RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 26.08.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 26.08.2024
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.
*** NOTHING WILL STOP RUSSIA LIBERATING THE DONBASS NOW ***
“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.
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Ukraine Loses 1,900 Troops in Special Operation Zone in Past Day.
The Ukrainian armed forces have lost 1,900 servicepeople in the special operation zone over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Ukrainian formations lost up to 130 personnel in the areas of operations of Russia's Northern grouping in the Sumy and Kharkov regions. Meanwhile, the Southern grouping improved its positions along the frontline, causing Ukrainian forces to lose up to 630 servicepeople and a US-supplied Abrams main battle tank, the ministry said in a bulletin.
Russia's Western grouping repelled five counterattacks and inflicted significant losses on five Ukrainian brigades, with enemy losses estimated at around 510 soldiers. In the course of counter-battery warfare, two US-made 155-mm M777 and M198 howitzers, one Polish-made 155-mm Krab self-propelled artillery system, three 122-mm D-30 howitzers, one US-made 105-mm M119 gun and four Ukrainian ammunition depots were destroyed.
Ukrainian formations also lost up to 130 personnel and a French Caesar self-propelled artillery system in the area of responsibility of the Eastern troop grouping, the bulletin said.
Forces from the Central grouping continued their advance into the depths of Ukrainian defenses, repelling seven counteroffensives and eliminating over 500 enemy soldiers and two tanks.
Meanwhile, Russia's Dnepr forces eliminated up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed two 152 mm D-20 howitzers, an Enclave-N electronic warfare station, as well as five vehicles in various locations in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, according to the bulletin.
Russian forces also targeted a temporary deployment area for foreign mercenaries as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 147 areas. Russian air defense systems shot down six US-made HIMARS rockets and 41 drones.
Ukraine Loses 1,900 Troops in Special Operation Zone in Past Day.
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Pope condemns Zelensky’s crackdown on Ukraine’s largest church.
Kiev must not stop people from praying in whatever church they want, the pontiff has said.
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus blessing from St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City, August 25, 2024 © Getty Images / Vatican Media
Pope Francis has said that he “fears for the freedom of those who pray,” after Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky signed a law effectively banning the country’s largest Orthodox church. The ban has been condemned in Moscow as “satanic.”
Zelensky signed a law on Saturday banning all religious groups suspected of having ties to Russia and giving the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) nine months to sever all ties with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The law was signed despite the UOC having already declared full autonomy from the Moscow Patriarchate two years ago. Since Russia’s military operation began in 2022, Kiev has used the UOC’s alleged links to Moscow to justify raids on church properties and the arrests of priests.
“I continue to follow with sorrow the fighting in Ukraine and the Russian Federation. And in thinking about the laws recently adopted in Ukraine, I fear for the freedom of those who pray,” Pope Francis said in his weekly prayers on Sunday.
Read more: Hundreds of Ukrainian Orthodox pilgrims defy procession ban (VIDEO)
“A person does not commit evil by praying,” the pontiff continued. “So let those who want to pray be allowed to pray in what they consider their Church. Please, let no Christian Church be abolished directly or indirectly. Churches are not to be touched!”
Zelensky described his de-facto ban on the church as “a step towards liberation from Moscow’s devils.” However, UOC spokesman Metropolitan Klyment described the law as an attempt to seize the church’s property for transfer to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), a non-canonical organization established by the government of Pyotr Poroshenko after Ukraine’s US-backed coup in 2014.
“The Ukrainian Orthodox Church will continue to live as a true church, recognized by the overwhelming majority of practicing Ukrainian believers and local churches around the world,” Klyment said in a statement last week.
The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the ban as a “powerful blow against the whole of Orthodoxy,” while former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Zelensky of “full-fledged Satanism.”
Ukraine “will be destroyed, like Sodom and Gomorrah were, and the demons will inevitably fall,” Medvedev said on Friday.
Read more: Crackdown on Ukraine’s largest church is ‘full-fledged Satanism’ – Medvedev
Pope Francis has repeatedly called for peace talks between Kiev and Moscow, and has offered to mediate between both sides. Zelensky rejected this offer last year, and again in March when the pontiff called on Kiev to show “the courage of not leading the country to suicide” and to sit down to talks with the Kremlin.
