RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 12.11.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 12.11.2023
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.
Please note: Due to being in transit updates for the 13th of November will be delayed until early evening. Our apologies for this alteration to your daily updates.
*** ISRAEL & UKRAINE: BURNING THROUGH WESTERN WAR BILLIONS ***
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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:
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
West Admits Ukraine is Losing, Little Can Be Done to Change this Fact.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Al-Shifa Hospital Siege; Muslim States Press Ceasefire; ICC Referral Israel; Calls Zelensky Ouster.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Nord Stream coordinator caught. Macron, next month will decide war. Arab League split on Gaza. U/1
THE DURAN - ALEX CHRISTOFOROU - ALEXANDER MERCOURIS
Russia, Kazakhstan alliance and Reindustrialization. Putin in Rostov, confidence grows.
THE HILL
Mainstream Narrative On Ukraine-Russia War CRUMBLING, Conflict Is Unwinnable: David Sacks.
REDACTED
Putin's redline is DEVASTATING for the unipolar order, and he's not BLUFFING.
CYRUS JANSSEN
Ukraine War is Finished (You Won't Believe What Happens Next).
SCOTT RITTER
"Ukraine has LOST more than 90% of it's ARMY. WE WASTED BILLIONS!"
STEPHEN GARDNER - RAY MCGOVERN
Ex-CIA: Israel Bombs Gaza Tunnels as Putin crushes Ukraine forces.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Update on Ukraine, Escalation in the Middle East, Q&A...
Battlefield Ukraine - Update, Latest on escalation in the Middle East, Finland vs China, ISS...
THE HILL
Ukraine War LOST? Zelensky's FAILED Counteroffensive Means Peace Negotiations MUST HAPPEN NOW.
Tucker & Theo Von ROAST New Speaker Mike Johnson Over Prioritizing ISRAEL Over America.
BORZZIKMAN
AVDIIVKA's Surrender Is On The Horizon: Russians Took Full Control Of 'STEPOVOYE'┃Ring Is Shrinking.
EMIL COSMAN
Support for Ukraine slowly disappears. Several EU countries refuse to sanction Russia.
Russia will close the war in Ukraine. Russia has 800 precision missiles ready for massive attack.
The West presses Ukraine to make "land-for-peace" deal with Russia. More Western officials advise.
Accident? 5 US Special Operation Troops Killed in Military Aircraft Crash in Eastern Mediterranean.
Power outages in 6 Ukrainian Oblasts after Russian massive drone/missile attack.
"Next month could decide Ukraine conflict." Macron. Ukraine Army refuses to fight, concedes defeat?
Poland to quit EU. Poles with B@lls Nationalists urge during 90,000 strong march in Warsaw.
We have no Rights, only temporary Privileges. Give Police power to ban Pro-Palestinian protests?
Massive Pro-Palestine rally in London, 300,000 people. The authorities are scared. Media lost.
Who controls the "West?" It knows it lost in Ukraine. What interests push West to self-destruction?
U.S. lost control of Middle East. The Arab/Islamic Leaders Unite while at Saudi Arabia Summit on Gaza.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Russia is shocked and deeply outraged.
KATIE HALPER
Rabbi Explains How Israel Makes Jews LESS Safe.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
WITHOUT MERCY - MOATS with George Galloway Ep 290.
March for Palestine - central London Saturday 11 November.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Al-Qassam Fighters Kill Five More Israeli Soldiers In Gaza Fighting.
Arab Nations To Cut Oil Supplies To Israel? Proposal At Saudi Meet On Gaza Rejected By UAE, Others.
Hezbollah Chief Reveals Group's New Weapons; Israel Threatens To Turn Beirut Into Gaza.
Missiles Fired From Lebanon Wreak Havoc In Israel; Civilians Wounded, Cars On Fire | Watch:
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Hezbollah ATGM fire on a gathering of Israeli soldiers near Ramim barracks.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
Israeli Siege Kills Baby In Gaza Hospital, Muslim Nations Unite.
