RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.08.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.08.2024
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.
*** KIEV REGIME DEATH WISH IN KURK BEING GRANTED BY RUSSIA ***
“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.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Putin: Ukr Tried Failed Strike Kursk NPP; Ukr Pokrovsk Disaster: Rus Troops Enter Novogrodovka.
#Kursk #KurskRegion #KurskBattle #KurskOblast #KurskOperation #Russia #Russian #Donbass #Pokrovsk #Toretsk #Ukraine #SMO
The Heat: Kyiv Is Expecting Severe Punishment, Russia Begins Counterattack. Military Summary 2024.8.23
That Was FAST! Russia Already Entered Novohrodivka Center.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: Harris crowned nominee. Putin decides Kursk response. Elensky wants Modi hug. Beyonce DNC no show.
RUAF Storm Toretsk & Novohrodivka | AFU Storm Koronevo | Worst Is Yet To Come.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - LT. COL. DANIEL DAVIS: It’s impossible to identify any military objective in Kursk incursion.
US preparing to lift ban on strikes deep inside Russia – Moscow.
Washington cannot be trusted over claims that Ukraine is prohibited from using certain weapons, Russian envoy Anatoly Antonov has said.
Claims by Washington that it has banned Ukraine from using US-supplied long-range weapons for strikes deep inside Russian territory cannot be trusted, Moscow’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, has said.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has resumed his calls for the country’s Western backers to allow long-range strikes on Russian territory during Kiev’s ongoing incursion into Kursk Region.
The Pentagon stated last week that its stance remains unchanged, and that Ukraine is still banned from using US-supplied ATACMS missiles, which have a range of up to 300km (186 miles), for attacks deep inside Russia.
Speaking to journalists on Friday, Antonov claimed that the US authorities “seem to be constantly teasing us by saying that today it is allegedly not allowed to use long-range systems to strike at Russian territory.”
“But in reality, they are essentially preparing the ground to simply remove all existing restrictions, at a certain point,” the Russian envoy added.
Read more: Ukraine not allowed to use long-range missiles in Kursk – Pentagon
Judging by Washington’s previous assistance to Kiev, including its training of pilots to fly F-16 jets, it is almost certain that Ukraine will “fight with US-made [long-range] weapons against us,” the ambassador said, as cited by TASS. “Where exactly will it happen? We cannot say or foretell,” he stressed.
According to Antonov, the administration of US President Joe Biden is becoming increasingly unpredictable. “There is no guarantee that the whole world will not change tomorrow when you and I wake up. How the Americans will behave in this situation is very hard to tell,” he said.
Russia must therefore “act decisively, increasing our military-industrial potential, because only our army and navy will protect our country,” the ambassador insisted.
Antonov also made a live appearance on Russia’s Channel One on Thursday, where he rejected claims by the US authorities that they had been unaware of the Ukrainian plans to attack Kursk Region.
“I am firmly convinced that in Kiev they do nothing without the go-ahead from their masters… They wouldn’t have dared to move a finger… in our direction without consent from Washington,” he said.
Commenting on the fate of Ukrainian troops who have entered Russian territory, the ambassador insisted that “no one has any doubts that they will be destroyed, not pushed back, but destroyed.”
READ MORE: Moscow accuses three NATO states of enabling Kiev’s Kursk incursion
Russia’s Defense Ministry estimated on Thursday that Ukraine has lost more than 4,700 troops and several hundred units of military equipment, including 68 tanks and 53 armored personnel carriers, since the start of the incursion in Kursk Region on August 6.
US preparing to lift ban on strikes deep inside Russia – Moscow.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU & ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Germany deindustrialized, taps out of Ukraine.
DANNY HAIPHONG - ANDREI MARTYANOV: Putin's REVENGE for Kursk Traps Ukraine's Army, NATO Collapse Looms.
SCOTT RITTER: Will Russia Attack NATO?
SEBASTIAN SAS: The West Turns On Zelensky As The Russian Army Breaks The Front.
EMIL COSMAN: Ukr troops retreat from Pokrovsk front. Rus to cross Vovcha River, Kharkiv. Ukr attacks Kursk NukePP.
RACHEL BLEVINS - SARAH BILS: Russia Forces Advancing in Donbass.
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER: Zelensky Prepares to Risk it All.
ANDREI MARTYANOV: Russia Obliterates Ukrainian Forces and Seizes Territory in Shocking Advance!
HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Has NATO Gone Completely Insane?
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA INTELLIGENCE ANALYST): Russia’s Move to Wipe Out Ukraine in Kursk.
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: NATO's Devastating Gamble.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: INTEL Roundtable w/ Larry Johnson (Ex-CIA Intel Analyst) & Ray McGovern (Ex-CIA Intel Analyst) - Weekly Wrap Up.
COLONEL LAWRENCE WILKERSON: Can Ukraine Hold Out Until Election Day?
UNITED NATIONS: Russia on Nord Stream Pipelines.
Russia Blasts French Missile System To Pieces In Kursk; NATO Weapons On Putin's 'Target'.
