RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 01.04.2024
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.
*** EACH DAY SEES MORE NAILS HAMMERED IN KIEV REGIME COFFIN ***
“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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Moscow demands that Kiev surrender terrorism suspects.
Russia has insisted that Ukraine hand over those it believes were involved in terrorist attacks, including its spy chief.
Moscow has demanded that Ukraine surrender everyone in the country it suspects of terrorism, including Kiev’s domestic spy agency boss Vasily Malyuk, and to immediately stop supporting any related activities such individuals and groups undertake, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday.
The ministry said it had officially contacted Kiev with the demands under the UN-adopted International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. The demands include the “immediate arrest and extradition” of all the suspects which Moscow has identified and linked to the recent terrorist attacks against Russia.
The deadly attack on the Crocus City Hall, which “shocked the whole world is, by far, not the first terrorist attack endured by our country recently,” the ministry noted.
”The investigations carried out by the competent Russian bodies indicate that the traces of all these crimes lead to Ukraine,” it stressed.
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Apart from the concert hall attack, which left at least 144 people dead and more than 500 injured, the ministry cited such incidents as the assassination of the military blogger Maksim Fomin (best known by his pen name Vladlen Tatarsky), the deadly bombing of the Crimean Bridge, as well as recent cross-border raids into Belgorod Region and elsewhere which have been attributed by Kiev to the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK). The paramilitary unit, advertised as composed of Russians collaborating with Ukraine, has been designated as a terrorist entity by Moscow.
The ministry did not reveal any of the names of those it has demanded due to their suspected involvement, aside from the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasily Malyuk. The spy boss “cynically admitted on March 25 that Ukraine organized the bombing of the Crimean Bridge in October 2022 and revealed details on the organization of other terrorist attacks in Russia,” it noted.
Failing to meet Russia’s demands will constitute a breach of Ukraine’s international obligations with respect to fighting terrorism and “entail its international legal responsibility,” the ministry warned.
“Fighting against international terrorism is the responsibility of every state. The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately stop any support for terrorist activities, hand over the perpetrators and compensate for the damage done to the victims,” it stressed.
Moscow demands that Kiev surrender terrorism suspects.
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The Ukrainian president has dismissed a long-time aide, Sergey Shefir, as well as several senior advisers.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky fired his long-time associate and aide Sergey Sherif on Saturday. He has sacked multiple senior advisers in the past week amid an ongoing reshuffle of his administration.
Sherif was one of the few remaining officials to have served alongside Zelensky since day one of his presidency, assuming his post in May 2019. Before getting into politics, he was a long-time close business associate of Zelensky, with whom he had co-founded the Kvartal 95 (District 95) comedy studio.
In September 2021, Sherif survived an assassination attempt when his car was attacked by unknown assailants. The vehicle was riddled with bullets, leaving his driver wounded, while Sherif himself escaped unharmed. At the time, the Ukrainian leadership claimed the hit was retaliation by the country’s “system,” which Zelensky had been purportedly trying to “break.”
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Over the past few days, Zelensky had sacked three freelance presidential advisors as well as two plenipotentiary representatives, Natalya Pushkareva and Alyona Verbitskaya, tasked with issues related to the volunteer movement and the rights of military servicemen, respectively.
The firings come as a part of a reshuffling of the Ukrainian leadership launched by Zelensky early this year. Former top general Valery Zaluzhny was the most prominent victim of the effort, being replaced last month by Aleksandr Syrsky. Zaluzhny was rumored to have been at odds with Zelensky for months before raising concerns about the frontline situation publicly late last year.
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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.
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WHAT CHANCE DID UKRAINE EVER HAVE AGAINST RUSSIA?
Once the economic and financial sanctions against Russia failed the only possible outcome in Ukraine was for Russia to win and win big. Despite this clear path to the accomplishment of all Russia’s goals, the protection of the Russian-speaking majority in Ukraine’s Donbass region, the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine Russia was willing, a month into its military campaign, to settle for one fourth of its military goals, that Ukraine would never join NATO. This has been confirmed by a lead Ukrainian negotiator at the negotiations held in March 2002 in Istanbul.
The Ukrainian authorities ought to have jumped at the chance to settle things there and then. Further discussions were agreed to take place to iron out any remaining issues, also including meetings between Putin and Zelensky on the most thorny issues regarding Crimea and the two breakaway Russian republics. It was all there for the taking. Russia even withdrew its forces from around Kiev as a goodwill gesture when optimism of a settlement was in sight through the Istanbul negotiations. It wasn’t to be however. Statements from multiple sources, people of substance in a position to know, said that the western powers convinced the Ukrainian regime to fight on instead.
This was the crucial moment when a Ukrainian regime appeared ready to come to a rational decision to save lives and territory from the Russians, lives and territory that were sure to be lost if the Russian economy survived the onslaught of western sanctions. But instead of pushing forward toward a peaceful solution Zelensky and his people decided to bet on western financing and advanced weaponry supply from the West. The promises must have been many and offered with certain convincing guarantees regarding an ultimate Russian defeat. Who knows what subtle or unsubtle arm-twisting went on behind these scenes in the determination of the western powers to achieve their own goals through the use of Ukraine against Russia?
