RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 29.05.2023
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.
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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
Erdogan Wins Election, West Dismayed; Huge Rus Missile/Drone Strike, Ukr Offensive Doubt.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
US State Dept Gonzalo. Lindsey, Kiev video cut & paste. Erdogan wins. Athens Mayor S-300 to UKR? U/1
THE DURAN
Erdogan wins. What's next for Turkey?
DANNY HAIPHONG
Russia DESTROYS Western Sanctions Thanks to De-Dollarization.
RACHEL BLEVINS
U.S. SENATOR: 'The Russians Are Dying—It's The Best Money We've Ever Spent.'
RUSSIAN NEWS
Tours of the Kyiv "Circus Big Top" continue! Zakharova, Russia, Ukraine.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Erdogan and Nato’s giant setback.
AFROTONIC
We CAN GIVE RUSSIA WEAPONS, they are our ALLIES: Julius Malema on BBCHARDTalk, with Stephen Sackur.
SCOTT RITTER
How will victory be determined in the current situation?
How much ammunition are we using in Ukraine?
Alleged Weapons Of Mass Destruction!
How Many More Years Will This War Last?
MICHAEL ROSSI
Vladimir Putin Speaks at Plenary Session of the Eurasian Economic Forum - English Subtitles.
EMIL COSMAN
Video shows US Senator Graham's infantile comments: "Russians Dying Best Money We've Ever Spent."
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
⚔️ Ukraine Can't Win: 💥They Are On The Brink Of Total Annihilation.
RICHARD MEDHURST
All You Need to Know About the War in Ukraine in 5 Minutes.
BBC Disinformation Checker Is Ministry of Truth CRINGE.
REDACTED
BBC launches HILARIOUS "disinformation" department to keep you safe | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
JACKSON HINKLE
Putin FIRES OFF In Historic Speech Against Western Wokeism.
MILITARIAN
PMC Wagner Blows Up Hundreds Of Convoys Ukraine Military In Village Bakhmut.
BORZZIKMAN
Don't Think That Your Geographical Location Will Save You: Lavrov Shocked the US with His Statement.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
Incoming Thai Government Vows Obedience to US Foreign Policy: Myanmar to be First Victim.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Western Double Standard, No Help Given To Sudan Refugees While Everyone Ran To Help Ukraine.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
TURKEY SPEAKS - MOATS Episode 242
RFK Jr burning up the track.
INTERVIEW: Social media in Pakistan is controlled by military.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'NATO Yet To See Our Power': Russia's big warning amid Ukraine War | Details:
Pentagon admits Ukraine's inability to defeat Russian troops; Moscow lauds U.S. 'assessment'.
Over 40 Russian Kamikaze drones, cruise missiles rock Kyiv for second night in a row | Watch:
Putin's friend baffles neighbours with 'Nukes For All' offer; Belarus says 'West Left Us No Choice'.
Russia's Lavrov warns U.S.-led West for sending F-16 jets to Ukraine; 'Playing With Fire' | Watch:
Russia 'kills' 515 soldiers as Kyiv battles Kamikaze drones; Attack on Krasnodar oil refinery foiled.
Putin's new order for Russian borders guards; 'Ensure Rapid Military And...' | Ukraine War.
Erdogan wins historic Turkey runoff; Muslim world celebrates Islamist leader's victory.
Russia wrecks Ukraine with 'record number' of drones; Largest assault on Kyiv, other regions.
LINE FLUX
Venezuela's President Declares Inevitable Shift Away From US Dollar in De-Dollarization Push.
NOVARA MEDIA
Corporations Control Our Governments: Here’s How | Aaron Bastani meets Matt Kennard | Downstream.
THROUGH THE EYES OF…
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STEPHEN GARDNER
Russia-Ukraine War: Shocking Details Revealed by Ukraine, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times!
RUSSELL BRAND
RFK Jr. REVEALS How He Will RESTORE America!
KATIE HALPER
"The American Empire Is Shrinking" - Economist Richard Wolff.
AMIT SENGUPTA
What is De-dollarization | Reasons behind reducing dependency on US Dollar | Economy.
SMART SILVER STACKER
US China Plan Could Destroy Dollar.
BOLAZO⭕militar
⭕ RUSIA HACE ARDER LA TIERRA CON SUS SISTEMAS DE MISILES // THE EARTH BURN WITH ITS MISSILE SYSTEMS. ⭕
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 29th May 2023:
Russia hasn’t started to ‘act seriously’ in Ukraine – envoy.
The duration of hostilities is defined by NATO escalation efforts, Moscow’s ambassador to the UK, Andrey Kelin, has said.
The outcome of the Ukraine conflict hinges on whether NATO continues to prop up Kiev with arms shipments, Andrey Kelin, Russia’s ambassador to the UK, said in an interview released on Saturday.
Speaking to the BBC, when asked how long he thought it would take for the fighting to cease, Kelin replied that it “depends on the efforts in escalation of war that [are] being undertaken by NATO countries, especially by the UK.”
The envoy went on to say that “it is a big idealistic mistake to think that Ukraine may prevail,” adding that Russia is 16 times bigger than Ukraine and possesses enormous resources. He stated further that Moscow “hasn’t... started yet to act very seriously.”
