RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 21.08.2024
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.
*** A CRUCIAL POINT IN THE DONBASS HAS BEEN REACHED ***
“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.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
SHAMELESS WESTERN MEDIA IGNORED THIS:
Airstrike in Lugansk - 10 Year Anniversary.
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#Kursk #KurskRegion #KurskBattle #KurskOblast #KurskOperation
#Russian #Donbass #Pokrovsk #Toretsk #NiuYork #NewYork
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LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA INTELLIGENCE ANALYST): Where’s Putin’s Kursk Counter-Attack?
Large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow repelled – mayor (VIDEO).
Eleven UAVs have been downed in the vicinity of the Russian capital overnight, according to the Defense Ministry.
Russian air defenses have prevented “one of the largest” Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow, the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin, has said. There were no reports of casualties or damage on the ground, he added.
Sobyanin reported the destruction of the first UAV near the city of Podolsk, some 40km south of Moscow, at around 3am on Wednesday. Shortly afterwards, he stated that two other drones had been shot down in the area, adding that preliminary information indicated there were no casualties or damage.
In a series of follow-up posts over the course of about an hour, Sobyanin said several more drones had been destroyed, taking the total number to ten. He did not specify where exactly the UAVs had been shot down or what the target of the raid had been.
“The existing multi-layered defense of Moscow against enemy UAVs allowed to successfully repel all attacks... This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow with drones ever. We continue to monitor the situation,” Sobyanin said.
Several hours later, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that “the Kiev regime” had attempted to carry out a “terrorist attack” using drones, adding that 11 UAVs had been shot down over Moscow Region alone. The ministry noted that a total of 45 drones were destroyed over Russia overnight, with the bulk taken down over the border Bryansk Region.
READ MORE: WATCH Russian soldier shoot down low-flying Ukrainian drone
Ukraine has periodically tried to target the Russian capital – located more than 500km from the front line – with drone raids, although most of the UAVs have been neutralized short of their targets. Some of the strikes were aimed at government buildings and Moscow’s IT quarter.
One of the most high-profile attacks took place in May 2023, when Russia accused Ukraine of launching two drones at the Kremlin to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. The Russian leader was not present in the building at the time.
(Click on link below to watch video.)
Large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow repelled – mayor (VIDEO).
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THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA: LARRY JOHNSON / LIVE.
Complete Disaster.
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COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: Ukraine BufferZone in Kursk? Disaster Awaits.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY: Ukraine BANS Orthodox Church as Putin Promises DEVASTATING REVENGE.
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COLONEL LARRY WILKERSON: Russia CRUSHING Ukraine’s Army.
Putin makes a surprise trip to Chechnya and meets with its leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Putin Inspects Troops in Chechnya.
AMBASSADOR CHAS FREEMAN: Is Ukraine's Army REALLY Trapped?
Russia shows off Grom "loyal wingman" combat drone designed by Kronshtadt company.
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Russian spy agency names states enabling Kiev’s Kursk incursion.
The US, UK, and Poland trained the units that broke through the border earlier this month, the SVR has said.
NATO countries helped Ukraine plan and carry out the ongoing incursion into Kursk Region, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has said. Moscow has previously accused the US and other Western countries of enabling Kiev to strike deep inside Russia and target civilians.
“According to available information, the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk Region was prepared with the involvement of the security agencies of the US, Britain and Poland,” the SVR said in a statement published by Izvestia on Wednesday.
According to the SVR, the Ukrainian units that crossed the border earlier this month underwent training in Britain and Germany.
“Military advisers from NATO countries are helping with the coordination of the invading units and with the use of Western weapons by the Ukrainians,” the agency said. It added that NATO has been providing Kiev with satellite data on the movement of Russian troops.
Read more: Ukraine’s top general attacked Kursk out of desperation – Economist
Kiev’s largest incursion into internationally recognized Russian territory to date began on August 6, when Ukrainian troops attacked border posts and subsequently overran multiple villages, as well as Sudzha, a border city with a pre-conflict population of 5,000. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said on Sunday that Kiev intends to establish a “buffer zone” on Russian soil.
