RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.08.2024
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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“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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Ukraine making a ‘serious nuclear gamble’ – ex-Pentagon official.
Kiev’s alleged “dirty bomb” threat is an attempt to gain leverage over Moscow, Michael Maloof has said.
The alleged Ukrainian plot to attack Russian nuclear power plants demonstrates Kiev’s desperation and warrants a “full force” response from Moscow, former Pentagon official Michael Maloof told RT on Saturday.
In a report on Friday, Russian military journalist Marat Khairullin claimed that Kiev was “preparing a nuclear false flag – an explosion of a dirty atomic bomb” which would target “the storage sites of spent nuclear fuel of a nuclear power plant.” The attack would reportedly be launched on either the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in Energodar – also not far from the frontline – or the Kursk NPP in Kurchatov, and then blamed on Russia.
“This is pretty serious, if true. To play this nuclear gamble is quite serious indeed,” Maloof told RT. “This is Kiev’s effort to gain leverage, knowing that its own back is against the wall. This is desperation, but going the nuclear route would not only create an immediate problem in that region, but throughout all of Europe, so I think that this is really draconian, if that’s indeed what the Ukrainians have in mind.”
The threat is made more pressing by the fact that the Ukrainian military has weapons – including drones and American-supplied HIMARS rockets – capable of reaching both plants, Maloof continued.
Moscow should therefore take “pre-emptive action” and target Ukrainian military sites within range of the facilities, the former security policy analyst suggested.
Read more: Russia vows harsh response if Ukraine attacks Kursk nuclear plant
In a statement on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that any attempt by Kiev to create a nuclear disaster would be met with “tough military and military-technical countermeasures.”
By “dangling the nuclear threat in front of everyone,” Ukraine aims to force Russia to the negotiating table on its own terms, Maloof claimed. With Russian forces winning the battle of attrition in the Donbass, Kiev “knows it has no alternatives” and wants “to have things a little more favorable and have that leverage that they need in order to negotiate,” he added.
The Ukrainian military has repeatedly attacked the Zaporozhye NPP since it was seized by Russian forces in 2022. A drone attack on the plant last week caused a fire inside one of the facility’s cooling towers, forcing technicians to place the NPP’s six reactors in a state of “cold shutdown.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repeatedly condemned attacks on the Zaporozhye plant, but has refused to pin the blame on Ukrainian forces. Kiev denies any plant to carry out a false-flag attack on either the Zaporozhye or Kursk plants; Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky accused Russia of setting fire to its own nuclear plant last week.
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A meltdown at the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant would make the region uninhabitable, Stanislav Krapivnik has warned.
Ukraine’s armed forces could cause a nuclear disaster that would affect most of Europe if they strike the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik has warned.
In an interview with RT on Saturday, Krapivnik discussed the difference between a dirty bomb and a nuclear bomb, explaining that while a dirty bomb does not have the critical mass or enriched material, it could cause large scale contamination if it hits nuclear waste.
He went on to say that if the coolant system in an active plant is targeted, it would cause a “nuclear meltdown” which could lead to an incident similar to what happened at Fukushima or Chernobyl and which would impact most of Europe, especially this time of the year “when the wind blows northwest.”
Krapivnik predicted that “if there is enough evidence” of this threat, it would “force a very large reaction” from the Russian government, as a meltdown at the Kursk plant would make the region uninhabitable.
“And the fallout is going to go straight to the northwest into Europe,” he said, adding: “It’s going to hit the Poles, the Germans, the Danes, the Scandinavian countries,” right into the UK. “But apparently the leadership of those nations really doesn’t give a damn.”
Read more: Kiev ‘regime’ poses threat to all of Europe – Moscow
On Friday, Russian military journalist Marat Khairullin reported, citing sources, that Kiev is preparing to detonate a dirty atomic bomb targeting nuclear waste at either Russia’s Zaporozhye NPP or the Kursk NPP.
While the nuclear plant in Zaporozhye, the largest in Europe, has been shut down, the plant in Kursk Region is operational.
The Russian Defense Ministry responded to the reports by saying that any attempts to create a “man-made disaster in the European part of the continent” would be met with “tough military and military-technical countermeasures.” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on the international community “to immediately condemn the provocative actions prepared by the Kiev regime.”
Kiev has denied the allegations. Neither the UN nor the International Atomic Energy Agency have addressed the threat.
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Russia vows harsh response if Ukraine attacks Kursk nuclear plant.
Any attempt by Kiev to trigger a global disaster will be met with immediate retaliation.
The Russian military will unleash a swift retaliation if Ukraine launches an attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has warned. The nuclear facility is located not far from the frontline following Kiev’s cross-border incursion into Russia.
In a statement on Saturday, the ministry said it was taking very seriously reports of Kiev’s plans to attack the Kursk NPP, located about 90 km from the Ukraine-Russia border, which has become the scene of fierce fighting in recent days.
According to the military, the purpose of such a “provocation” would be to accuse Russia of attacking the plant.
“If the Kiev regime begins to realize its criminal plans aimed at creating a man-made disaster in the European part of the continent that would infer the radioactive contamination of vast territories, tough military and military-technical countermeasures will be taken immediately”.
