RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 15.12.2024
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.
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COLLECTIVE WEST | RUSSIA
Russian Aviation Destroys Three Ukrainian Drone Deposits
The strikes were carried out by operational-tactical aviation, UAVs, missile troops, and artillery units.
Russia's military has destroyed three Ukrainian drone storage facilities, the Ministry of Defense reported.
"Three UAV storage facilities have been hit," Moscow clarified.
Additionally, Russian forces successfully targeted enemy personnel and military equipment in 153 areas.
Air defense systems downed six rockets from the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system and 60 aerial-type drones.
Russian Forces Destroy Key Ukrainian Military and Energy Infrastructure
Other Developments
Tsentr Battlegroup
Russian forces repelled four counterattacks from Ukrainian forces.
Ukrainian losses included up to 365 soldiers and one armored fighting vehicle.
Tactical improvements were made, with the destruction of personnel and equipment from two mechanized, a mountain, motorized infantry, and assault brigades, a marine brigade, and two national guard brigades.
Ukrainian losses also included three vehicles, one 152mm D-20 artillery piece, three 152mm Msta-B howitzers, and three 122mm D-30 howitzers.
Zapad Battlegroup
Russian forces improved their tactical position in the Kharkov region and Lugansk People's Republic (LPR).
Ukrainian forces lost up to 540 soldiers.
Two counterattacks were repelled.
Ukrainian losses included two armored personnel carriers, four pickups, one 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery unit, and several pieces of artillery from various countries including the UK and the US.
Two Ukrainian electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Yug Battlegroup
Russian forces secured more favorable positions and repelled two Ukrainian attacks.
Up to 225 Ukrainian soldiers were lost.
Losses for Ukraine also included two armored fighting vehicles and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
Ukrainian formations from two mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade, a marine brigade, and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in several locations in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
Vostok Battlegroup
Ukrainian forces lost up to 150 soldiers in the area of the Vostok battlegroup’s operations.
Losses included two armored fighting vehicles, three vehicles, one 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery unit, and one 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery unit.
Russian forces continued advancing into Ukrainian defense lines, with significant losses to two mechanized brigades and one territorial defense brigade.
Sever Battlegroup
Ukrainian forces lost up to 60 soldiers in the Kharkov region.
Russian forces inflicted losses on two territorial defense brigades and one Ukrainian border guard unit.
Losses included two armored personnel carriers, three vehicles, and two 122mm D-30 howitzers.
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What is the New Russian Kalinka System That Threatens to Put Starlink in Ukraine Out of Commission?
Kalinka is a new Russian monitoring system developed by the Center for Unmanned Systems and Technologies (CBST), designed to detect and locate signals emitted by satellite communication stations such as Elon Musk’s famous Starlink.
The new system can help quickly detect and target Starlink terminals because the basic principles of radio signal transmission have not changed since the invention of radio, says Andrey Bezrukov, chairman of the CBST board.
According to Bezrukov, not even the use of Starshield, a militarized version of Starlink, by Ukrainian troops would hide their communication terminals from Kalinka’s gaze.
Kalinka’s detection range is primarily determined by the terrain in the search area and by the use of other electronic systems by the enemy.
Regarding the time it would take to press Kalinka into mass production, Bezrukov says that it all depends on the demand from Russian forces operating in the conflict zone.
Russian National Guard Destroys Ukraine's Starlink Station in Chernigov Region Strike
A large number of Starlink communication terminals has been provided to Ukraine’s military by the United States following the escalation of the conflict in February 2022.
Aside from coordinating their military operations, Ukrainian forces have been actively using Starlink to connect with aerial and naval drones that Kiev has been using for terrorist attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia.
COLLECTIVE WEST | GLOBAL MAJORITY
Syria will be chaotic for the foreseeable future – John Mearsheimer.
It’s unlikely that a “coherent government” will be formed in Damascus, the political expert said.
Syria is set to go through a prolonged period of chaos now that Bashar Assad’s government has fallen, John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, has predicted.
Last week, opposition forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists, launched a surprise offensive across Syria and took control of its major cities, including the capital Damascus. The erstwhile president has since resigned and sought asylum with his family in Russia.
In the latest episode of Going Underground, published on Saturday, Mearsheimer suggested that it’s hard to imagine that a “coherent government” will soon be formed in Damascus that would be capable of controlling the entire country.
“How this all plays out moving forward is almost impossible to say, other than it looks like there will be considerable chaos in Syria for the foreseeable future,” the professor said, noting that the sudden regime change is only a “short-term success” for those who had backed the opposition forces, primarily the US.
“We [the US] basically threw our lot in with a number of Al Qaeda and ISIS operatives and they won,” Mearsheimer said, adding that the White House and American media were now doing everything they can to “clean up” HTS leader Mohammed al-Jolani, who is still an internationally wanted terrorist and has a US-issued $10 million bounty on his head.
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“These journalists understand full well, most Americans understand … that the US is supporting terrorists” despite the media trying to portray the HTS victory as a positive development, the professor said.
As for how the HTS had managed to overthrow the Syrian government, which had for years been assisted by Russia and Iran, Mearsheimer suggested that the country’s military had long-standing critical issues that Assad had failed to address and was “hollowed out” and simply “couldn’t stand up to the rebels.”
The professor claimed that while the fall of the Assad government was not a critical loss for Russia, it could prove to be an “existential” development for neighboring Iran and prompt Tehran to fast track its development of nuclear weapons. He admitted, however, that the country’s leadership has yet to make any indications regarding such a move and it would still take it several years to develop this kind of capacity.
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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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