Ukraine’s Western backers have endorsed the attack. According to The Times, some of the fighters participating in the operation underwent urban combat training in the UK. The Ukrainian soldiers have extensively used Western-provided weapons in Kursk, including US-made Stryker and German-made Marder armored vehicles, some of which have since been destroyed by Russia.
Moscow arranged the evacuation of civilians from the affected areas and deployed additional forces to repel the enemy. According to the latest dispatch from the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev lost up to 350 troops and 25 armored vehicles in Kursk Region on Tuesday alone.
Russian spy agency names states enabling Kiev’s Kursk incursion.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-VENEZUELA-DPRK
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COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
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USA
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MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
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BRICS To Take Over Venezuela's Oil Sector?
AFRICA
The British Army Recruiting Africans And Caribbeans To Sacrifice Themselves For The Crown.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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EXPATS IN RUSSIA
New Russian Immigration Decree Will Change Many Lives!
MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
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Complete Disaster.
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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.
KURSK VS. DONBASS - WHO’S WINNING THIS WAR?
Appearances can be deceptive. Especially if a facade is expertly laid before western audiences by a mainstream news media that has nothing to gain in telling the truth.
While the entire western world focuses on what the Ukrainians are doing in Russia’s Kursk region where they have taken control of a large number of small villages and one town of some 6,000 souls the Russian military is achieving important strategic goals in the Donbass.
In a time when Ukrainian successes have been few and far between it is natural that the incursion into Russia is making the headlines across the NATO nations that comprise its support group. Only those paying sparse attention to detail can be unaware by now that Russia is in fact fighting a NATO force in Kursk, if not sheep-dipped NATO troops themselves then a Ukrainian force that has been brought up to NATO standard lately. Taking villages where the opposition is mainly civilian is not too onerous a task for such a force.
In comparison with what has faced the Ukranians till now, across the line of contact in the Donbass Russia has confronted fortified structures and defensive lines in depth built since 2014 when the president and government of Ukraine were overthrown, much to the delight of all western political and media elites. Those structures have allowed the Ukrainian military to pour shells and missiles into the civilian-populated hamlets, villages, towns and cities of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of the Donbass ever since that 2014 coup on Maidan Square in Kiev. Now the Russian military are taking those fortified lines down.
While the Ukrainian troops raid and loot supermarkets, spend their time throwing down Russian flags and putting up Ukrainian ones and occasionally shoot and kill civilians Russian troops have been taking significant territory and have just taken the large town of Niu York (now in the process of being renamed). The major cities of Toretsk and Pokrovsk will be next to fall. Toretsk is one of the most heavily fortified cities in the part of the Donbass still held by the Ukrainians. Russian troops entered its suburbs this week and it can only be a matter of time before it succumbs to their occupation.
The Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has slowed down significantly in recent days. The toll of dead and wounded among the Ukrainian forces runs from 1,500 at the lower estimate to 5,000. The path of the Ukrainian raiding parties to the north is now well and truly blocked. This was the direction that it was clear they wanted to move speedily in in order to reach and capture the Kursk nuclear power plant. That road is now well and truly blocked. In view of this the Ukrainians are attempting to expand to the west and east, but with very limited success. Meanwhile ever more Russian forces are gathering to expel them from Russian soil.
In the Donbass Russia is threatening the extremely important logistical hub that is Pokrovsk. Every day brings the Russian military ever close to their target. The Ukrainian military is fleeing before them hoping to establish better defensive position to the west. It will avail them nothing. Russia is operating to the strategy that has worked well for them thus far, that is the tactic of inexorable slow attrition. The Russian military high command have made sure that the entire 1,000km plus battleground is kept in coordination with all logistical resources in place along with enough troops to maintain them and the territory taken. The Ukrainians by contrast have applied a haphazard strategy that cannot possibly bring similar results.
Zelensky and those who take their command from him play the media game, looking for one piece of theatre after another hoping to impress their western sponsors into shelling out more of their taxpayers’ hard won cash. This has worked well up until recently when coffers and arsenals have started to run dry. Only in the last few days we have heard from Germany that it has come to the end of the road regarding emptying its state treasury into the Ukrainian money pit. The Kursk incursion is in part yet another piece of staged performance art from Zelensky and his compliant new commander, Syrsky. Like all the previous stagings the present one will provide only limited and temporary success while causing thousands of Ukrainian deaths and the destruction of military vehicles that will soon not be replaced in the same numbers by their sponsors.