DUE DISSIDENCE
Max Blumenthal GRILLS State Dept. Spox AGAIN Over US-Israel Policy.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Palestine: Hospitals are working now as shelters for displaced citizens in the Gaza Strip.
Middle east leaders condemn Israeli crimes at summit on Gaza.
CGTN EUROPE
Hezbollah promises to keep Israel border ‘active'.
Counter protesters arrested after scuffles with UK police.
SEAN FOO
America Warns China To Obey As U.S. Debt Auction GOES BAD.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Pro-Palestine marches continue in western cities this weekend.
6th China International Import Expo ends with massive deals as firms sign up for next year’s event.
CHINA-FOCUS-CNF
"China's Surprise 'Lunar Cave Exploration Program' Leaves Biden Sleepless.
STEPHEN GARDNER - ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Obama Accidentally Exposes His Real Intentions.
CGTN
Chinese built railway inaugurated in Bangladesh.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Western Media Caught Lying || Western Media Biased In Their Coverage Of Africa And Middle East.
TECH REVOLUTION
Companies Abandon Europe, Industries In Chaos, Energy Crisis Worsens | EU Downfall Begins.
ASIA QUICKTAKE
A POLITICAL CROSSROADS. U.S. Faces Difficult Decision to Return to Gold Standard.
SILVER STACKER
⚡SET UP FOR A MASSIVE CRISIS - US Debt Downgrade - Cyberattacks - Why Silver Is DIRT CHEAP.
KITCO NEWS
Gold And Silver Are About to Take Off, 6 Reasons Why.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Self-Destructive Policies.
Articles published by Russia Today (RT) - 12th November 2023:
Stop sending young Ukrainians to die, Musk tells Zelensky.
“History will not look kindly” on leaders who needlessly sacrifice their troops, the Tesla CEO has said.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky must avoid needlessly sending young Ukrainians to be slaughtered on the battlefield with Russia, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said. His comments come amid Kiev’s faltering counteroffensive, which Moscow claims has already left tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers dead.
Speaking in an interview with US podcaster Lex Fridman released on Friday, the tech billionaire was asked whether he believed Zelensky should negotiate peace with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Musk did not provide a straight answer, but noted he would “just recommend [that Zelensky] do not send the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in trenches,” regardless of whether he engages with Putin or not.
“Whoever goes on the offensive will lose massive numbers of people and history will not look kindly upon them,” he added.
The Tesla CEO has weighed in on the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev on numerous occasions, noting in September that the Ukrainian counteroffensive that began in early summer had brought “so much death for so little [gain].”
Musk previously floated a peace plan suggesting that Kiev should recognize Crimea as part of Russia, while the four former Ukrainian territories that overwhelmingly voted to join Russia in referendums last autumn should redo the votes under UN supervision. The idea, however, sparked a backlash in Ukraine. Andrey Melnik, the country’s then-ambassador to Germany, told Musk to “f**k off.”
Moscow has repeatedly said it is open to talks with Kiev, although last autumn Zelensky signed a decree banning all negotiations with Russia as long as Putin remains in power. He reaffirmed this stance earlier this month, again ruling out any concessions to Moscow.
Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been underway since early June but has failed to gain any significant ground. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has estimated Kiev’s losses at more than 90,000 troops, while pointing to deteriorating morale in the Ukrainian military.
Ukrainian officials, including Zelensky, have admitted serious difficulties with the campaign, blaming them on delays in Western assistance, formidable Russian defenses, and Moscow’s air superiority. Earlier this month, Ukraine’s top military commander, General Valery Zaluzhny, acknowledged that Kiev’s troops were unlikely to achieve a “deep and beautiful breakthrough” unless they gained a technological edge over Russia.
Stop sending young Ukrainians to die, Musk tells Zelensky.
Senior Ukrainian officer coordinated Nord Stream blasts – The Washington Post.
