RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 18.12.2024
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.
USA USES TERRORISTS IN SYRIA. UKRAINE COMMITS MURDER IN MOSCOW. BRITAIN HELPS ISRAEL KILL GAZANS. THREE NATIONS WITHIN AN EVIL EMPIRE.
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Ukraine’s Direct Role in Russia’s Chem Defense Chief’s Murder.
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense of the Russian armed forces, and his aide were killed in a bomb blast in Moscow early on Tuesday. It was clear that Ukraine was the mastermind and organizer of the blast, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The suspect in the murder of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence, promised a $100,000 reward and relocation to the EU, said Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
⚡️🧵(1/5) THE INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TERRORIST BLAST THAT KILLED GENERAL KIRILLOV HAD PLANTED THE EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ON AN ELECTRIC SCOOTER
Additional details have emerged: https://t.co/tHX0FWiAoN pic.twitter.com/7Xuo0WeMU6— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) December 18, 2024
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Ukraine pulled the strings: A booby-trapped explosive device was placed on a scooter parked near the entrance to Kirillov's building. Online footage from a camera installed in a car was broadcast to the plot’s ringleaders in Dnepr, said Russia’s Investigative Committee.
Role of biolabs: At regular briefings, Kirillov presented evidence against the US, its Western allies and the Kiev regime of operating biolabs, plotting false flags with the use of toxic substances, and plans to create a "dirty bomb".
Western media angle: Ukraine was responsible for the killing of Kirillov, who was “a legitimate target,” said The New York Times, citing an official with Ukraine's spy agency, the SBU. CNN, The Independent, other outlets churned out similar reports.
West’s dirty money: Kiev orchestrated the murder of Kirillov as payback for hurting major financial interests tied to the Pentagon-run Ukraine biolabs scheme, retired CIA intelligence official Larry Johnson told Sputnik.
Legacy of Truth: Kirillov’s role in exposing Kiev’s hand in such illegal US-backed chemical and biological research put a target on his back, said ex-senior Pentagon security policy analyst Michael Maloof.
Officials in Kiev: Head of Zelensky's office Mykhailo Podolyak claimed that Ukraine does not use “terrorist methods," although that is precisely their modus operandi.
Name on notorious hit list: The Moscow address of the slain general was cited underneath his photo on the infamous neo-Nazi doxxing website Myrotvorets, which is in effect a hit list for the Kiev regime.
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Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense of the Russian armed forces and his assistant were killed in a bomb blast outside a residential block in Moscow on Tuesday morning.
The assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Troops of Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense, is definitely an act of terror, Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense, told Sputnik.
“[The perpetrators] plant the bomb in a scooter, put it outside of his apartment and then detonated. That's terrorism,” he said.
The fact that the attack took place in Moscow and that the perpetrators knew where Kirillov lived, suggests significant planning and coordination, raising questions about the possible involvement of Ukrainian operatives or Russian individuals working on Ukraine's behalf.
Maloof said Kirillov’s role in revealing Ukraine’s involvement in US-backed chemical and biological research made him a target.
"What he has been doing is revealing the extent to which Ukraine has been involved in illegal US chemical and biological research," Maloof explained, noting the sensitive nature of the revelations.
Key Revelations Slain Gen. Kirillov Exposed About Pentagon’s Biolabs Scheme
“And I know it was very sensitive because Victoria Nuland, in testimony before Congress last year, I believe it was, said that it would it would not be good if Russia was able to take over some of the sites because of what the sites contain,” he added.
“What is it that the United States is doing in those research labs that that when she was a member of the Biden administration, did not want revealed?” Maloof asked. “Kirillov was the one who exposed this that chemical, biological research was ongoing in those labs.”
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Mass Murder of Civilians in Selidovo: Report Exposes Ukrainian Forces' Atrocities.
The International Public Tribunal for the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and Their Associates has presented new evidence of atrocities committed by the Kiev troops in Selidovo in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), which was liberated by the Russian armed forces on October 29.
