RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.06.2023
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.
Please note: We will be in transit from Azerbaijan over the next 24 hours. This will result in variations to the timing of updates. Our apologies for this alteration to our daily updates.
*** UKRAINE LOSING: RELUCTANT EUROPE TO SEND IN TROOPS? ***
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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 Regains Vremivka Ledge, Captures Leo2s Bradleys, Ukraine Begs More Arms, Blinken Talks.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Baerbock, Leopards are like iPhones. Habeck, no Russian gas in 2024. Biden insurance policy. U/1
THE DURAN w/ SCOTT RITTER
The next wave of the counteroffensive w/Scott Ritter (Live).
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russia captures Leopard tanks, NATO military exercises, Africa for Peace.
GLENN GREENWALD
RFK Jr.: "A China War will be the end of the world."
REDACTED
"It has started" - Zelensky says MASSIVE counter offensive has begun | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
WHAT COULD RUSSIA DEMAND TO END UKRAINE WAR?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DANIEL DAVIS
Has PEACE Died? Is Perpetual War Inevitable?
PATRICK LANCASTER
Under fire Frontline Russians Expose Lies In Russia.
SCOTT RITTER
Скотт Риттер О всеобщей мобилизации в России.
Scott Ritter on general mobilization in Russia.
Talks Ukraine/Russia.
Ukrainians caused eco disaster.
U.S. Military's Inability to Anticipate and Prepare.
SEYMOUR HERSH
☭ Russia's Main Forces Still Not Deployed: 🪖What Does This Mean?
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Ukraine F-16 Training Could Start This Summer, Israeli Intel Unit Preps for War With Iran, and More.
JACKSON HINKLE
Trump PROMISES Russia & China Peace.
Meloni BACKSTABBED Berlusconi Before His Death.
Russia RECAPTURES Makarivka, Ukrainian Platoon SURRENDERS In Avdeevka.
RICHARD MEDHURST
They Just Can’t Stop Bombing Civilian Infrastructure, Huh?
EMIL COSMAN
Is Gonzalo Lira still alive? Why are West's "free" media silent about his detention in Ukraine?
Bad news for Ukraine. Russians deploy Bal coastal missile systems (500Km range) to Bryansk.
Russian economy returning to growth. Western sanctions didn't affect Russia more than the West.
Really Orwellian. US "free" press, Fox News, want to limit Tucker Carlson's freedom of speech.
Watch Jordan Peterson calling out BBC Hardtalk weasel's "trick" of sticking statements on Peterson.
Germany needs Nord Stream 1+2 NOW. Germany warns of Industry Shutdown without Russian gas.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin Humiliates NATO; Russia Parades Captured German Tanks, U.S. Bradleys In Ukraine | Watch:
Missile Strike On U.S. Chopper? 22 American Soldiers Injured In Syria Helicopter Crash.
NATO's Admission of Failure amid Russian War in Ukraine? 'European Security Architecture...'
Putin Makes Ukraine Pay; Zelensky Pleads NATO Nation for New Leopard Tanks after Russian Assault.
'Russia Gaining More Support, U.S. Losing…': Seymour Hersh’s Warning On Ukraine Counteroffensive.
Russia Blows Up Ukrainian S-300 Radar Station.
Putin's Army 'Mocks' Wagner 'Revolt'; Chechen Forces Sign Deal With Russian Defence Ministry.
Russia's Strike Drone 'Stings' Ukrainian Army in South Donetsk; Nearly 500 Soldiers 'Wiped Out'.
Russia Bombed 'Mighty' Leopards Using This Weapon | All About Putin’s 'Game-Changer' Drone.
Ukrainian Troops Blown to Smithereens in Russian Guided Missile Strike in Zaporizhzhia | Watch:
DUE DISSIDENCE
Green Party's Howie Hawkins AGAINST Ukraine Peace Talks?
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia DEFLECTS Kamikaze Drone Attack On Ship.
Moldova CAVES To Ukraine & NATO.
THE HILL
New Book Set In Russia CENSORED After 'Eat, Pray, Love' Author SLAMMED By Pro-Ukraine Activists.
Fox News DESPERATE To Silence Tucker Carlson, Sends Cease-And-Desist Letter Over Twitter Show.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Fake News Stories Everyone Fell For.
POLITICS STEADY
Threats to our Constitution are coming from within - Tulsi Gabbard.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Ignoring US Demands, Arab Gulf States Deepen Ties with China and Russia.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Iraq: Nine years since Camp Speicher Massacre.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
Julius Malema Demands That South Africa Leaves ICC For Being Biased And Imperialist.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Australia’s War Crimes Exposed in the Trial of the Century | David McBride.
ALEXANDRE GUERREIRO
A contra-ofensiva a 12JUN2023: de aldeia em aldeia?
LIU SIVAYA
THE LEOPARDS BURN: Russia's stronghold that Ukraine overlooked and is paying dearly | liusivaya. (In Spanish.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 13th June 2023:
More than half of world’s population supports Russia – Seymour Hersh.
The US has lost so much credibility internationally over the conflict in Ukraine, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist says.
