RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 27.12.2023
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
Zaluzhny, Rus To Take Avdeyevka, Zelensky Row; Bankers Oppose Asset Seizure, EU to Borrow for Kiev.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Zaluzhny, Maryinka retreat. Newsweek, game-changing F-16. EU Plan B, €20B debt to fund Ukraine.
THE DURAN
Frontline distraction; Fighter jets, landing ships and F-16s.
DANIEL DAVIS / DEEP DIVE
Ukraine Mobilizing Half Million more Men: Will it Matter? w/ Matt Hoh.
DANNY HAIPHONG - MARK SLEBODA
Ukraine's Army is DECIMATED and Putin is Ready to Finish It.
PROFESSOR JEFFREY SACHS
Predictable Failure.
GARLAND NIXON
WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER - MARINKA FALLS UKRAINE NEAR EXHAUSTION GAZA DRAGS ON.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Putin's speech during the meeting of the leaders of the CIS member countries. Russia, St.Petersburg.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
The Growing US Military Recruitment Crisis: There is no Solution & the Crisis Will Only Grow...
Why "Digging In" Won't Save Ukraine & What the West Got Wrong about Russian Defences.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Shoigu briefs Putin on capture of strategic town of Maryinka near Donetsk in E. Ukraine.
FIRSTPOST
Russia-Ukraine War LIVE: Russia Captures Key Town Near Donetsk | Russia Foreign Ministry Briefing.
DEEP WEAPONS
Russia Doubled Production of the Advanced Su-57 Fighter With New Engine After Tested in Ukraine War.
FIRSTPOST
India's EAM Jaishankar Holds Talks with Russian Counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow.
JUDGE ANDRE NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
How Stable is the Putin Government?
HINDUSTAN TIMES - RUSSIA / THE COLLECTIVE WEST
Jaishankar Meets Russia’s Sergei Lavrov | Bilateral Ties, Gaza & Ukraine Wars On Agenda.
‘India-Russia Ties Only Constant In World Politics’: Jaishankar To Indian Community In Moscow.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Zaluzhny vs Zelensky, Middle Eastern Crisis, Sweden-NATO, Dedollarization Russian-Indian cooperation.
BORZZIKMAN
Russia Brutally Responded To The Attack On 'Feodosia'┃NATO Facilities Are On FIRE.
Russian Spetsnaz Derailed A Military Train With NATO Weapons In ODESSA Oblast.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHIL GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
The CIA and its Lies.
TFIGLOBAL
Biden was going ahead nicely with this Russian thing but it suddenly turned into a nightmare.
CGTN
Uncle Sam's 'playground.'
SCOTT RITTER - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
"America’s power has DECLINED massively due to Ukraine & Israel..”
RICHARD MEDHURST
War-Torn Yemen Does for Palestine What All Arab Countries Should.
VANESSA BEELEY
Father Elias Zahlawi in Damascus speaking with Marwa Osman.
HINDUSTAN TIMES - ISRAEL/GAZA
Jaishankar Meets Russia’s Sergei Lavrov | Bilateral Ties, Gaza & Ukraine Wars On Agenda.
Houthis Strike Israeli Port Of Eilat; Hezbollah Launches 8 Attacks In 6 Hours; IDF Loses 3 Soldiers.
Houthis Confirm Fresh Attacks: Not Just Ship, But Launches Towards Israel Port; US Task Force Fails?
Hamas Kills 3 More Israeli Soldiers - All In Early 20s; Shows Videos Of Hidden Attacks On IDF | Gaza.
Iran’s Raisi To Meet Turkish President Erdogan In January; May Make This Major Demand | Details:
Hamas Targets Biden Amid Israel’s Gaza Onslaught; ‘Only Succeeds In Killing Civilians’.
Two Big Blasts Reported Near Yemen's Coast In Red Sea; UK Authorities Say 'Missiles, UAV...'
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
Geopolitics of Israel war explained: Gaza, Iran, Saudi, Yemen, Red Sea ship attacks.
KATIE HALPER
Zionism's SHOCKING HISTORY, 2023 Year In Review, & Ritchie Torres EXPOSED.
DAWN NEWS ENGLISH
Army Says Non-Israeli Jewish Can Voluntarily Join Military Service.
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Many labour unions in the US are calling ‘for an end to the slaughter and for a ceasefire’.
Multiple Decomposed Corpses Discovered in Northern Gaza.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Palestinian authorities report at least 491 Israeli soldiers killed.
REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT
Israeli Snipers Kill Two Christian Women at a Church | The Pope Reacts to Catholic Church Murders.
Kim Iversen: Unhinged West Bank Settlers | Israeli Settlers Terrorize Palestinians in The West Bank.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Beijing slams US 2024 defence budget for antagonising China, vows strong countermeasures.
'China will not flinch' Beijing rebukes US' so-called report on Xinjiang, announces countermeasures.
FIRSTPOST
China MoFA LIVE: Xi Jinping Vows to Prevent Anyone 'Splitting Taiwan from China'.
DANNY HAIPHONG - BRIAN BERLETIC
China Has a SHOCKING Secret and the U.S. is Going to War Over It.
STEPHEN GARDNER
"They are SOCIOPATHS" Former Democrat EXPOSES Party's Evil Plans.
THE HILL
Biden Orders Airstrikes After American Soldiers Injured; Netanyahu Vows To Destroy Hamas; 2024 Polls.
LIU SIVAYA
HUIDO DE UCRANIA: la historia del ucraniano que huyó de Ucrania para refugiarse en Rusia | liusivaya.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Putin is Riding High.
Articles from RT (Russia Today) & Sputnik International - 27th December 2023:
Why Russian Liberation of Maryinka is So Significant.
The Ukrainian army continues to suffer humiliation after humiliation, losing an important stronghold in the Donetsk People’s Republic not long after Kiev’s over-hyped “counteroffensive” ended in complete failure.
Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu formally announced that the Russian Armed Forces liberated Maryinka, a heavily fortified city in the Donetsk People’s Republic, which for years served as an important stronghold for the Ukrainian troops, on December 25.
Maryinka’s close proximity to the region’s capital of Donetsk allowed Ukrainian forces to shell the bigger city with relative impunity, noted military analyst Anatoliy Matviychuk, a retired colonel of the Russian Armed Forces.
“Most importantly, they (Ukrainian forces) turned that city into a fortification,” Matviychuk said. “There were firing positions for long-range artillery and MLRS that shelled Donetsk. Now Maryinka is taken and thus the threat was moved away from Donetsk.”
He further noted that the liberation of Maryinka results in Russian forces taking control of “a hub of railways and highways,” not to mention cutting off the supply lines for the Ukrainian forces in the sector.
The Russian victory in Maryinka also means that Ukrainian forces suffered a huge blow to their morale and lost confidence in their ability to hold their positions, suggested Colonel General Georgy Shpak, ex-commander of the Russian Airborne Forces.
“Already, as I’ve learned, the number of Ukrainian soldiers who want to end up in Russian captivity has drastically increased,” Shpak said, adding that Kiev troops are becoming disaffected with their leaders and their ideals.
Meanwhile, Ret. Col. Rustem Klupov, a military analyst and Russian military intelligence veteran, argued that the liberation of Maryinka was the beginning of a breakthrough in multilayered enemy defense in the sector, which may be followed by further breakthroughs in the Artemovsk and Avdeyevka sectors.
“These three directions – Artemovsk, Maryinka and Avdeyevka – they may lead to a strategic advance towards Pavlograd and Dnepropetrovsk, that’s about 200 kilometers, in order to encircle the enemy attack force that sought to punch through our frontlines in the south,” Klupov said.
According to him, such a move by Russian forces would put the entire Ukrainian southern army group at risk as Kiev would be forced to either pull these troops back or risk them being cut off.
“The success of this big operation is being determined there, near Avdeyevka and Maryinka,” Klupov claimed.
While Kiev’s “counteroffensive” that started early in June and ended without much fanfare by the year’s end failed to produce any results apart from tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers killed, Russian forces scored a number of victories in 2023 which include the liberation of the cities of Artemovsk, Soledar and Maryinka.
Why Russian Liberation of Maryinka is So Significant.
US ‘cannibalizing Europe’ – Putin aide.
The West is rapidly degrading, while the economies of Russia and the Global South are growing, Maksim Oreshkin says.
The US insistence on sanctioning Russia has caused a downturn in the EU economy, according to President Vladimir Putin's top economic adviser, Maksim Oreshkin.
In an interview with Expert magazine published on Tuesday, Oreshkin said the sanctions imposed since February last year have caused the EU to lose both its energy security and a key export market.
Oreshkin pointed to the key factors underlying the EU's economic prosperity, outlined by the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. They include easy availability of energy resources from Russia, the use of cheap production in China, and access to the Russian and Chinese markets.