The organization's report titled the 'Mass shooting of civilians in the city of Selidovo by the Armed Forces of Ukraine' was released in Moscow on Tuesday.
Selidovo residents testified that Ukrainian forces slaughtered civilians before and during their retreat.
Most of the victims were shot at point-blank range in the head or neck, often in front of their relatives and neighbors.
Entire families were found brutally murdered in their homes. Those who answered the door to Ukrainian soldiers were killed immediately.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces said: 'Open up, we mean you no harm.' Aunt Valya opened the door, and they killed the four of them," an eye-witness told the Russian investigators.
Mercenaries From France Shoot Civilians in Selidovo in DPR - Eyewitness
According to some testimonies, militants who spoke French and Georgian were among the killers.
Those who survived the Selidovo massacre said Ukrainian troops never concealed their hatred towards Russian speakers, de-humanized them and treated then with exceptional cruelty. Residents describe the Kiev regime's acts as "Nazism".
As in other settlements which the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost, retreating units methodically destroyed civilian infrastructure in Selidovo before Russian forces arrived.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova told the press conference that the tribunal's report showcased new evidence of the genocide committed by the Kiev regime.
Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik and the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova at a press conference dedicated to the report of the International Public Tribunal on the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
"The International Public Tribunal, created with the participation of representatives of civil society from 30 countries, has done a tremendous job of collecting evidence of massive human rights violations and war crimes that have no statute of limitations," Moskalkova stressed.
"There was a terrible massacre in Selidovo; when we arrived, the city was full of dead bodies of civilians; most of them were women and elderly people," said Maxim Grigoryev, the tribunal's chairman and member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Ukraine's Western backers are well aware of atrocities committed by the Kiev regime, Grigoryev charged. He accused US specialists of training the Ukrainian army in how to torture civilians as a means of controlling the population.
Ukrainian troops forcibly removed children and adult civilians from Selidovo, and those who refused to leave the city were slaughter, Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy Rodion Miroshnik said.
"Such crimes were committed not only in Selidovo: we heard similar stories in Avdeevka. Ukrainian fighters explicitly told them that they would all die," Miroshnik stressed — classing those acts as murder motivated by political and national hatred.
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USA
Trump says Zelensky not invited to inauguration.
The incoming president will be officially sworn in on January 20.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky was not invited to attend US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony next month, the incoming president told reporters on Monday.
Trump, who defeated Democratic rival Kamala Harris last month, will officially be sworn in as the 47th president of the US on January 20 at an inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, DC.
On Monday, Trump held his first formal press conference since winning the election.
Asked by journalists whether he had invited Zelensky, Trump responded, “No, I didn’t invite him.” He, however, added, “If he’d like to come, I’d like to have him.”
Trump met with Zelensky this month in Paris along with French President Emmanuel Macron for talks centered on the Ukraine crisis. Trump, who was reportedly reluctant to meet Zelensky, said afterwards that he wanted the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev to end as soon as possible.
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NBC reported later that Trump’s team has been working hard to broker a truce between Ukraine and Russia that could pave the way for peace talks. Trump has repeatedly slammed the administration of current President Joe Biden for its handling of the conflict and claimed that the hostilities never would have broken out at all with him in the White House.
According to media reports, Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the inauguration. The offer was reportedly made in early November, shortly after Trump’s election victory. However, it remains unclear whether Xi has accepted the invitation.
CBS has reported, citing sources, that China’s ambassador to the US and his spouse are expected to attend the event, as per standard practice.
Trump’s team has suggested hosting other leaders at the Capitol on January 20 in addition to Xi. While ambassadors and diplomats are typically invited, State Department records since 1874 indicate that no foreign leader has ever attended the transfer-of-power ceremony.
Among other officials invited, various media outlets have named Argentine President Javier Milei, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele.
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last week that the Kremlin did not receive an invitation, according to RBK.
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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.
USA USES TERRORISTS IN SYRIA. UKRAINE COMMITS MURDER IN MOSCOW. BRITAIN HELPS ISRAEL KILL GAZANS. THREE NATIONS WITHIN AN EVIL EMPIRE.