While Kiev struggles to find men on the street to manhandle to the front as cannon-fodder Russia has again seen a surge in volunteers enthusiastic about receiving training in the Russian military before helping rid their nation of the recent infestation of unwelcome Ukrainians. An increasingly poorly-trained Ukrainian force will face them, one with a very limited supply of weaponry and munitions. The Russian military industrial complex is running at high gear and it can be expected that very soon the Ukrainians will pay dearly with an especially powerful and widespread missile attack all across what is left of Ukraine.
Who is winning? Clearly not the clown in Kiev, his forced are being whittled down in their thousands daily while Russia speeds on by their corpses to take ever more land and the important towns and cities that are about to fall to them within the next few weeks and months. While Zelensky fools himself and his western paymasters into endless dreams of victory the reality is that all diversion of attention toward Kursk will provide the emptiest of Phyrrhic victories possible… ultimately no victory at all. In fact a catastrophic defeat.
WESTERN UKRAINE DELUSIONS WILL FRAGMENT AS REALITY ASSERTS ITSELF
You can keep a certain storyline going for only so long and under certain conditions. We saw that in regard to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Ukraine is next.
Currently the number of so-called experts and other commentators who are trotted out to sell their wares regarding the subjects of Russia and Ukraine on YouTube is still high. Google, the search engine a high percentage of western populations use, has long since modified their algorithms to place the pro-Ukrainian, anti-Russian YouTube videos and articles at the top of search results on these subjects. It is almost impossible to find any independent and objective analysis via Google or other readily available search engines. This produces a completely skewed array of opinion that in turn provides an overall picture that excludes a good half (and in fact much more) of the reality on the ground.
The situation above is self-perpetuating to a significant degree. Half the story (or in fact much less) constantly told, produces a certain effect in those watching or reading who are already inclined (through lack of knowledge) to wish to hear this kind of material. In other words, an existing prejudice based upon initial encounters through western mainstream news media creates a certain need for reinforcement. An opinion that one side is bad and the other good thrives on hearing that one is correct in the earliest assumption fed by entities such as the BBC or CNN. And what is the end result of all this constant reinforcement of a highly partial reality? In a nutshell, delusion, or at the very least an almost complete lack of skepticism.
It is quite surprising after the era of regime change wars and the justifications used for them (mostly useful fabrications if not outright lies) that we find ourselves in that skepticism appears to be in such short supply. After all, we are in the Information Age, are we not? Almost everyone has access to a near universal array of facts concerning just about anything under the sun… if you know where to look. There’s the nub. Do we look? Are we interested enough to look, to look at things in the round? Or are we generally more interested these days in finding the “facts” that fit our way of looking at things (as guided by the news media that permeates our lives)? How many of us eschew the headlines and take the time to dig deeper below and beyond them? Does it even reach 0.1% of us? Yet, if you ask most people they will have an opinion about the conflict in Ukraine, and often a very strong one, a dismissive one even.
Does the average person really want to know the facts even? Is there not a risk they will engender emotions which the average Joe and jill would rather not have. Don’t blind me with facts they say. Just give me a headline that seems to make sense and a few paragraphs telling me how bad they are ‘over there’. Then I’ll be happy, satisfied that I know what’s going on and who to blame if the subject comes up in the pub or at the hairdressers. But overall let’s not talk about it.
The deluge of anti-Putin, anti-Russian sentiment on YouTube, in newspapers, magazines and books has been incessant longer than some of us have been alive. What else are people to believe, lacking the curiosity to examine any accusations in detail, but accept all of it as fact on the basis there’s no smoke without fire and surely all these supposedly intelligent people can’t be wrong? That truly independent experts would tell them that they certainly can be is not something most people are going to realize unless they happen to be motivated to dig deeper than the latest headline. Headline surfers will certainly sleep well at night on the premise that ignorance is bliss. Or else, when the powers-that-be consider it necessary they can be fired up emotionally to call for the actions those powers-that-be need from time to time.