“The gradual loss of these factors is leading the EU economy towards long-term stagnation,” Oreshkin argued, “because European manufacturers now have neither the export market nor the advantages in technology that they had five to ten years ago.”
Oreshkin accused the US of “cannibalizing its European partners, killing European chemicals, automotive and other industries.” This comes amid a broader degradation of the West and its economic model, he said.
“The economies of the Global North – the US, Japan, the EU – are slowly losing their status, their significance. This gradual decay of the countries of the Global North and the growth of countries in the East and South is what will further shape the landscape of the global economy,” he predicted. Oreshkin noted that China has already become the leading global economic power, while Russia is now the largest economy in Europe, “on course to replace Japan as the world’s fourth largest.”
According to the presidential aide, the world’s key economic players will be focusing their development strategies on growing markets in Asia and Africa in the coming years. Russia’s development will take the same direction, he predicted, especially in the energy sphere.
“The stronger the economic growth [in Asia and Africa], the higher will their level of energy consumption be, and the better the energy markets will feel… For Russia, the key task is to remain the most efficient producers of what we make, which includes energy. We must have lower costs, more efficient production, and then the changes that will occur in the energy markets will affect us to a lesser extent.”
US ‘cannibalizing Europe’ – Putin aide.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL UPDATE
SnowStorm | The Patriot Crew Was Destroyed In Kherson | Bradley Square. Military Summary 2023.12.27
Ukraine Transfers Troops To Krynky Again. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.12.27
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA
ZALUZHNY (Ukraine Commander in Chief) breaking the Matrix; Rift with Zelenskyy going public.
WAR ROOM MAPPING UPDATE
Political Issues Heat Up In Ukraine as Mobilization is Announced, Rybar Map December 26th, 2023.
M MAPPING UPDATE
Russian Forces Successfully Advance On Robotyne Front l Robotyne Front Collapsed.
NEW WORLD GEOPOLITICS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION MAPPING UPDATE
AFU Retreats From Verbove | RUAF Enter Spirne.
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.
2024: AFTER RUSSIA WINS IN UKRAINE. WHAT THEN?
When Russia rolls over what is left of the Ukrainian defence belt built designed to imprison the people of the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine over the years since 2014, the reaction of the western press, media and politicians will be extremely interesting.
Having built an entire mythology around their anointed hero of Kiev, Volodmyr Zelensky and exclaimed how the mighty Ukrainian army were defeating the Russians at every turn, the story they tell is going to have to be good.
At first there will be a kind of stunned radio silence hoping nobody notices that the Russians have won. This will be similar in many ways to the approach to various other failures and criminal acts of the western powers in the past. Such as those in Afghanistan, Libya, the Abu Ghraib scandal and much else besides.
After a period of mourning within editing suites and political briefing rooms the most likely thing to emerge is that good old solve-all, the alternative truth. This fictional reality is likely to go something like this:
“Russia completely failed in its unprovoked campaign to occupy Ukraine. President Zelensky and his indomitable troops faced down the Russians with incredible bravery and fortitude, denying the Russians their victory. Held back from overrunning Ukraine the Russians were fought to a standstill, unable to come anywhere near their goal of occupying Ukraine in its entirety!”
This narrative and variants of it will provide the necessary public relations fig-leaf and nicely sanitised soft landing for western audiences weaned on the litany of fabrications they had imbibed from the same sources since February 24th, 2022. Most will grasp this sop to their potentially injured sensitivities and hold it to their breasts like a security blanket.
After this deluge of obfuscation and hard fact avoidance all those still looking in will be invited to turn their attention to the evil doings of the next neocon target down the line, almost inevitably China or Iran. News items concerning Ukraine will become extremely sparse if there are indeed any to be found at all in this wake for the West’s total failure there.
Historians and academics will attempt to provide their analyses to the general public as they have done since this whole West-instigated mess began. But there will be few takers. Those who knew precisely what was going on all along will not need their memories refreshed. And those who didn’t, those headline surfers and mainstream news addicts will have absolutely no wish to have their noses thrust into the alternate history MSM ordure they imbibed for so long.
The state-approved western-oriented history of the Ukraine conflict will be used as the foundation of any required responses to journalistic enquiries in similar manner to the responses of Bush and Blair after the complete absence of WMDs in Iraq and the inconvenient presence of hundreds of thousands of corpses, many of them children. Apart from these it will all be hushed up, brushed under the carpet and given the heavily blinkered treatment by all and sundry to the last days of their bloody-fingered, sorry lives.