RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 27.04.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 27.04.2024
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.
*** WESTERN ECONOMIES CRUMBLE AS RUSSIA KEEPS RISING ***
“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
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EU state says it won’t give missile systems to Ukraine.
The country can’t part with air defense systems that are crucial for its deterrence capabilities, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said.
Athens will not supply Kiev with US-made Patriot or Soviet-designed S-300 air defense systems, the prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has said.
Local media reported earlier this week that the country might provide Kiev with at least one Patriot system, following pressure from the EU and NATO on member states to increase support for Ukraine as it experiences a shortage of air defense systems and munitions.
Read more: US begins spending $61bn Ukraine war chest – Politico
However, in an interview with Iefimerida on Wednesday, Mitsotakis made it clear that the delivery is not going to happen. “Greece will not send either S-300[s] nor Patriot[s] to Ukraine,” he said.
“We have said from the start that we cannot provide weapons systems that are critical to our deterrence capability,” the prime minister explained.
Athens has supported Kiev “in various ways,” including by providing weapons, during the conflict with Russia and will continue to do so if it finds “surplus material,” he promised.
But the air defenses in question “are critical systems for the protection of Greek airspace and cannot be ceded to Ukraine,” he reiterated.
Together with Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Spain, Greece is among six European nations that operate the Patriot systems.
While Berlin has promised to supply another Patriot to Ukraine, Poland said earlier this week that it has no air defense systems to spare. Spanish daily El Pais reported on Friday that Madrid will only provide air defense missiles to Kiev, but not the Patriot systems.
In late March, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that at least five Patriots operated by Kiev’s forces have been destroyed by the Russian military since the start of the year.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that the decline in deliveries of Western aid in recent months has left Ukrainian troops “outgunned, allowing Russia to push forward on the front line.”
“Ukraine has lacked air defense, enabling more Russian missiles and drones to hit their targets,” he said. However, the NATO chief claimed that “it is not too late for Ukraine to prevail because more support is on the way.”
READ MORE: Poland doesn’t have Patriots to give Ukraine – Tusk
Russia has warned that deliveries of foreign weapons systems to Kiev will not prevent Moscow from achieving its military goals, but will merely prolong the fighting and could increase the risk of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO. According to officials in Moscow, the provision of arms, the sharing of intelligence, and the training of Ukrainian troops means that Western nations have already become de-facto parties to the conflict.
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Russian forces strike train carrying Western weapons – MOD.
The attack took place in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, according to the Defense Ministry.
Russian forces have struck a freight train carrying military equipment supplied to Ukrainian forces by Kiev's Western backers, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
The combined attack involved aircraft, missiles and artillery, the ministry said in a statement on Friday.
“A train with Western weapons and military equipment was hit in the area of the settlement of Udachnoye in [Russia’s] Donetsk People’s Republic,” it added..
Udachnoye, translated as ‘lucky’ in English, is located in the western part of the republic.
Personnel and equipment from the 67th Ukrainian mechanized brigade were also struck at a railway loading station in the area of Balakleya in Ukraine’s Kharkov Region, the ministry said.
Read more: US created Ukraine conflict – Shoigu
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces have also destroyed five US-made M777 howitzers, two American M102 105mm lightweight towed howitzers, a US-designed AN/TPQ-50 counter-fire radar, a British FH-70 howitzer, and other hardware, according to the statement.
The flow of Western aid to Ukraine decreased drastically in recent months as Republicans in the US Congress resisted attempts by President Joe Biden to push through another $61 billion in military assistance for Kiev. The standoff, which had dragged on since the autumn, was resolved earlier this week when lawmakers passed the legislation and Biden signed off on it.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that the delays in aid from the US and the EU had led to “consequences” on the battlefield. Ukrainian forces have been “outgunned, allowing Russia to push forward on the front line,” he said. Stoltenberg argued, however, that “it is not too late for Ukraine to prevail because more support is on the way.”
READ MORE: NATO failed to keep its promises to Ukraine – Stoltenberg
Russia has repeatedly warned that foreign weapons deliveries to Kiev will not prevent Moscow from achieving its military goals, but will merely prolong the fighting and could increase the risk of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO. According to officials in Moscow, the provision of arms, intelligence-sharing, and training of Ukrainian troops means that Western nations have already become de facto parties to the conflict.
Russian forces strike train carrying Western weapons – MOD.
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USA
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MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
NATO responsible for Ukraine crisis – China.
Beijing has flatly rejected the US-led military bloc’s claim that it is “fueling” the conflict.
NATO is directly responsible for the Ukraine conflict, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a press briefing on Friday, reacting to criticism raised by the US-led military bloc.
On Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg accused Beijing of supposedly supporting Russian weapons manufacturing through the export of dual-use components to the country.
“China says it wants good relations with the West. At the same time, Beijing continues to fuel the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War Two. They cannot have it both ways,” the official warned.
Wang rejected the claim, saying it is based on rumors. China did not start the Ukraine crisis, he insisted, and NATO’s responsibility for it is “unshiftable.” The US-led military bloc “should reflect on its role, stop shifting the blame, and do something practical to promote a political settlement,” he added.
