RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 28.06.2023
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.
*** ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE UKRAINIAN IMPLOSION ***
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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
Putin Confirms MoD Funded Wagner, Ukr No Breakthroughs; Blinken Beijing Fails, US China Prepare War.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Tucker, free Gonzalo. Kramatorsk tragedy, fog of war. NYT, Surovikin knew. Stealing from Lavra. U/1
GLENN GREENWALD
AUTOCRAT: Zelensky Suspends Elections in Ukraine.
SENATOR RICHARD BLACK
Prigozhin is a narcissist who constantly denigrates the Russian army.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
Russian strike targeted NATO-Ukrainian deployment point at a hotel in Kramatorsk.
THE CONVO COUCH
Prigozhin’s Attempted Mutiny, What Really Happened??
THE DURAN
Elections in Greece, left collapses. Elections in Germany, AfD surges.
DANNY HAIPHONG
PUTIN DEFEATS PRIGOZHIN'S MUTINY, UKRAINE IS NEXT W/ BRIAN BERLETIC OF @TheNewAtlas!.
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN
Speech to Russian security forces after the rebellion.
After armed rebellions comes chaos and civil war!
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive, PMS Wagner in Belarus, Poland vs Germany, Russia - Cryptocurrency...
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Switzerland Blocks Leopard Tanks Sale To Ukraine; Blow To Zelensky Amid Fightback Against Russia.
Putin, Lukashenko To Attend India-Hosted SCO Summit Amid War In Ukraine | Details:
Ukrainian Army Vehicles Blown To Smithereens In Deadly Russian Attack In Donetsk | Watch:
Russian Army's 'Deadly Dragon' U-77 Decimates Huge Ukrainian Unit; Dramatic Strike Captured On Cam.
Putin Eyeing Taiwan? Russia Dispatches Warships Near Island | Taipei Activates Military Aircraft.
Vladimir Putin positions himself as peace mediator.
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 77: Ask the Inspector.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - PHIL GIRALDI (EX-CIA)
FOREVER WAR - What they want us to believe / Putin is WEAK.
THE HILL
Biden On Putin, Ukraine: 'He's Clearly Losing The Iraq War'; SECOND Gaffe In A Week.
RICHARD MEDHURST - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Former CIA Spy on Ukraine War: Ray McGovern Full Interview.
DANNY HAIPHONG
Russia DESTROYS the US Dollar with HUGE Trade Increase in Chinese Yuan.
REDACTED
Putin just called their BLUFF and they lost big time.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
The Rise & Fall of Putin's Cook: What is next for Russia?
VANESSA BEELEY
The Prigozhin plot - who was managing the narrative?
JACKSON HINKLE
TRAGIC: Ukrainians KILLED By Commander For REFUSING To Fight.
Putin Sending WAGNER To KIEV?
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Wagner Chief's Belarus Exile Spooks NATO; 'Ready To Face Moscow Or Minsk,' Says Stoltenberg.
Nepali Gorkhas Train to Enter Wagner Group; How Youth from India's Neighbour Got Lured | Explained.
Lukashenko Details Chat With Wagner Boss as Prigozhin Begins Belarus Exile; 'Swear Words, Euphoria'.
Putin Exposes Wagner Lies, Reveals Russia Gave Wagner Nearly $1 Billion In Past Year | Details:
Putin's War Plot Against NATO? Russia Flies Jets Over Baltic Sea After Exiling Wagner Boss.
'Coup In Belarus...': Putin Ally Drops Bombshell After Wagner Rebellion | Watch:
KATIE HALPER
Russia's Coup With Mark Ames & Yasha Levine, The War On Free Speech With Omali Yeshitela.
CHRIS THRALL
Wagner, The KHAZARlAN MAFlA & World War III.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Lukashenko supports Putin by asserting that their peoples must stand united against challenges.
UN official reports arbitrariness and torture of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
BREAKING POINTS
Zelensky: NO Elections Until End Of War.
BORZZIKMAN
NATO is Terrified. Russia has Started Using the Most Powerful 'FAB-1000' Bombs in Ukraine.
RUSSELL BRAND
Russian Coup EXPOSED - What They're NOT Telling You.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
PUTIN, PRIGOZHIN, LUKASHENKO, WHO PLAYED IT BEST.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Trump Tells FORBIDDEN Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy!
THE CONVO COUCH
Title: Round 3 Power Panel w/ Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, Clint Russell & Craig Pasta Jardula.
RADIO BELARUS - Международное радио "Беларусь.
"And why are we at war with Russia at all?"Carlson asks American authorities uncomfortable questions.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Who Will Win America's Next Civil War?
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
How corporate profits are driving inflation, not workers' wages.
LIU SIVIYA
LAS TRES VERSIONES DE LA REBELIÓN RUSA: los hechos según Putin, Prigozhin y Lukashenko | liusivaya.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 28th June 2023:
Ukrainian victory is ‘impossible’ – Orban.
The nature of Western cooperation with Kiev during the conflict has been a failure, the Hungarian leader says.
The idea that Western military aid would enable Ukraine to defeat Russia on the battlefield is wrong, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.