BORZZIKMAN: KURSK MASSACRE: Russian Marines Are Brutally Massacring NATO Soldiers and Elite Ukrainian Army Units.
Zaporozhye, Kursk Nuclear Plants Objects of Criminal Terrorist Acts of Ukraine.
Last week, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev, in a phone conversation with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) cheif Rafael Grossi, drew attention to the deteriorating security situation at the Zaporozhye and Kursk nuclear power plants due to the reckless actions of the Ukrainian side.
The Zaporozhye and Kursk nuclear power plants are objects of criminal terrorist acts of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik on Friday.
"The Zaporozhye and Kursk power plants are objects of criminal terrorist acts of the Kiev regime," Zakharova said, adding that Kiev, like the Islamic State terrorist group*, "has in its arsenal extensive schemes of terrorist activity — from blowing up civilian infrastructure and killing civilians to nuclear terrorism."
Earlier, the Zaporozhye plant's communications director told Sputnik that the backup high-voltage line of the plant had been disconnected by the Ukrainian side, but the exact reasons were unknown.
"The high-voltage power line 'Ferrosplavnaya-1' was disconnected by the Ukrainian side. Damage is on that side. The exact reasons are unknown," she said.
International Atomic Energy Agency experts have been informed about the situation, the communications director added.
Rosenergoatom, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom told Sputnik on Friday the Kursk nuclear power plant was operating normally, the radiation situation at the site was normal.
"The station is operating normally. The radiation background is at natural levels," the subsidiary said.
Zaporozhye, Kursk Nuclear Plants Objects of Criminal Terrorist Acts of Ukraine.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-VENEZUELA-DPRK
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CAPTAIN MATHEW HOH: Israel, Its Own Worst Enemy.
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COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
LENA PETROVA: Slow Motion Crash: De-dollarization Continues as States Ditch the USD & Trade in Local Currencies.
USA
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER: A Destructive Foreign Policy.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS: US Government in Search of Enemies.
EMIL COSMAN: FBI arrests Black DC Councilman for denigrating the Rothschilds and praising Louis Farrakhan.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
Very Heavy Clashes On The Pokrovsk Direction⚔️ Toretsk Defense Collapsed💥Military Summary 2024.08.23
RUAF Storm Toretsk & Novohrodivka | AFU Storm Koronevo | Worst Is Yet To Come.
RUSSIA ENTERS TORETSK; Klishchiivka explodes! | Ukraine War Frontline Changes Report.
Russian Pressure Offensive Continues.
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.
HOW WILL THINGS END FOR UKRAINE, RUSSIA & THE COLLECTIVE WEST?
Zelensky, on borrowed time, makes his last desperate but futile efforts to retain relevance to his sponsors & stave off inevitable defeat. What will the future hold for all parties to this struggle?
We are now well within the end game of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Russia’s special military operation has been sustained despite all provocations from the Kiev regime that might have turned it into a war. What is the difference between the SMO and a war some may say. The difference is easy to point to. If Russia had declared war on the Ukrainian regime there would not be a single Ukrainian government office still standing. The power grid of Ukraine, degraded now, would have been obliterated along with any attempt to repair it. No trains would run as every station, substation and means of powering those trains short of coal would be non-existent. Zelensky would have died almost immediately. His fellow travelers and assorted minions within his so-called government would have breathed their last, perhaps during the early destruction of the Ukrainian parliament building in Kiev. Those who wonder about the SMO and why Putin said near its start that Russia hadn’t even got started yet when early on certain commentators were aghast at what the Russian military was doing.
Russia began the SMO with a relatively small military force designed to push Zelensky into doing what he had committed to with the signing of the Minsk Accords later ratified at the United Nations. Merkel and co. now say they never meant for the agreement to be honoured, that it was only a stalling tactic to let the Ukrainian military be brought to a NATO level of readiness and to build fortification lines in depth to keep the Russian-speakers of the Donbass region in a siege to be shelled into submission. The Minsk negotiations went on from 2015 to late 2021. You can imagine to what degree the Ukrainian army was strengthened and to what depth those fortifications were built in those years, strength in depth that has presented a formidable barrier to Russian progress… till now. Now we are in the end game, at the last stage of the conflict where the final lines of fortifications are being broken through. Beyond them lies an open path for the Russians to progress quickly all the way to the east bank of the Dnieper River. This was not what Russia wished for. Not at all. The Minsk process was meant to bring renewed peace and reconciliation. All that was required was that the Russian-speakers be allowed to live in peace and security with a requisite degree of autonomy. This was achievable through Minsk and was again almost attained a month into the conflict in Istanbul. The western powers never saw peace and reconciliation as positive outcomes. Weakening Russia through war was their goal.
