RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.06.2023
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.
*** WILL ZELENSKY ACT TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF HIS TROOPS? ***
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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
Putin, Ukr Stuck; Rus Advance Kupyansk, Liman; Biden Undermines Blinken China Visit, Xi Dictator.
ALEX CHRISTOFOTOU of THE DURAN
Biden, I shot down balloon & Xi is a dictator. Elensky, this is not Hollywood. F-16s in Romania. U/1
THE DURAN
Biden blows up China rapprochement, calls Xi Jinping a dictator.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Update on Ukraine, EU and RF billions, Syria-Turkey, Georgian wine is taking over the Russian market.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Putin congratulated graduates of military universities on their graduation! Russia.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - SCOTT RITTER
INTERVIEW: War wounds.
REDACTED
NATO's secret TERROR armies exposed in newly declassified documents by The Grayzone.
RICHARD MEDHURST - SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter Interview: Ukraine Counteroffensive Analysis and More: Richard Medhurst LIVE.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
Ukraine Slow Offensive/ U.S. Retired Generals Delusional - w/SCOTT RITTER.
DANNY HAIPHONG - CHRIS HEDGES
Chris Hedges: Ukraine is a Proxy for the US' DANGEROUS War on Free Speech.
FOREIGN POLICY REVIEW
SCOTT RITTER ON THE UKRAINE OFFENSIVE.
RICHARD MEDHURST
US-China Shift? Why Blinken's Visit to China Is So Significant.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
The soul rejoices at how much the Ukrainian tanks are burning.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Ukraine Wants to STRIKE CRIMEA With the Help of the US & UK?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - TONY SHAFFER
What Ukraine Seems to be Doing Wrong/ Zelenskyy admits Offensive is Slow.
REDACTED
Oh SH*T this is about to get MUCH worse | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
"Putin will use NUKES!" says Biden who pushes more money to Ukraine.
DEEP WEAPONS
Su-34 Front-Line Bombers Received New Protection System From Enemy Electronic Warfare.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia's 'Nuclear Winter' Threat to U.S; 'Deadly' Deterrent As Arms Control Pact Erodes.
Russian Su-35’s Modern Radars, Missiles Crush Zekensky’s Soviet-Era Jets; Kyiv Pilot’s Big Admission.
Putin's Masterstroke To Evade Sanctions; Russia Uses China To Source Banned Tech From U.S. | Details:
Putin’s Envoy Tears Into Biden Over Ukraine War, Says U.S. ‘Prolonging Bloodshed’ | Details:
Ukraine's 'Counteroffensive Halted'; Putin Mocks Zelensky, Says 'Kyiv Cannot Beat Russia'.
'Biggest Destruction...': Ukraine Blackmailing West For Money? Zelensky Throws Fresh New Demand.
CHRIS THRALL
BLACKROCK Are Doing WHAT In UKRAINE?!!!
TRIBUN TIMUR OFFICIAL
🔴 Russia flamethrower TOS-1A intercepted Ukraine counter-offensive in Zaporozhye and South Donetsk.
🔴 7 Himars MLRS projectiles and 13 drones shoot down by Russia air defence.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Ukrainian T-72B3 tank crashes into American MRAP MaxxPro.
Hundreds victims of Ukraine in Zaporozhye, ambulances and other vehicles even blown up by Russia.
EMIL COSMAN
This time China had enough of US. Biden calling Xi a "dictator," pushed China 100% in Russia's arms.
Zelensky's war against Ukrainian Klitschko. Ukraine gov tries to "frame" Klitschko, get rid of him.
THE HILL
Ukraine Got $6.2B EXTRA In US Military Aid Due To ANOTHER Pentagon ‘ACCOUNTING ERROR’?!
SEAN FOO
It’s Official - France Wants A BRICS Invite! | The Global Shift Is Here.
STANSBERRY RESEARCH
U.S. Dollar Value Slowly Being Chipped Away by Side Deals.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Carl Zha Breaks Down China's Foreign Policy toward the US, Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan & Middle East.
THE CONVO COUCH
Fi's Back! Anti-China Rhetoric, Lawfare & Alex Saab, Cornel West, RFK MOST Zionist Candidate.
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia ADVANCES In Kharkov, Ukraine RENEWS Counteroffensive Push.
THIS Changes Everything...
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
Live w/Andrei Martyanov (@smoothieX12): How many Russian soldiers died in Ukraine? Is NATO finished?
BORZZIKMAN
What the HELL is Going On!?! Why is NATO Military Equipment Being Attacked in European Countries?
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Blinken’s Visit and Biden’s True Colors: Imperialist Arrogance Toward China.
LINE FLUX
Russia Starts New Trades with UAE on the Condition that US Should Be Sidelined.
SHAMAN
ВСТАНЕМ (Концерт в Кремле).
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
A group of Ukrainian soldiers in Kremennaya captured in Russian surprise offensive on Luhansk front.
LIU SIVIYA
DÍA DE LA MEMORIA EN RUSIA.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 22nd June 2023:
Ukrainians know they have ‘no chance’ against Russia – Putin.