“I stand on the grounds of reality. The reality is that the nature of cooperation between Ukraine and the West is a failure,” Orban said in an interview with German tabloid Bild on Tuesday.
Suggesting that the weapons, funding and intelligence being provided to Kiev by the US and its EU allies would allow Ukraine to win “is a misunderstanding of the situation. That’s impossible,” he argued.
“The problem is that the Ukrainians will run out of soldiers earlier than the Russians, and this will be the deciding factor eventually,” the prime minister said.
He rejected the interviewer’s contention that all of Ukraine would have been captured by Russia without NATO aid, describing this as “a hypothesis to which there’s no evidence.”
According to Orban, a ceasefire must be reached in the conflict between Moscow and Kiev as soon as possible or Ukraine will “lose a huge amount of wealth and many lives, and unimaginable destruction will happen. That’s why peace is the only solution at this moment.”
However, he said fighting would not stop until Kiev’s main backer, Washington, decides that there should be peace.
“What really matters is what Americans want to do. Ukraine is no longer a sovereign country. They don’t have any money. They have no weapons. They can only fight because we in the West support them,” the Hungarian leader explained.
He criticized EU sanctions imposed on Moscow over the conflict, saying they failed in both “bringing Russia to its knees” and in achieving peace in Ukraine. “Sanctions have not worked. I am surprised that we turned out to be incapable of formulating them appropriately,” he said.
Budapest has been one of the few EU capitals to maintain business relations with Moscow because it was “good for the Hungarian people,” Orban said. “I’m fighting for Hungary. I don’t care about [Russia’s President Vladimir] Putin. I don’t care about Russia. I take care of Hungary.”
READ MORE: Too much ‘blah blah’ in EU politics – Orban
He also commented on the failed revolt by the Wagner private military company, which occurred in Russia last week. “I don’t see much significance in this event” because it has no effect on “the most important thing,” which is the prospect of achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine, he stated.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 28th June 2023 : Ukrainian victory is ‘impossible’ – Orban.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Summer Operations | Ukraine Is Losing Time In The Battle For The South. Military Summary 2023.06.28
Antonov Bridge | The Second Battle Of Bakhmut | Tactical Redeployment. Military Summary 2023.06.28
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
OPS DOWNSIZED after Wagner coup; Streamline to 3 fronts [ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 488-489 (26-27/6).
STORM UNLEASHED: Ukr's Massive Offensives Amidst Wagner Mutiny Chaos! - brought many successes.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE - June 28th: Kherson, Kurdyumivka, Bakhmut.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS 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
HS MAPPING
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Ukraine's Offensive Hits A WALL | Update On Russian Internal Strife.
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 - RUNNING ON EMPTY TO AN INEVITABLE, ALMIGHTY CRASH
Prior to the coup in Kiev during the winter months of 2013-2014 Ukraine was a corrupt but reasonably prosperous nation. The corruption involved the top echelon of politicians and their oligarch friends. These were predominantly the figures of the right, some of them connected to those of the even further right who carried guns and had trained hard for the day when they would be put to use by one of these elites. In that winter they realised that their moment had come. The first protesters who had gathered on Maidan Square in Kiev sought movement of Ukraine toward the EU. In that direction they saw a better life for themselves. Those far in the east of the country however, knew they would not share in this newfound bounty.
In the east where the industrial plants and mines predominantly are the people look east, not west, they by majority speak Russian and know well that their prospects as a people within the region of the Donbass hang on their relationship with Russia. For the initially peaceful protesters on the Maidan those in the east were not important in the slightest. They had always voted for the politicians that were in opposition to those they favoured. And to the extreme right in western Ukraine they were ‘Moskals’, Russians, their deadly enemy from WWII and the years preceding it. Here we have the three allegiances within these three groupings and a president and government attempting to reconcile them.
1. The predominantly Russian-speaking people of the Donbass living and working in eastern and south-eastern Ukraine.
This group of several millions, the majority of them never having travelled to western Ukraine worked hard for low wages and resented that their hard work never seemed to benefit their region, all the proceeds going to the capital in western Ukraine. Russia was right next door with a porous border for them to go back and forth, inter-marry and conduct trade.
2. The predominantly Ukrainian-speaking people of western Ukraine.
This group who would only travel to eastern and south-eastern Ukraine during summer holidays on the Crimean peninsula, looked toward the west and increasingly saw joining the European Union and NATO as their best bet for a more successful future. As in the case of the Ukrainians of the Donbass their primary concern was earning a living and improving their standard of living.
3. The ultranationalist minority of exclusively Ukrainian-speaking western Ukrainians.
These are the neo-Nazis that you will have heard of, predominantly young, skinhead types who demonstrated their power through hate-speech and violence and who formed notions of allegiance to certain mythologies concerning Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the rabid, extreme desire for Ukrainian nationhood that would drive all Russian-speakers from within its borders and ban the use of the Russian language entirely. This group stands for Ukraine alone, unconnected to either the west or east, ‘Ukraine Over All’, ‘Ukraine for the Ukrainians’ and to hell with all others.