A Ukrainian colonel identified as Roman Chervinsky was “integral” to the sabotage operation, the outlet claims.
A Ukrainian military officer serving with the nation’s Special Operations Forces played a key role in the high-profile attack on the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines in autumn 2022, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing its sources among the Ukrainian and other European officials as well as “people knowledgeable about the details of the covert operation.”
Identified as Roman Chervinsky, a Ukrainian colonel, 48, was reportedly responsible for managing logistics and support for a six-person sabotage team that carried out the attack, WaPo said. The man reportedly had deep ties with Ukrainian intelligence and the military.
He allegedly served with a Special Operations Forces unit responsible for coordinating sabotage and subversive activities on the territories controlled by the Russian forces. The officer also occupied senior positions in the Ukrainian military intelligence and the national security service (SBU) and was “personally close to key military and security leaders,” the US media outlet said.
Chervinsky reported to Major General Viktor Hanushchak, who, in turn, communicated directly with Ukraine’s top military commander, General Valery Zaluzhny, according to WaPo.
The officer did not lead the Nord Stream sabotage operation, WaPo reported, adding that he also did not act alone and was not responsible for its planning but was merely acting on orders from more senior Ukrainian officials reporting to Zaluzhny.
Chervinsky himself denied any role in the sabotage through his attorney. “All speculations about my involvement in the attack on Nord Stream are being spread by Russian propaganda without any basis,” he said in a written statement to the US media outlet. The officer was arrested in April 2023 on charges of abusing his power in another Ukrainian intelligence operation. The man claimed his arrest was politically motivated and accused senior officials in President Vladimir Zelensky’s administration, including his top adviser, Andrey Yermak, of being Russian “spies.”
In August, the German media reported that all evidence in the Nord Stream sabotage case points to Ukraine. Those familiar with the probe “consider the clues [pointing to] Ukraine to be particularly convincing,” Germany’s ZDF broadcaster said at that time, adding that “there is no reliable evidence” that would suggest Russia could be behind the attack.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, built to deliver Russian natural gas to Germany, were destroyed by underwater explosions off the Danish island of Bornholm in September 2022. The Western media have since repeatedly reported that the evidence found in this case points to Ukraine. Kiev denied its involvement in the incident.
The attack was allegedly carried out by a group of saboteurs that chartered a sailing yacht, ‘Andromeda’, using a fake passport. The vessel was then reportedly used to transport the explosives to the blast site. According to the German media’s August report, the group that chartered the yacht was in Ukraine before and after the explosions took place.
Although several European nations, including Germany, Sweden and Denmark, launched their probes into the incident, none of the claims made by the media about the identities of the alleged perpetrators were either confirmed or denied by the officials to date.
Senior Ukrainian officer coordinated Nord Stream blasts – The Washington Post.
Ukraine aid cut from GOP-backed stopgap funding bill.
The legislation, which is aimed at preventing a November 17 government shutdown, is not backed by the White House.
Republican US House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a new stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown that does not include funding for aid to Ukraine or Israel. Johnson had earlier insisted that the issue of assisting Kiev should be discussed separately, with many other Republicans reluctant to continue aiding the embattled country.
The two-step temporary spending proposal, also known as a continuing resolution, was rolled out on Saturday. It would extend funding for some government agencies until January 19 and for some others until February 2. The plan came out just a week before a looming shutdown deadline on November 17 that could leave many US civilian workers and military personnel without pay.
Johnson remarked that the stop gap measure would “place House Republicans in the best position to fight for conservative victories” and “stop the absurd holiday-season omnibus tradition of massive, loaded up spending bills introduced right before the Christmas recess.”
He also argued that separating the bill from the supplemental funding debates puts the GOP “in the best position to fight for fiscal responsibility, oversight over Ukraine aid, and meaningful policy changes at our southern border.”
The White House, however, was quick to dismiss the proposal as “extreme,” with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre describing it as “a recipe for more Republican chaos and more shutdowns.”