As we see now this entire plan by the western powers to land an immense blow upon Russia, one that they thought would bring down Putin and the entire panoply of Russia’s form of governance, has failed to an extent never conceived possible by those powers. It is surely the case that western leaders were all convinced by their own rhetoric on Russia, that Russia was nothing but a ‘gas station masquerading as a country’, that it was weak, with a disorganised and incapable military and had a financial system that could be subverted and brought to its knees along with entire foundation of Russia’s economy. It is undoubtedly the case that leaders across the West had convinced themselves of these things and that anyone contradicting them was ignored and shunned as delusional.
So it was that the leaders of western nations agreed on a course of action, just as they had done in respect of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Few if any lessons from those military adventures appear to have been learned. All appears to have been “Gung ho!” and “Yessir, can do!” with any naysayers laughed out of the room. Once again hubris raised its sorry head allowing group thought to replace logic, rationality and in-depth analysis. Reality was far less important than ambition. If only we could do this or that and with the might of our supposed power we CAN do all these things. We can smash the Russians using Ukraine and we must convince this tool Zelensky of this fact.
This is pretty much how it must have gone. Each committee consulting well-heeled advisers, many of them lobbyists for or paid consultants of so-called “defence” corporations, would have been left in no doubt. This was all doable and there was nothing to stop them. Combining the frontal assault on Russia’s banking system and sources of gross domestic product, commanding all western companies to leave Russia and bringing all nations worldwide into the fold against Russia would do the trick. It couldn’t fail. All the graphs, presentations, war game analyses and adviser input said so. This would be a ‘slam dunk’. All systems were go. This is ‘in the bag’.
What are all these people doing now? Are they still advising those who hold the levers of power in the West? They surely are because since 9/11 and even before, the dearth of those interested in true diplomacy, bridge building through dialogue and negotiations to create win-win solutions, was extreme. Even the Trump presidency, ostensibly one that sought good relations with Russia, brought in arch-hawks and neocons such as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in extremely high positions totally negating any policy of renewed détente with Russia. Then Biden arrived in the Oval Office, always a political thug but now seemingly a doddering version of your favourite uncle. Biden, given the Ukraine portfolio under Obama had a very sharp knife to grind in relation to Russia.
Biden and virtually the entire Democratic party had swallowed whole the entire Russiagate narrative promoted by Hillary Clinton to explain her losing to the outsider Trump. “Russia did it” was the cry and was Biden going to speak or act against this trope so consistently, indeed endlessly repeated? Naturally he was not. Therefore the concept that Putin and Russia was responsible for every negative circumstance under the sun continued under Biden and every additional foundation to this false premise was pursued. As 2021 wore on and the rhetoric against Russia issuing from both the political and media spheres across the West only intensified there was only one way things were headed in regard to Ukraine.
Trying to avoid this destination, with appeals to the western powers to engage in talks leading to ‘a new security architecture for Europe’ that would include Russia and simultaneously an appeal to NATO to recognise Russia’s interests, Russia sought a way out. Even when all roads were blocked to Russia and the Russian military was used in an attempt to bring the Ukrainian regime to the negotiating table Russia still sought any way possible to avoid the inevitable bloodshed on both sides of continued military conflict. Even when the Ukrainian regime took the chance offered by the West to beat Russia militarily, Russia attempted in a very gradual form of military combat in an incremental pursuit of its goals, to avoid the deaths that a full scale military commitment would bring.
Through two years of Russia making incremental gains using tactics of defensive attrition no full scale strategy of all-out war was initiated. It appears that the Russian leadership and high command always had on their minds that the regime in Kiev would recognise the futility of fighting on and come back to the negotiating table. All such hopes began to be abandoned only in the last six months or so. Until then it appears that the Russians could not bring themselves to believe that the Ukrainians would be so incredibly foolhardy to believe that western promises of financing and weapon/ammunition supply could bring them anything remotely like the victory they repeatedly claimed would be theirs. Now, in these days of February and March 2024 we can see Russian patience finally and totally running out.
Early in the conflict Putin said, to the astonishment of many in the West, that Russia hadn’t really started yet. Now we see exactly what he meant. Russia has finally ‘taken the gloves off’ and is hitting targets all across Ukraine as never before. Fuel depots, energy infrastructure, decision-making centres, Ukrainian intelligence and security hubs, and much else besides are being hit hard on a continuing, nightly basis. The Russian military is moving forward taking positions from the Ukrainian army causing it large losses. Losses are estimated to be around three times greater than a year ago when even then they were very high. Russia is bringing all its military resources to bear now. We can see now, as we were never quite able to see before, though it has always in truth been evident, that ever since Russia survived the sanctions war, Ukraine never really stood any chance.