A majority of people globally are on Russia’s side in relation to its conflict with Ukraine, while US influence in the international arena is declining, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has said.
“The percentage, particularly of the African and Central Asian and South Asian countries, that have changed from being pro-America to being pro-Russia is really quite dramatic,” he noted during an interview with George Galloway, which was published on YouTube on Sunday.
“Much more than half of the world’s population supports Russia in the war and not the US. This was never the way it was,” Hersh said.
Washington has “lost so much credibility around the world” amid the conflict in Ukraine, said the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who returned to the spotlight in February when he published a bombshell report, accusing the US of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines. Washington rejected the report as “utterly false and complete fiction.”
According to Hersh, an example of waning US influence is the rapprochement between former arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran, which began in March.
“It’s happened because… of Ukraine and dislike of the war” and was a “big blow” to the people in the Biden administration, who “hate” Iran, he said.
As a result of the mending of ties between Tehran and Riyadh, “we’re going to have a settlement in Yemen that we – in America – could never get. We’re getting pushed out,” the 86-year-old added.
Polls show that support for Washington’s involvement in Ukraine is declining in the US as people become increasingly worried about its economic cost, Hersh said.
“America spent something like $140 billion on this war at a time when 15 million Americans were taken off free healthcare by this administration. I mean what’s going on America this is just outrageous,” he added.
The journalist expressed belief that Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive is “doomed to fail” as Kiev’s military units all have different training, weapons and commanders, and seem unable to work together efficiently.
READ MORE: ‘Crazy’ that Russia and Ukraine still trade – Seymour Hersh
US President Joe Biden apparently thinks the conflict in Ukraine “is a ticket for him to be reelected. And it seems to me we’re in for some real political problems here in America,” Hersh predicted.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Russian Spring | Ukraine Pulls up Reserves. Putin Discussed Buffer Zone. Military summary 2023.06.13
More Troops At The Vremevka Tactical Bridgehead | Massive Strike. Military Summary 2023.06.13
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
[ Avdiivka Front ] UKRAINE ATTACKS PERVOMAISKE, KRASNOHORIVKA & NOVOBAKHMUTIVKA; to push back pincer.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Southern front update [13 June 2023] -New map.
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Smashed Ukrainian Leopards and Bradleys.
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 Falling For A Russian Trap!?! | Ukrainian Summer Offensive Update 13/06/23.
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.
WESTERN MAINSTREAM NEWS: IT’S JINGOISM, NOT JOURNALISM
When Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s top war correspondent tweets an image showing Ukrainians the best places to throw Molotov Cocktails onto Russian tanks to incapacitate them and kill their occupants you know that journalism has died within him and been replaced by jingoism.
‘Jingoism: an attitude of belligerent nationalism, or a blind adherence to the rightness or virtue of one's own nation, society, or group, simply because it is one's own.’
For over a year now we have seen the mass media of the entire collective west demonstrate a full-blooded jingoistic policy where one side receives positive coverage and the other negative. The Ukrainians are depicted as virtual saints, including of course their heroic leader and Ukrainians in general (except for the Russian-speaking Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine) are poor innocents suffering from the evil Russian demons.
The BBC in particular has entirely lost any trace of objectivity and could easily be mistaken for an arm of the British Army, Air Force or MI6. Its editors and commentators (they can’t be called journalists) appear to lust after Russian deaths and carve every possible article into a paean of praise for the Ukrainian regime and its forces and a witch’s curse on the other.
It’s not journalism and in fact bears no resemblance to it when examined by a fair mind. It’s not the kind of material that famed British war correspondent Robert Fisk used to produce which readers could trust was the nearest he could get to the truth on whichever war he covered. Fisk was meticulous in his accuracy. The BBC now has become completely corrupted due to its total prejudice in favour of projecting a fake Ukrainian “victory”.
Not that this is a sudden change for the BBC.
For over a decade, well over a decade on the subject of Vladimir Putin and Russia the BBC has never lived up to its self-awarded epithet of being impartial. The very idea that they could claim this in this context is of course laughable. Instead the BBC set itself up as judge, jury and executioner by the “pen” (the pen being mightier than the sword, or so they say). The BBC in this respect mirrors the self-awarded status of the West in granting itself the “right” to be arbiter of all right and wrong and self-appointed punisher of wrongdoers as seen through their eyes.
This is the abiding attitude that permeates BBC news (if we can still call it news and not state-sponsored propaganda). It absolutely cannot be called journalism that they do with all that power and influence they wield.
So, what is it if it is not journalism?
Isn’t it obvious presuming the full meaning of the word is known and understood.
It is clearly jingoism, and about as far from journalism as it is possible to be.
Jingoism leads automatically to disinformation which leads inevitably to the most misleading communications possible, to propaganda.
The unannounced war against Russia is skewing all western mass media in the West has created a ‘war mode’ where nothing positive can ever be said about “the enemy” and nothing negative about ‘your side’, Ukraine.
No one in the orbit of the collective west should be under any illusions. They are being lied to daily, misinformed hourly and subjected to the blanket lies that emanate from the propaganda generated by lethal doses of jingoism.