Last month, the administration of US President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve a massive $106 billion assistance package for Ukraine and Israel that also would have provided money for the southern US border. However, the GOP opposed the measure, with Johnson signaling that his party wanted to “bifurcate” the issues of Israel and Ukraine.
In this vein, the GOP-controlled House earlier this month passed a stand-alone $14.3 billion bill to help Israel in the fight against the Palestinian armed group Hamas, but it was later blocked by Democrats in the Senate.
Many Republicans have long been critical of providing assistance to Ukraine, rebuking President Joe Biden over what they believe is a lack of clear strategic goals and accountability. The US leader has consistently said that Washington intends to support Kiev in its fight against Moscow for “as long as it takes.”
Meanwhile, the White House has recently warned that money in existing programs for Ukraine is running out, while urging Congress to approve new funding to send “an important message” to the world.
Ukraine aid cut from GOP-backed stopgap funding bill.
Ex-NATO chief wants Ukraine to join without lost territories.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen wants the US-led military bloc to impose a de facto no-fly zone over the areas still controlled by Kiev.
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that Ukraine should be invited to join the bloc as soon as possible, even if partially. The ex-bloc chief argued that the threat of an Article 5 intervention would force Russia to wind down its military operation.
Even Ukraine’s most vocal supporters admit that Kiev cannot join the military bloc as long as the conflict with Russia continues. However, Rasmussen believes that inviting Ukraine within its de facto borders would limit the threat of escalation with Moscow.
“The absolute credibility of Article 5 guarantees would deter Russia from mounting attacks inside the Ukrainian territory inside NATO and so free up Ukrainian forces to go to the frontline,” Rasmussen told The Guardian.
Article 5 of the NATO treaty stipulates that an attack on one member state triggers a response from the whole alliance, so the bloc would have to join the conflict in Ukraine and fight against Russia if Kiev is admitted now.
The Guardian wrote that Rasmussen believes his proposal is akin to imposing a no-fly zone over the territories still under Kiev’s control and would deter Moscow from pushing forward. “To make Article 5 credible there would have to be a clear message to Russia that any violation of NATO territory would be met by a response,” he added.
At this year’s gathering in Vilnius, Lithuania, the bloc stopped short of offering Ukraine a clear timeline for accession, infuriating Kiev. President Vladimir Zelensky called it “unprecedented and absurd,” but eventually softened his rhetoric, describing the overall outcome of the summit as “positive,” due to the creation of the NATO-Ukraine Council and the removal of the requirement for a Membership Action Plan for Kiev.
Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister who led NATO between 2009 and 2014 and became a “non-staff” Ukrainian presidential adviser in 2016, believes that the bloc’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington next summer would be the perfect time to officially extend the invitation to Ukraine. “We need a new European security architecture in which Ukraine is in the heart of NATO,” he said.
Russia has for years opposed NATO’s eastward expansion as a threat to national security. President Vladimir Putin cited the bloc’s involvement in Ukraine as among the key reasons for Moscow to launch its military operation against Kiev.
The US-led military alliance first declared the inclusion of Ukraine as one of its objectives in 2008, dismissing Moscow’s warning that the move would cross a red line. After the 2014 coup in Kiev, the new Ukrainian government dropped the nation’s neutrality policy and said that joining NATO was its primary goal. Since then, member states have trained and armed the Ukrainian army and established military infrastructure in the country without formally accepting Kiev’s membership bid, Moscow said.
Ex-NATO chief wants Ukraine to join without lost territories.
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DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ DPA Open Mic 52 ] A world divided. A war whimpering.
Ukraine SITREP D625-626.
Ukrainian solders surrender to overwhelming number of Russian storm troopers at Robotyne (Работино).
HS MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
Highly Succesfull Russian Advance Near Stepove l Russians Are Storming Stepove.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Russian Shaping Operations.
Russian Assault Units Storm Stepove.
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.