Read more: US ‘shooting itself in the foot’ by arming Taiwan – Beijing
According to Beijing, NATO’s expansion in Europe and refusal to take Russian national security concerns into consideration triggered the hostilities. A roadmap to peace that China proposed in early 2023 called for that core problem to be addressed, he noted.
Kiev rejected a potential peace treaty with Moscow which the parties had negotiated in the early weeks of the conflict, and opted to continue armed hostilities. The US and its allies have vowed to stand with Ukraine “for as long as it takes” to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia. Moscow has claimed that Ukrainian military casualties since February 2022 are approaching 500,000.
In his rebuke of Beijing, Stoltenberg claimed that in 2023, “Russia imported 90% of its microelectronics from China, used to produce missiles, tanks and aircraft.” Wang said Chinese trade was above board, and claimed that “more than 60% of weapons parts and dual-use items imported by Russia come from the US and the West.”
READ MORE: Beijing warns Washington against crossing ‘red lines’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is currently visiting China. He reportedly intends to use the threat of financial restrictions, which Washington is poised to impose on Chinese banks involved in trade with Russia, as leverage. During his meeting with Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday, the latter warned that US attempts to infringe on “China’s legitimate development rights” were undermining bilateral relations.
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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.
OLD, AMATEUR, SICK & UNTRAINED - THE UKRAINIAN ARMY NOW
As the conflict in Ukraine grinds on myths that were spread in the West regarding a noble struggle by a heroic Ukraine against an evil Russia are being exploded by the day. A tragedy is being exposed.
The Ukrainian army was sent to eastern Ukraine to assert the authority of the illegal Ukrainian government that took over after the Maidan coup in 2014. It was an army that had suffered underinvestment of all kinds in the years preceding this time. Subsequently its cack-handed approach to the civilian population in eastern Ukraine was unsurprising. Violence soon broke out as resistance to this armed force was inevitable. Diplomacy ought to have been the way forward but after the ultraviolence seen in the insurrection that brought the new regime into being (backed by the USA, UK and EU) diplomacy had been all but abandoned in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army sent to discipline the rebellious majority in eastern Ukraine, after stirring up the resentment and opposition that led inevitably to violence were however, not strongly motivated enough for the regime and so the most extreme of the ultranationalists who had played a decisive part in the Maidan coup were used for this purpose. Given mortars and shells they set up outside Donbass villages, towns and cities and fired at random into them. They were unconcerned where these shells fell or who they killed or maimed as a consequence. The most radical of those who arrived hated ALL those who spoke Russian rather than Ukrainian they called ‘Moskals’. Those they considered to be Russian no matter that they lived in Ukraine. They spoke Russian and that was enough for these extremists. Whether the elderly, women, children, it didn’t matter to them. they were all Moskals, Russians. The structures most commonly hit were the Soviet era residential blocks but also hit were hospitals, school buildings and government offices.
The radicals off the Maidan were eventually incorporated officially into the Ukrainian national guard and it remains the case that these are the ideologically-motivated forces that continue to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict today. Their numbers however are much reduced by this point due to the Russian military tactic of attrition. The numbers too of the NATO-trained troops have been very much reduced also. And the Ukrainian army that first arrived in the Donbass to discipline the civilian population there is all but gone, wiped out by the overwhelming advantage the Russian army has had over the last two years.
Now the Ukrainian regime is scrambling to take whoever it can get into its now much reduced army. For some time now it has been incorporating increasingly older men and at times women into its forces. It began many months ago to violently take men off the street, bundling them into cars, giving them a week or two of training (if that) before sending them off to be cannon-fodder on the front lines. The average age of a Ukrainian trooper now stands at 43 years of age. Even a disabled, Downs Syndrome man has been seen in uniform at the front. Those being sent there include the increasingly young and always the partially trained. They then find themselves in a meat-grinder where they never even see a Russia but are only pummelled day and night by Russian artillery fire.
Yet even while the above goes on relentlessly day by day with a toll of some 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers being lost to the battlefield and Russia taking ever more territory the western political elites refuse to contemplate peace negotiations. Their goal was always to weaken Russia and initiate regime change there and this goal remains in place. The hapless and largely incapable Ukrainian troops, the majority of whom by now never wished to be there, are mere tools for the West and expendable tools at that. The cynicism involved is off the scale. Only the ideologically motivated neo-Nazi forces such as the AZOV and Right Sector monsters fight on enthusiastically. There can be no question and increasingly so, that all other Ukrainians who have been sent into the eastern meatgrinder simply wish to go home to their families.
There is no shining white innocent Ukraine fighting the evil black-hearted Russians. That myth is long exploded as more and more look deeper into the West-generated origins of this tragic war that Russia never wanted and tried (for almost a decade) to prevent. The Ukrainians who have been led to the slaughter by the West, apart from the most extreme nationalists are hapless and helpless victims of the Kiev regime led by Zelensky and his western masters. They are ultimately the most intolerably and cynically abused victims in this entire tragic scenario, along with the entire nation of Ukraine. mere pawns in the western ambition to undermine Russia. They deserve our sympathy as they die in ever-increasing numbers. The old, amateur, sick and untrained.