These forces would create the toxic mix that has brought ruin onto the entire nation, beginning with the ultra-violent events cheered on by the leaders of western nations in Kiev in the winter of 2013-14.
This was and still is a nation pulling itself apart. The solution, to let the east join Russia where its affiliations of all kinds, cultural, historical and through marriage and those Ukrainian of the west who see themselves as Europeans, enabled to go their separate ways, was unacceptable to the western powers. The people of eastern Ukraine was to be brought kicking and screaming into the EU and NATO no matter how they might protest about it. The USA and the leaders of the EU nations wanted it. So it must be brought about.
The people of Crimea and the Donbass didn’t need degrees in rocket-science to see what significance the Maidan riots had for them. They saw the president and government they had overwhelmingly helped elect brought down by a gun, Molotov Cocktail, toxic spray and brick-wielding mob having been infiltrated by the young men in category 3. above. They knew what that group wanted, it wanted them gone. Any by any means. The first target was their language. Then came the Ukrainian army to put down their reaction to what they saw going on and the knowledge of what was to come. The Ukrainian army largely did not have the heart to attack the Russian-speakers of eastern Ukraine. But those who found their way there from those in category 3. relished the thought of attacking them and wherever and whenever possible, killing them or driving them out.
So it was that an eight year war begin from the Spring of 2014. The villages, towns and cities of the Donbass were besieged and mortar shells flew at random into them. High rise apartment blocks suffered the greatest damage, then came hospitals and schools. The shells that somehow avoided hitting the high buildings landed among suburban homes and in town centres. In all around fourteen to fifteen thousand died during that time and are still dying to this day. Families, men, women, children, the elderly, to the most extreme haters they were all ‘Moskals’, ‘Russians’ and for them, legitimate targets.
This began the war in Ukraine, not the actions of Russia in February of 2022, but the actions of the Ukrainian hard right with their ultra-violent attacks on the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass who, having been denied entry to the Russian Federation sought safety in gaining the autonomy of their region as their second-best option. This was denied them however, through the combined efforts of successive Ukrainian regimes and the leaders of primarily, Germany and France. The Minsk Accords were the vehicles within which Russia sought a peaceful and fair security for the Donbass WITHIN Ukraine. It became clear that only Russia had in truth sought this goal. All others had merely used the Minsk Accords as a way of buying time in which to build up the Ukrainian regime militarily.
The wrecking of the goal within the Minsk Accords of reaching a peaceful and amicable solution, ratified as it was at the United Nations, ended all Russia’s hopes for a peaceful outcome to the Donbass question. No way through to the peaceful and amicable solution now existed. In its place was a growing threat from a Ukraine rapidly becoming a de facto NATO state that would present a growing threat on Russia’s border and an imminent threat to the Russian-speaking majority of the Donbass.
The violent seed of all that has come to represent the conflict in Ukraine can be seen all the way back in that awful winter of 2013-14 on Kiev’s Maidan where violence, not debate posed as the acceptable way forward. The killing of seventeen lightly-armed young policemen did not faze American or European leaders one bit. An organised false flag massacre perpetrated on the protester’s side against their own people through a group of Georgian mercenaries was made the catalyst by all who lauded the mob as “peaceful protesters” and condemned those not guilty of the massacre to be overthrown.
Anyone who has seen the “democratic process” of the Maidan with police burning, being attacked with every weapon imaginable, knows without a shadow of a doubt, if they are fair-minded, that this was the genesis of all that was to come. Right down to the present day where Russia seeks the only road forward left to it, to destroy every extremist, either military or political, that exists within western Ukraine and finally bring the peace it has worked toward for so long now. It acts to END the war that the Ukrainian extremists began in the winter of 2013-14. It does so with huge reluctance. The almost infinite patience with which Russia sought a peaceful end to all this though Minsk demonstrates this.
Russia WILL achieve her goals because she has no alternative but to do so. All else would leave her vulnerable and open to attacks both covert and overt, by saboteurs, provocateurs, western intelligence and military agencies and above all by NATO. This is an existential issue for Russia. It must achieve making Ukraine a normal (and neutral) state where its ethnic minority, the Russian-speaking population can live in peace and security. And now, having embarked on the only course left to it by both successive Ukrainian regimes and their western backers, it must take the present path through to a comprehensive conclusion that delivers every Russian goal being hard fought for now.
Due to ALL of the above Ukraine is now a nation without a viable economy. It is a nation utterly reliant on financing of all aspects of Ukrainian governance from outside. Without the billions coming in from outside it is insolvent, unable to pay either debts, bills or wages, bereft of any meaningful economy with which to survive, destined to be run by others in perpetuity. It is a ghost state, an empty shell of a nation, a failed state that has become a simpering beggar, always looking for the next hand out from its sponsors. Those sponsors are now showing signs of self inflicted damage due to attacks on the Russian economy which have completely backfired. In due course Ukraine will simply become too great a burden on them, those presently in office will be replaced… the flow of money will dwindle, leading to an inevitable and almighty crash.
UKRAINE - RUNNING ON EMPTY TO AN INEVITABLE, ALMIGHTY CRASH