At the same time, Kelin warned that “sooner or later, of course, this escalation may get a new dimension which we do not need and we do not want,” pointing to the UK’s recent decision to send Ukraine long-range missiles and tanks, as well as ongoing deliberations about potential shipments of modern aircraft.
However, he did not rule out that the conflict could be settled diplomatically, saying that the two sides “can make peace tomorrow.”
On Saturday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said that the Ukraine conflict could be resolved if Kiev were to ditch its ambitions to join NATO and the EU, recognize “new territorial realities” and designate Russian as a state language.
However, Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, dismissed the demands, insisting instead that to make peace, Russia must withdraw all its troops from the territory Kiev claims as its own, pay reparations and extradite “war criminals.”
Since the start of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Western countries have provided Kiev with billions of dollars in security assistance, a policy which Moscow claims makes the military bloc a direct participant in the hostilities.
The UK has emerged as one of Ukraine’s most active supporters, having committed £4.6 billion ($5.7 billion) in military aid. Earlier this month, London provided Kiev with long-range Storm Shadow missiles, which were subsequently used by Ukrainian troops to target the civilian population in the Russian city of Lugansk, according to Moscow.
In March, the UK announced that it would send Ukraine armor-piercing tank rounds containing depleted uranium, with the Russian Defense Ministry warning that the munitions would cause “irreparable harm” to soldiers and civilians alike.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Donbass Zugzwang | Air Defense Suppression. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.05.29
Massive Missile & Drone Strikes | Iranian-Afghan Border Conflict. Military Summary For 2023.05.29
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 458-459 (27-28/5): FIGHTING FLARED AT VELYKA NOVOSILKA; Serebryanka airstrike.
DPA WAR UPDATE
Commander's Briefing: Erdogan's reelected; Lindsey Graham saga; Nukes in Belarus; Lukashenko dying?
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front Update [29 May 2023].
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
Ukraine War May 28, 2023 The Russian Grind in Avdiivka Map and Combat Footage.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
Russians Are Regrouping l Ukranian Attacks.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
New Drone Footage Reveals Utter Destruction! | Full Front Update 29/05/23.
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 PR WAR OF WESTERN MEDIA ELITES IS IRRELEVANT TO THE BATTLEFIELD
There is a huge amount of deception and PR posturing going on regarding the situation in Ukraine but is there really much point to it, does it lead anywhere significant? I’m partly talking here about the YouTube videos that are giving a wholly false impression of how things are going in Ukraine. But also the national mainstream press and media across the western world are in the business these days of creating completely fanciful scenarios in which the Ukrainian regime is winning huge victories. The plain truth of the matter is that Russia is sooner or later going to achieve ALL its goals… and then some.
What we are seeing is ‘war mode’ psychology in action. In ‘war mode’ you can create any lie and exaggerate any circumstance if you feel it will strengthen home morale or even perhaps sap that of your enemy. In ‘war mode’ also you never, ever attribute any success to that enemy. If there has been any forward progress by the enemy, no matter how great, you must always minimise it saying that nothing very much was achieved. What is the result of all this deception perpetrated upon the still rather trusting western population?
People who have swallowed the entire western elite narrative about Ukraine will have their emotions manipulated every which way due to still retaining faith in their politicians and mass media. The BBC, constantly plugging away at the narrative about evil Russian bombing theatres, schools, hospitals and apartment blocks filled with civilians will pluck their heart strings and engender as much anger as any human brain can stand without exploding. The demonization involved is common to all wars. But the average Joe and Jill will most likely not realise that their normal sceptical views are being remorseless beaten into submission.
If you are irked by the amount of blatantly false news and narratives being distributed, especially on YouTube, then my advice ultimately is not to worry in the slightest about it. Yes, it does cause anger to arise at what are quite obviously either the result of extreme prejudice or blatant propaganda manufactured in western intelligence agencies. It does succeed most of the time in keeping the masses onside. But does it have any effect upon the actual battlefield? It does not.
This, taken as a whole, could easily be described as The Fake News War.
Just as Hitler and his closest associates were treated to a wartime version of manufactured false realities, so today we have the plethora of newspaper articles and television news programming we see today, TV news output and video on Ukraine are intended to give the erroneous picture of successive Ukrainian victories and Russian defeats, minimising Ukrainian losses to the max and exaggerating those of Russia.
Does any of this affect what goes on, on the battlefield itself or the tactics deployed by either side? Not in the least. Regarding the Russian high command all such verbiage will not appear anywhere on their radar. Those fighting on the ground have too many more important activities and concerns than searching out the latest article by The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New York Times or broadcast by the BBC, CNN or MSNBC.
Theatrics, PR campaigns, events designed for western public consumption and all the mass manipulation of western politicians and their cronies within mass media are completely irrelevant on the battlefield. The military high commands on both sides have their plan with their meticulously refined stages, they have a series of events within their campaign designed to achieve strategic targets. All else, all the spluttering venom, all the faux speculation, manipulative designs of western elites and the self-absorbed, self-seeking, self-important obsessions of the west-centric world can be of no possible interest or have any possible effect upon them.
Russia has got this and the Russian political and military elites prepared long and hard to make sure of it and all the fake news possible that all the various information-mongers of the West spew out across the largely, miraculously still extremely naive populations of the western world won’t make one iota of difference to the final result.