Now, so many years of needless conflict later Zelelenky’s desperate last gasp strategy of initiating an incursion into the Kursk region of Russia can be seen to be failing heralding the end of this sorry chapter of world history. His last throw of the dice will reveal him as the clear loser of this conflict for all the world to see, a world that will soon then turn its back on him. All previous talk of resemblance between Zelensky and Winston Churchill will be an embarrassment to those who slapped his back and offered their undying support less than a year before. Biden’s memoirs will conveniently shorten the entire Ukraine episode to a few vainglorious paragraphs that ignore the humiliating debacle he authored along with the drone assassin, Barack Obama. Mainstream media news hawks who offered constant delusional opinions about a sure Ukrainian victory will fall suddenly silent before focusing on the next regime change goal of the constantly warmongering West.
Russia, massively strengthened after its victory over the entire collective west will benefit from its well-earned status as primary advocate, along with China, of the multipolar world that will then be moving forward apace. Russia will begin the task of bringing all its new regions and the standards for those within them up to the level of the rest of Russia assisted by its partners within the BRICS group. The number of nations queuing to join the BRICS will be seen to expand still further while those remaining within the now disgraced orbit of the USA, UK and EU will shrink by comparison. What is left of Ukraine will sink into the memory hole of non-existence for western nations, an embarrassment, a failed, economically non-viable state that constantly seeks even more assistance from sponsors now seeking every means to divorce themselves from it. NATO will have no option but to desist in its ambitions as a new, Russia-neutral government and president takes the place of Zelensky and his horde changing the Ukrainian constitution forever ruling out NATO membership.
Historians, upon the capitulation of the Zelensky regime, will bemoan the fact that the end result of the push to get Ukraine into the western orbit via NATO, was doomed from the start. All the insightful comments made by such as George Kennan, the acknowledged architect of the West’s containment policy of the Soviet Union will be quoted. Those who care about such things will finally have their say on why so much relentless stupidity by the western powers was carried on for so long, with them doubling down endlessly, digging ever deeper into the hole they had dug since the NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 when George W. Bush insisted that a statement was to be made saying Ukraine and Georgia would one day join NATO.
To end this sorry tale of disastrous western hubris and lust to retain global hegemony, read George Kennan’s views concerning the expansion of NATO eastward toward Russia’s borders after the fall of the Soviet UNion and Warsaw Pact. Why were his words not noted by such as Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden as they deserved to be? Reckless irresponsibility, blind ambition, needless fear and sheer ignorance brought our world to the brink of nuclear war and led directly to the death or grievous injury of over half a million human beings and in the process caused the destruction of an entire nation.
Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X
New York Times May 2, 1998.
‘His voice is a bit frail now, but the mind, even at age 94, is as sharp as ever. So when I reached George Kennan by phone to get his reaction to the Senate's ratification of NATO expansion it was no surprise to find that the man who was the architect of America's successful containment of the Soviet Union and one of the great American statesmen of the 20th century was ready with an answer.
''I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,'' said Mr. Kennan from his Princeton home. ''I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.''
''What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was,'' added Mr. Kennan, who was present at the creation of NATO and whose anonymous 1947 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, signed ''X,'' defined America's cold-war containment policy for 40 years. ''I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe. Don't people understand? Our differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime.
''And Russia's democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we've just signed up to defend from Russia,'' said Mr. Kennan, who joined the State Department in 1926 and was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1952. ''It shows so little understanding of Russian history and Soviet history. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are -- but this is just wrong.''
One only wonders what future historians will say. If we are lucky they will say that NATO expansion to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic simply didn't matter, because the vacuum it was supposed to fill had already been filled, only the Clinton team couldn't see it. They will say that the forces of globalization integrating Europe, coupled with the new arms control agreements, proved to be so powerful that Russia, despite NATO expansion, moved ahead with democratization and Westernization, and was gradually drawn into a loosely unified Europe. If we are unlucky they will say, as Mr. Kennan predicts, that NATO expansion set up a situation in which NATO now has to either expand all the way to Russia's border, triggering a new cold war, or stop expanding after these three new countries and create a new dividing line through Europe.
But there is one thing future historians will surely remark upon, and that is the utter poverty of imagination that characterized U.S. foreign policy in the late 1990's. They will note that one of the seminal events of this century took place between 1989 and 1992 -- the collapse of the Soviet Empire, which had the capability, imperial intentions and ideology to truly threaten the entire free world. Thanks to Western resolve and the courage of Russian democrats, that Soviet Empire collapsed without a shot, spawning a democratic Russia, setting free the former Soviet republics and leading to unprecedented arms control agreements with the U.S.
And what was America's response? It was to expand the NATO cold-war alliance against Russia and bring it closer to Russia's borders.
Yes, tell your children, and your children's children, that you lived in the age of Bill Clinton and William Cohen, the age of Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger, the age of Trent Lott and Joe Lieberman, and you too were present at the creation of the post-cold-war order, when these foreign policy Titans put their heads together and produced . . . a mouse.
We are in the age of midgets. The only good news is that we got here in one piece because there was another age -- one of great statesmen who had both imagination and courage.
As he said goodbye to me on the phone, Mr. Kennan added just one more thing: ''This has been my life, and it pains me to see it so screwed up in the end.''
Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X
