RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 25.04.2023
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.
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*** HOW LONG NOW BEFORE THE WEST GIVES UP ON UKRAINE? ***
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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
Russia Grinds Bakhmut, Avdeyevka, Deploys Armata; Biden Fears Ukr Failure, US Allies No G7 Blockade.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Lavrov multilateralism. Politico, Biden fears failed offensive. WaPo, US blocked Moscow attack. U/1
THE DURAN
Biden-Harris 2024. Fox News fires Tucker Carlson.
THE DURAN
US War Propaganda Exposed w/ Ray McGovern, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen.
LEVAN GUDADZE
T-14 Armata tanks at the front, Ukrainian counteroffensive, Bakhmut, UN headquarters, Grain deal...
DANNY HAIPHONG
The US has DESTROYED the EU in Ukraine. Is Taiwan Next? w/ Brian Berletic and Angelo Giuliano.
QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT
Dark Money in U.S. Foreign Policy.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN
For Ukraine, US Weapons Makers Not Enough Staff.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - TONY SHAFFER
Ukraine War, At a Dangerous Threshold?
U.S. TOUR OF DUTY
Scott Ritter on the possibility of meeting Putin.
GEORGE GALLOWAY - CHRIS HEDGES
INTERVIEW: The election stolen in plain sight.
MALCOLM BURN
Prof. Kenneth Hammond-No War On China/Busting The Myths Of Western Imperialism.
MICHAEL ROSSI
Sergey Lavrov Address at United Nations Security Council - April 24, 2023 - English Subtitles.
RUSSIAN NEWS
Lavrov's speech at the United Nations Security Council | Russia, Ukraine, United States, NATO. RU.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
People in Crimea 'worried' about drone attacks but confident Russian army can repel them.
JACKSON HINKLE
We were right.
Zelensky Advsr Calls For "Elimination Of Pro Russians".
New PROXY WAR Against Russia.
Col Macgregor: Russia Could OCCUPY Kiev, March To POLAND.
Tucker Carlson FIRED From Fox News, Lavrov EXPOSES UN Frauds.
KIM IVERSEN
NEW INFO: Tucker FIRED From Fox News 10 Min Before Announcement, Murdoch Unhappy With J6 Coverage.
DUE DISSIDENCE
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson AND Don Lemon FIRED.
Tucker Carlson DEFENDS Indicted Black Socialists - w/ Sabby Sabs.
VREVELATIONS
Tucker Carlson Fired From Fox News: Shockwaves Across News World.
BREAKING POINTS
Krystal And Saagar REACT: Tucker OUT At Fox News.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Liberal Media WON’T COVER FBI Raid On Black Socialists.
Why Is The Government Targeting Black Socialists?
REALTRUTHTALK
Larry Johnson & Angry Warhawk: Talk Ukraine-Russia-Sudan-Syria & China.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russian Foreign Minister warns of U.S. attempts to destroy globalisation.
RUSSIAN WOMEN'S BATTALION
JOHN MARK DOUGAN
I took MASHA to Azovstal to SEE for HERSELF!
TARA READE
Ray McGovern | Complicit Silence on Ukraine Russia War & Pentagon Document Clues of Origin.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia vs U.S. nuclear clash imminent? Moscow warns Washington amid Ukraine war | Details:
Putin's ally Belarus mocks U.S. 'failure'; 'No Cold Shower For Russia at UNSC' | Watch:
Putin's men foil Ukraine's counteroffensive in Bakhmut | Zelensky left red-faced.
NATO nations fight publicly; Poland rips Germany for 'starting' Russia-Ukraine war | Details:
U.S.-led NATO faces anger in Bulgaria; Thousands tell Govt to adopt war neutrality | Watch:
Biden 'privately' worried about Ukraine's success in counteroffensive against Putin | Report:
Russia razes entire mortar team of Ukraine after Zelensky's men drop 40 bombs in Donetsk | Watch:
Putin's Black Sea Fleet blows up Ukrainian drones over Crimea; Blasts echo as attack repelled.
Protests in Germany against Ukraine arms aid spread; Hundreds march in Dusseldorf after Berlin.