We didn’t use to be such malleable sheep, made to sleep or bleat to order. There were times now long past when journalists attempted to deliver something closer to reality to their readers and viewers. There have been such people, believe it or not. If you are of a certain age you will know the names of the following: John Pilger, Seymour Hersh, and Robert Fisk. Of the three only Seymour Hersh survives. These were men of integrity and independence who tended to work freelance, seeking to find the core of the subject they were on the trail of, unaccepting of easy answers and one-sided narratives. Their much younger, modern day equivalents do exist but as with those they surely accredit as their heroes, they work quite independently of the main news media and the requirements they demand of them. Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté and Chris Hedges.
There has been a sea change in how journalism is done in its usual, mainstream incarnation. It is no longer particularly investigative. It has become more a channel to communicate views. The rot appears to have started after support for the Vietnam War was essentially brought to a close in the USA due to the reporting of facts. When the West’s regime change wars of choice began after the events of 9/11 journalists no longer covered them from the battlefield itself but were instead “embedded” among the various militaries taking part. They were given nightly briefings, i.e. they were essentially told what to report. This was a lot easier, safer and more comfortable for a new breed of journalists who found this quite convenient. It was also extremely convenient and helpful for the western states who wished certain narratives to be broadcast and certain inconvenient realities ignored.
So, here we are, now, in these modern times of war, war and more war within a news flowchart where certain facts are “okay” for distribution as they fit the chosen narratives of western political elites and where certain facts are not. Those who wish to manipulate certain expectations and emotions and dampen others can do so easily, and by this convenient chain of narrative creation build a fabricated, highly partial reality among populations conditioned to readily believe them, and to have their already existing prejudices reinforced. George Orwell would have no problem identifying the system that has been so deftly created with the complicity of all western mainstream news outlets. The wall-to-wall nature of totalitarian information control would be very familiar to him. It is just as he foresaw it in his novel ‘1984’ only in all its modern form, without the hero of ‘1984’, Winston Smith to undermine it.
From Wikipedia:
‘The story takes place in an imagined future. The current year is uncertain, but believed to be 1984. Much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. The Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance and, through the Ministry of Truth, historical negationism and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent mid-level worker at the Ministry of Truth who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. Smith keeps a forbidden diary. He begins a sexual relationship with a colleague, Julia, and they learn about a shadowy resistance group called the Brotherhood. However, their contact within the Brotherhood turns out to be a Party agent, and Smith and Julia are arrested. He is subjected to months of psychological manipulation and torture by the Ministry of Love. He ultimately betrays Julia and is released; he finally realizes he loves Big Brother.’
There is a somewhat happy ending in the case of the Russian-Ukraine conflict however. The actuality of which western publics are only granted (through the mainstream) to less than half, is breaking through the western media facade. Russian victories on the battlefields are becoming too obvious and too numerous now, they are becoming harder and harder for legacy media owners, editors, “journalists” and commentators to ignore. Much to their chagrin, actuality is starting to break through their carefully constructed “news” mirages of Ukrainian “success”. Tall tales concerning Zelensky, Syrsky and their talents and achievements are sounding thin and rather desperate. The recent incursion into the Russian region of Kursk is only the latest of a number of desperate schemes to generate enough headlines to make western populations believe they are being successful still.
The truth is that Russia is winning, has been winning and now is winning big. The illusion with which western news media elites have been deluding western viewers on YouTube and readers of print media is now unsustainable. The Orwellian milieu of creating lies absorbed by many in the West wish alacrity is failing fast. Russian territorial gains are happening at an ever faster pace. As these occur, more and more of those like Winston Smith who don’t like being lied to or being part of the fabrication factory that is western mainstream news, are speaking out. The percentage of those happy to hear comforting lies is reducing. No doubt they will seek out more lies to comfort them as time goes by… but those lies are going to be harder and harder to make convincing. And ultimately we will all be able to recognise the true situation and outcome of the Russian-Ukraine conflict, a total and absolutely conclusive, Russian victory.