Read more: Ukraine preparing ‘dirty nuke’ attack – media
While the ministry did not give details of a possible retaliation, it noted that Kiev’s preparations for an attack on the Kursk plant – which Moscow claims are backed by the West – would contradict a UN resolution on combating nuclear terrorism.
The statement comes after Russian military journalist Marat Khairullin reported on Friday, citing sources, that Kiev was “preparing a nuclear false flag – an explosion of a dirty atomic bomb” which would target “the storage sites of spent nuclear fuel of a nuclear power plant.”
According to the reporter, the strike could be launched on either Russia’s Zaporozhye NPP in Energodar – also not far from the frontline and the largest facility of its type in Europe – or the Kursk NPP in Kurchatov. Ukraine has vehemently denied the allegations.
According to Russian officials, the Kursk plant, which is crucial for the power supply of several neighboring regions, continues to operate normally.
Russia vows harsh response if Ukraine attacks Kursk nuclear plant.
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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.
KURSK: UKRAINE’S LAST THROW OF THE DICE
It is a pitiful sight for those who frequent casinos to see some poor, addicted slob continually double down on his bets and ultimately lose EVERYTHING. How much more pitiful to see an iniquitous regime throw away the lives of its citizens in something very similar.
The Kiev regime led by a second rate comedian who has not been funny at any time over the last two and a half years and who is nearing the end of his tether as well as his tenure, is on its last legs, propped up only by equally loathsome western sponsors. Zelnsky’s initial welcome as a peacemaker wore out long, long ago. Within months of becoming president of Ukraine he became a reckless warmonger and he has stayed that way until now.
Goaded into war by sponsors intent on weakening Russia and furthering their war against the peaceful nations rising to take away their global dominance the USA, UK and their European allies, used Ukraine as a tool and pawn to do their bidding. The result has been the death or grievous wounding of around half a million Ukrainian troops.
Beaten across every area of conflict up and down the Donbass battlelines Zelensky has insisted on national suicide via the incursion of his last best troops into the Kursk region of Russia. After a week or so we see that this reckless gamble has predictably failed. Zelensky’s hapless troops have been contained in almost every area where they have brought their unwanted presence. Though the goal of the incursion, reaching and capturing the Kursk nuclear power plant is now clearly beyond their reach there will be no withdrawal. Zelensky will insist, for appearances sake, that they remain… and die.
Already many Ukrainian troops are choosing to surrender rather than fight a hopeless battle against the Russian troops closing in all around them. Russia is using its drone squadrons to precisely locate every West-supplied vehicle within the region and destroy it along with any Ukrainian troops within them. In the last twenty-four hours alone a desperate Kiev regime has sent and lost six Patriot missile batteries near the Kursk battlelines. There is zero hope of any success for the Kursk mission. When, in the first few days, Kiev’s troops failed to take the small town of Sudzha (5,000-6,000 inhabitants) which it must have been thought would provide easy pickings. This was the first sign that things were not going to plan.
Despite reportedly being trained in Britain, the Ukrainians and associated British, American and Polish mercenaries (or sheep-dipped NATO troops) have failed in their task. They did take quite a number of small villages while failing to take Sudzha, but what kind of “victories” were these? They were what is termed ‘Pyrrhic Victories’, no real victory at all. A few vehicles comprising a small number of troops in fast-moving raiding parties drove around claiming to ‘take’ villages that offered no resistance to them. The only change these “bold warriors” made was in the flag flying over the village’s town hall, if it even had one. Meanwhile Russia drew up its plans against them.
Over the last two days we have seen the Ukrainian interlopers pushed back and destroyed in ever more locations. They have stopped trying to move forward in most places, unable to make any further inroads and suffering heavy losses. Unable to leave due to Kiev’s insistence they stay, fight and die they are either surrendering or seeking to fight on in areas where Russian support is still not as strong as it has been encountered elsewhere. The devastating knowledge must surely be permeating every thick Ukrainian skull by now that they will either never leave Russia or only to be taken prisoner and exchanged for Russian troops held captive in Ukraine.
The conflict in the Kursk region will continue for some time yet no doubt. It was Zelensky’s last throw of the dice, his last effort to double down. His sponsors in Washington, London, Brussels, Berlin and elsewhere will continue to double down, providing some replacement vehicles and the next game-changing doomed to fail superweapon. They are nearing their very last throw of the dice also. How so? Because Russia is now powering forward across the Donbass line of contact and especially so in the Avdeevka area where the town of Niu York is about to be liberated and then the city of Toretsk. Soon after the town of Pokrovsk will fall, the most strategically important town in the region, a logistic and transport hub for the regime that is vital for conveying troops and weaponry to the various battlefonts. Without Pokrovst the ability for the Ukrainian military to continue to the level of readiness required will be severely degraded.
Zelensky is desperate. Zelensky’s sponsors are also desperate. Both sources of evil see defeat and humiliation on the horizon. Yet instead of saving lives by admitting their defeat they will callously urge the hapless Ukrainian troops on from the comfort of their armchairs safely back in their capitals. They don’t want to be the ones who are in office when the hammer is finally brought down. So, they cynically double down instead. And push the date of humiliation and total defeat further down the road… a road littered by the dead bodies of those they sent uselessly to fight in an unwinnable war.