Putin's ballistic missile strike wipes out 60 fighters from 'Georgian Legion' in Donbass | Watch:
WEALTHION
Will The US Lose Its Global Dominance? | General Wesley Clark.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
George Soros and Hillary Clinton DON’T Want You To SEE This Video!
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Beijing reiterates China’s defensive nuclear strategy and ‘no first use’ policy, in contrast with US.
CGTN
British foreign secretary needs to dust off history books: MOFA.
STANSBERRY RESEARCH
'The Next Bankruptcy Wave is Just Starting'.
THE CONVO COUCH
FIORELLA LIVE FROM MOSCOW & IT’S SPRING. 🍄🌺🌸🌼🌻🌞🐻😍
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
Dozens of Foreign Military Attaches Visit Qingdao to Mark Founding Anniversary of PLA Navy.
China to Release Strategies, Plans for Deep Space Exploration.
LIU SIVAYA
💸 PREPÁRENSE PARA PAGAR: la Unión Europea ha encontrado la solución #europa #ucrania | liusivaya.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 25th April 2023:
Biden prepares for Ukraine failure – Politico.
The White House has reportedly hedged its bets in case Kiev’s anticipated offensive doesn’t deliver.
US President Joe Biden’s administration is “quietly preparing for the possibility” that Ukraine’s much-heralded offensive doesn’t deliver the “total victory” Kiev wanted, Politico reported on Monday, citing several anonymous officials.
While the US government’s public support for Ukraine is “unwavering,” officials have expressed fears in private that the White House could be caught in a crossfire of criticism should the attack fall short of expectations, the outlet said. The ‘hawks’ would claim the US and its allies had not given Ukraine enough weapons and ammunition, while the ‘doves’ would see it as proof that Kiev can’t win.
“If Ukraine can’t gain dramatically on the battlefield, the question inevitably arises as to whether it is time for a negotiated stop to the fighting,” Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told Politico. “It’s expensive, we’re running low on munitions, we’ve got other contingencies around the world to prepare for.”
One official, who requested anonymity, said the US had “surged” weapons and equipment to Ukraine and “nearly completed” all that Kiev had asked for. But behind closed doors, the US is “worried about what Ukraine can accomplish.”
The US military believes the conflict has bogged down in a trench war, with neither side able to advance very far or very fast. Politico originally reported that Ukraine had suffered 100,000 troops killed, but later changed that to refer to total casualties, including the wounded. The outlet also noted that Kiev’s forces have gone through “historic amounts of ammunition and weaponry,” and that “even the West’s prodigious output” has been unable to meet their needs.
The Pentagon now doubts that Ukraine can achieve its objective of reaching Crimea, though the US military still hopes it could “hamper” the Russian supply lines.
A negotiated truce would be sold to both the Western and Ukrainian public as a temporary ceasefire, “leaving the door open for Ukraine to regain more of its territory at a future date,” some US officials told Politico. This has been done before, with the 2015 Minsk Agreement – according to recent admissions by the German and French leaders at the time – though the outlet did not bring that up.
US officials also proposed to sweeten the deal with “NATO-like security guarantees” to Kiev, more money from the EU, and even more weapons for the Ukrainian military, while “re-engaging China” to push Russia into negotiating.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Ukraine Will Start After The Fall Of Bakhmut. Russians Too. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.25
Khromovo Has Fallen. Nevelske And Novokalynove Are Next. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.25
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
PRIGOZHIN: MUD NOT DRY YET - Ukraine land South of Kherson; Heavy probing in Kupyansk-Svatove Front.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: Ukraine Kherson Offensive... Or Not?
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Bakhmut Front Update [25 April 2023].
FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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
HISTORY OF MAKUS ENG
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
FAB-500s Cause Utter Destruction | Russian Forces Recapture Valuable Territory 25/04/23.
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
THE TERMINALLY SKEWED ELITE VIEW FROM THE WEST
What can account for the disdain, aggression and relentlessly patronising attitude of western political elites to Russia, China and other states with systems of governance that diverge from those in the West?