The Russian president offered an explanation as to why Kiev’s offensive was halted.
Ukraine has stopped major offensive operations after realising its forces could not win, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
“Thanks to the courage and heroism of our soldiers and the readiness of commanders to repulse any aggressive actions against Russia, it seems to me that the enemy has no chance. They understand this, which is why they stopped,” Putin told journalist Pavel Zarubin at the Kremlin.
The Ukrainian military launched its long-heralded offensive on June 4, using several brigades trained in the West and equipped with Leopard tanks and Bradley armoured vehicles, among others.
“Oddly enough, it is a slow burn at the moment, because the enemy is sustaining serious personnel and equipment losses,” Putin said. “As of early this morning, our men had taken out 245 tanks and about 678 armoured vehicles of various types, to say nothing of the enemy’s casualties, which are substantial.”
Kiev’s forces are currently in the process of rebuilding their brigades, which took serious losses, Putin explained, but fear that taking more casualties at this rate will eliminate the combat capability of not just their strategic reserve, but their entire military.
At this moment, Putin said, “offensive operations are not ongoing,” only elements of combat such as shelling and reconnaissance in force.
Retired general Andrey Kartapolov, who commanded the Russian expedition in Syria in 2016-17, has also estimated that Ukraine will exhaust its offensive capability by the end of June at this rate, with 40% of its force in the theater already rendered combat ineffective.
Putin’s comments came at the reception for the top cadets of Russian military academies and officer schools, also attended by Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu. The Russian president told the newly minted officers that Moscow was committed to providing the armed forces with all the weapons and supplies they needed.
Shoigu impressed upon the new officers the gravity of the moment, saying that Russia’s geopolitical future was at stake, with the West arming Ukraine and waging an all-out war against Russia through sanctions and subversion of neighbouring countries.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Russian Spring | Ukraine Is Cracking Under The Blows Of Russian Forces. Military Summary 2023.06.22
The Russians Launched An Unexpected Counteroffensive. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.06.22
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
UKRAINIAN BAKHMUT PINCER continues; major Ukrainian Bakhmut offensive brewing - Bakhmut Front.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine front update [22 June 2023].
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
Ukraine War Frontline Report, Rybar Map and Combat Footage For June 21, 2023 Surovikin Killing Line.
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
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Dual Offensives | Russian Advances | Both Sides Intensify Assaults.
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.
UKRAINE: IF THE COLLECTIVE WEST WINS, WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
We are living through World War Three, thankfully, as yet, without the use of nuclear weapons.
World War Three, the final world war, was always going to be about the overall geopolitical environment to prevail for whatever future humanity has on this planet.
Especially so due to the events that took place in the USA on the eleventh of September 2001 this war was brought into being, though it could be argued that the foundations had been laid long before predicated upon the ethos of exceptionalism in North America and concepts of national supremacy in the United Kingdom.
These two nations are by far the main instigators of this war to supposedly end all wars. Their absolute determination to impose liberal hegemony on all nations they consider to be under their patrician umbrella of sanctified judicial command was always going to bring about this result. However, 9/11 put rocket boosters under their determination and brought forward to the maximum any previous plans to achieve the universal hegemony they believe is theirs by right.
The opposition of Vladimir Putin to the demand that the USA, UK and their allies be allowed global supervision rights along with unquestioned authority, ability to punish offenders at will with interventions up to an including military attacks and invasion was totally unacceptable.
Similarly, the economic rise of China presented another huge challenge to unquestioned western control and supervision rights, demanded an unending campaign be mounted to counter this threat to western hegemony.
These are the building blocks to the situation today in Ukraine where Russia is exerting its right to ensure its security within its sphere of influence. The necessity to do everything possible to subvert and collapse the Russian will is virtually without limit except for any acts that would instigate a nuclear exchange. All other means are being used against Russia just as they will be in future against China where an excuse will certainly be created, most likely in relation to Taiwan if other provocations designed to initiate such a situation fail.
What will be the outcome of such conflicts if they eventuate in a successful campaign by the USA, UK and allies against Russia and China? What would the inevitable next steps be if the leadership of both nations is decapitated and replaced along with their present systems of governance?
Certainly there would be an insistence that Iran, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and other ‘problem child’ nations be made to submit.
If these too fall to the collective west, what then?
In my considered opinion those surviving could wave goodbye to anything approaching freedom of choice in regard to political choice and preference for systems of governance outside a limited spectrum. The unchallenged supremacy of the USA and its allies would prevail in each and every circumstance where politics and systems of governance were concerned.
In addition the present surveillance systems of the NSA and others would be further honed and developed to monitor all behaviour and with especial focus on all potential “subversive” activity that challenged the new status quo.
What other world could possibly await us than a de facto prison planet where populations are constantly observed for tell-tale signs of discontent, the formation of disaffected groups and gatherings of suspicious kinds that may threaten good order?
Be careful what you wish for if you are wishing with all your heart for Russia’s campaign to fail.
You may just be wishing for your own imprisonment.