflect confidence and deliver what is asked with as few questions asked as possible. In the environments where this mentality prevails reality fast fades from discussion replaced by a show of confidence, positivism and a perpetually maintained can-do approach. The vital details of reality are replaced by a vacuous level of overconfidence that initiates ever greater degrees of blindness which over time breed a fantasyland where mistakes of enormous proportion become inevitable.
Russia was portrayed in the political circles of the West as weak, a ‘gas station with nukes’. Those who new better within the U.S. state department and UK foreign office had long been silenced due to the effects of 9/11 whereby only information that helped achieve the post-9/11 goals was required. All western intelligence agencies were politicised to one degree or another and that of the USA to by far the greatest degree. Being realistic was out of fashion, hard facts with which to come to sound conclusions began to be replaced by politically useful soundbytes. The myopia of the political decision makers of the West once institutionalised could not help but grow until it led to the complete disaster we see unfolding before us now.
Russia was no longer weak by early 2022 when the disaster for the West began to unfold. The notion that Russia remained unchanged from the catastrophic Yeltsin years continued to hold sway in the fantasyland milieu of western elite mindsets. She would be a pushover, her undermining would be easy. And so an entire roster of financial and economic sanctions were prepared. In order to unleash these against Russia it was required that Russia be cornered with no way out but to enter the trap set for it. Ukraine was of course the trap and the baiting of that trap and the channeling of Russia toward that trap continued all the way from 2014 to the early months of 2022. There would be no escape for Russia, every possibility of a peaceful outcome to the Ukraine question would be denied.
No matter how much Russia attempted to avoid the trap set for her no such escape was allowed. For the USA and its allies it was vital (due to the requirements of the post-9/11 goals) for Russia to be destroyed and Ukraine was the only way seen to effectively accomplish this. Russia was weak, the economic tools to dismantle her were in place, all that was needed was to allow her no escape from the jaws of the Ukrainian trop that awaited her. No diplomatic escape was to be encouraged. In late 2021 Russia put forward proposals for the creation of a new security architecture for Europe whereby a framework for stability and trust could be erected. It was dismissed. Just as the Minsk Agreements had been a ploy to set Russia up for the initiation of the trap and to ready the forces necessary to destroy Russia within it so this last attempt at finding a diplomatic settlement by Russia was also doomed to failure.
The western elites succeeded and on February 24th 2022 Russia entered the trap set for it and her military crossed the border into Ukraine. The trap closed and remains closed to this day. Russia remains inside. But the expected death of Russia within that trap has not occurred. Quite the reverse has occurred. Russia grows in strength despite the efforts of the West to double down time and time again, continuing to do so even now. Russia continues to win, not lose, both within that trap set for her and internationally.
The defeat of the current Ukrainian counteroffensive, the growth of the BRICS group and the obvious signs of economic and political distress in the West point with absolute clarity at a trap gone horribly wrong. It is the western world that is suffering, not Russia, the western elites who set the trap are being inexorably humiliated even while they continue to pour ever more scarce financial resources into Ukraine. It is their economies that are tottering toward recession with high inflation, not that of Russia. Russia, on the other hand, is showing economic growth and is ever more closely embraced by nations worldwide, in Eurasia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Global South, particularly so in Africa.
The catastrophic mistakes and miscalculations made by the political elites of the western world are monumental in scale. Vast financial resources have been squandered in constantly feeding their lost gambit to undermine Russia in Ukraine while vital infrastructure in their home countries increasingly show signs of major distress. The dominance of the dollar, for long seen as supreme, is now being seriously challenged by nations no longer as scared of the economic whip the USA and its allies could apply to them. Aligning with BRICS in their droves provides a long-sought level of protection. A strong China and strengthening Russia mean they have reliable, trustworthy allies to depend upon and trade with who are vitally interested in their well being as trading partners and who can and will invest in them and their future success. The tyrants to the west, the all-domineering and forever manipulating colonisers and exploiters who abused and threatened them for so long can now be treated as they deserve with a disgusted revulsion.
And left to descend into the economic, political and social morass which they have so ignorantly, arrogantly and so very blindly, created for themselves.