What is it that informs, motivates and supports the apparently totally fixed notions within these elites that they are singularly exceptional and that their societies are composed of the peak that humanity can aspire to?
Finally, what is the overarching goal of the western powers in their constant aggression against Russia, China and others, often dressed up as a defence mechanism against them?
It seems to me that the genesis of all of the characteristics and behaviours above stem from a, for them, convenient, matrix of dynamic mythology, vacuum-flask upbringing, pseudo-religious concepts and a large dose of self-interest. Add to this what is a very common militaristic/macho outlook, a devotion to maximum competition and an easy acceptance of semi-criminal or criminal behaviour if they deem the occasion warrants it.
Much of the above is seen as normality in the USA at the chauvinistic/hard-nosed feminist end of the scale. It is simply normal for such types to be tough on others, to have a disciplinarian outlook, looking down on those who are weaker or who are not ‘of your tribe’.
Anyone who has come into contact with those who run the upper social, political or military worlds of the USA will recognise the type. You have to fit into this type to be accepted to any degree in those upper-class circles. If you don’t fit you get rejected at the outset. Only those who correspond to their definition of ‘the right stuff’ are acceptable. Once accepted you join the ranks in a similar way that troops in earlier days did, with shields defending your squad, weapons aimed resolutely outward, always ready for the enemy that is forever ‘out there’.
The administrative ranks of western political organisations below the topmost ranks behave in similar manner. They get paid as an elite and certainly consider themselves an elite and those on the ‘other side, wherever that may be, are beyond the pale, regarded as of the ‘lower orders’. The similarity to out and out racism is painfully obvious.
This is why a resurrection of the Cold War mentality was so easily effected in such people. They fit right into the mould, already pre-primed for that particular shape. Then, after years of conditioning by endlessly repetitive warnings of just how bad ‘the other’ is, how devious, dirty and well, evil they are, the armour of prejudice is so enclosing as to be airtight and will not let even the tiniest sliver of open-minded insight inside.
Imagine then how difficult it would be as such a person to conceive the possibility that you might want, or need to treat those ‘others’ with something approaching respect. It would be unthinkable to such a person. Thus the unedifying spectacle occurs of treating those ‘over there’ as lesser beings, as unredeemably evil souls who you have nothing in common with, you being part of the upper echelons of the “perfect” western world.
Do you think this might lead to something similar to what we see today in the way western political and media elites speak of those ‘others’ in Russia and China?
It’s as if they are in some old ‘B’ movie where there is always an evil (and often foreign) boss determined to destroy the world. The present situation is even worse than during the Cold War. A modicum of mutual respect back then made diplomacy along with a certain degree of dialogue possible, enabling agreements to occur. Diplomacy and dialogue in anything like the form of those days is notable by its absence.
We are expected to believe that Biden (the good guy) will talk with genuine respect to Putin (the bad guy). How possible is this after all that has been said over these many years, including Biden’s agreement to the assertion that Putin is “a killer”? Besides, do American political elites make agreements set in stone and affirmed by their signatures… or do they make tactical moves to fox those ‘others’ and then abandon their supposed integrity whenever they feel like it to get the better of them? I would say that the evidence points to expediency among them rather than reliability these days.
Trace it all back and you’ll find these elite classes in environments where the certainty of their own exceptionalism goes without saying. The Ivy League, Harvard and Princeton environments, the old money privilege and patronage, the super self-confidence and world-defeating ego that fuels a political career in particular and generates many of the media establishment also.
What other result can we really expect from the kind of upbringing and mutually self-congratulatory corresponding superior visions of their place in the world and combative edge to remain forever top dog (where their supreme self-confidence tells them they of course belong)? No other result is possible where those who do not fit are weeded out at their very first detection.
These creatures of preening exceptionalism, of self-sustaining, self-confident myopia, of disdain for all those outside their tribe, those with a determination to stay on top no matter what… look down on the rest of us from their ivory towers in smug self-satisfaction, always ready to assail and destroy any who threaten their status.
This is the unchanging stance of successive U.S. political elites and their media brethren.
This is the elite view from the West.