Last month, Zelensky met with the Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, in Kiev. “I think all of us understand that we have to finish the war, as soon as possible,” he said after the meeting, before adding that Ukraine’s so-called ‘peace formula’ remained the only settlement acceptable to Kiev.
Following that meeting, Parolin said that the formula – which calls on Russia to pay reparations to Ukraine and hand its officials over to face war crimes tribunals – is “not enough,” and that Russia must be included in any negotiations.
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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.
WHAT ARE THE TRUE FOREIGN POLICY GOALS OF NEOCONS & SUCCESSIVE U.S. ADMINISTRATIONS?
We're told the goals of US elites wishing to transform the world are idealistic. These are to spread democracy, freedom & human rights. But are these their true goals?
Clearly successive administrations of the USA believe in what they are doing. We hear their representatives talking constantly about democracy, freedom and human rights. But are these their true goals? As far as we know from the literature that is most identified with the neoconservatives (Neocons), the document titled ‘THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY’, we can say there is one extra goal to the three above that is required to bring the others about, that is to attain the preeminent dominance of the United States of America as the primary global administrator, judge, jury and executioner.
Ensuring democracy, freedom and the observance of human rights worldwide in perpetuity requires the level of supreme global dominance the Neocons and successive U.S. administrations (especially since 9/11) are seeking. It requires full spectrum dominance, complete and enduring global oversight. On the face of it the goals above may appear to be eminently positive ambitions. A world where democracy is everywhere, all populations live in freedom with human rights observed at all times. Criminal activity would be almost impossible as every human could be tracked precisely 24/7.
You will of course have immediately spotted a certain irony in the plan to bring about freedom for all. No one could fail to notice that currently we see a very definite attempt to close down freedom of speech for some of us at least. Add to this the deep flaws to be seen in the various forms of democracy we plainly see wherever it is offered as an example for others to follow. In the USA for instance you will have taken note of the lobby groups for the various gigantic industries of America, the so-called Defence Industry, Big Pharma and many others. Then there is the question of influence through sponsorship of U.S. politicians by these interests. How much of U.S. government policy then is determined by the people of the USA themselves via the electoral system? And how easy is it for the average American who wants to change things in the USA to mount a campaign and get elected? If he or she gets past the selection process without promising his or her backers will any money for the campaign be forthcoming and will he/she get access to air time or be reported to any extent in the media. So, we see the limits of “democracy”.
Of course the road to the ideal situation as advocated so stridently by both Neocons and successive U.S. administrations is a rocky one to say the least, as we can see from the last two decades. No constantly reliable path to the stability required to have the level of peace necessary to make the positive changes to democracy, freedom and human rights has been found. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine have shown that the plans drawn up to realise these Neocon/western political elite goals obviously lacked major elements. Perhaps all the chaos, death and destruction match some even more long term plan than those on display until now, but if so neither the Neocons or the political elites of the West are relating them to the world.Instead the four word mantra of democracy, freedom and human rights tends to be all we hear. If there is a long term plan it seems they don’t dare publicise it.
The negatives all come first they have no doubt told themselves. Perhaps several generations of negatives. Millions are displaced, societies are fractured, millions die in decade after decade of war. And of course many wars instigate new ones where rival powers collide as a result of a general atmosphere of instability caused ultimately by the constant activities of the Neocons and U.S. political elites attempting to deliver on their belief in ‘manifest destiny, to transform the world. And do we get any closer to those presumed goals of worldwide democracy, freedom and the observance of human rights. Surely this must be doubtful to say the least?
So, accepting that the goals stated above appear unattainable shouldn’t we ask ourselves then if these are the true goals of the Neocons/U.S. political elites? What other goals that have a more realistic possibility of attainment? What about maintaining U.S. national interests and those of their allies? What about ensuring that the USA and its allies never again suffer a 9/11-type event by broadening control and ability to know what the entire world population is doing at any given moment? (Full Spectrum Dominance.) Are these not more attainable goals by far? By weakening and subverting the sovereignty and governmental systems of target nations do these elite powers not shake things up in a manner where US-aligned interests might better take power and thus preserve and increase western national interests in such nations?
You will decide which goals are most likely to be attained and which are more likely to be the meat and bread issues that would get Neocon/U.S. elite adrenaline going. Are they truly saintly figures who visualise a perfect planet several lifetimes away where everyone if happy, free and living on a perfectly democratic planet? Or is something much more self-interested at work here?
