RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 13.04.2023
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.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
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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 Repels Counterattack, Kiev Postpones Offensive, US Borrows Shells, Brazil China Ditch USD.
Prigozhin MoD Resolve Dispute, Russia Captures Marinka Factory Area; Putin: Russian Economy Surging.
THE DURAN
Bild and Bakhmut, 'what they are fighting for'.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Russian fuel for Ukraine. Milley prepares Russia surrender. Hungary, Cyprus sanctions escalator. U/1
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Leaked Docs - What's the Truth?
GEORGE GALLOWAY - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
INTERVIEW: Our man from the CIA reveals turmoil in the Company.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
Ukrainian Air Defenses Dwindling, West Scours World for Arms on Eve of "Spring Offensive".
THE DURAN
Collective west hyperfocused on ruble, as Russian economy wins sanctions war.
China charms Emperor Macron.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Macron heckled at The Hague. Summer offensive. Trudeau meets Ukraine PM. Canada pipeline hack. U/1
iEARLGREY
EC Rules Russian Assets MUST BE RETURNED. Russia Investigates PoW Video.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Russia claims control of 3 urban quarters new Bakhmut as Ukraine downplays Pentagon war files leak.
SCOTT RITTER
Ep. 60: Ask the Inspector.
The Russian armed forces hit the firing positions of the Ukrainian military with thermite shells.
GONZALO LIRA'S ROUNDTABLE
The Roundtable #53: Glenn Diesen & Tarik Cyril Amar.
CGTN Europe
U.S. Intel Leak: Files show foreign special forces operating in Ukraine.
RICHARD MEDHURST
BREAKING: Syrian FM in Saudi Arabia, Yemen Peacetalks, Pentagon Leaks: Richard Medhurst LIVE.
THE CONVO COUCH
Pentagon Leak, Real or Controlled, Lula Arrives in China, Derrick Broze Joins Mexico/US GMO+
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Sy Hersh: CIA Knows Zelensky Is Skimming US Aid, US Expects No Ukraine Peace Talks in 2023, and More.
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
Leaked CLASSIFIED Docs Confirm US Forces INSIDE Ukraine.
STEPHEN GARDNER - TONY SHAFFER
Russia HITS Ukraine With DESTRUCTIVE FORCE.
GERALD CELENTE - JUDGE NAPOLITANO
THE AMERICAN RHYTHM: WAR DRUMS AND LIES.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
BIDEN'S CRUEL POLICY. Pentagon Leaked documents reveal a dark agenda of the Biden administration.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Battle Of Annihilation.
PARROT TV
FOREIGN POLICY REVIEWS: THE LEAKED DOCUMENTS AND THEIR HIDDEN LIES.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
'Ukraine suffered 131,000 casualties': U.S. reveals Kyiv's war losses | Russia bombs Kherson.
Russia wipes out major Ukrainian ammunition centre in Zaporizhzhia; Kyiv loses hundreds of weapons.
Russia blows up NATO-supplied Howitzer in Ukraine | Putin's men struck with Lancet drone | Watch:
Putin to oust Zelensky as President? Pentagon secret files fear 'regime change' in Ukraine.
Putin embarrasses Biden; US 'Smart Bombs' fail in Ukraine due to Russian jamming | Details:
Biden blamed for 'disastrous situation' in Afghanistan; Russia, China want sanctions lifted.
Putin outsmarts western sanctions | Russian economy shines as inflation dips below 4%.
Macron's second big attack on US; 'Not your vassal, we've a right to think for ourselves'.
Saudi shocks Biden again; Re-embraces Syria's Assad regime after decade-long hostilities.
Russian assault forces Ukrainian troops to hide in trenches in Bakhmut | 'Wagner doesn't...'
Putin's Men 'control' all administrative buildings in Bakhmut; 'Furious' fighting rages | Watch:
Russian troops score another victory in Ukraine; Storm and seize Ukrainian Army stronghold | Watch:
Pro-Russia wave in Moldova; Locals up in arms against joining NATO | Govt seeks West's help.
'Get ready for actual war': Xi Jinping tells Chinese PLA amid tensions with Taiwan, U.S.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Which One Would You Prefer: Nuclear War or Diplomacy?
BORZZIKMAN
NATO asks for U.S. help! Russian Hackers Destroyed more than 50% of NATO's Online Infrastructure!
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Macron: France favours "status quo" on Taiwan, position unchanged.
TECH REVOLUTION
THE END! Europe JUST BACKED OFF From The U.S | SHOCKS Everyone By Joining Forces With China.
SMART SILVER STACKER
BRICS Currency Threatens US Dollar (Why I'm Stacking Gold & Silver).
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: QUESTIONS ANSWERED on WORLD ORDER.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 13th April 2023:
Zelensky and team stole at least $400 million of US aid – Seymour Hersh.
Corruption in Ukraine may be on par with what was seen in Afghanistan, the investigative journalist claimed.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his senior officials are skimming American taxpayer dollars by the hundreds of millions, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed on Wednesday. The alleged grift even includes schemes involving trade with Russia itself.
Zelensky and his entourage embezzled at least $400 million from US funds meant for diesel procurement last year, Hersh claimed in a new article on Substack, citing a CIA estimate.
Kiev has allegedly been buying diesel fuel, which is essential for the war effort, from Russia itself – and in the process skimming large sums of US funds earmarked for diesel payments.
Reports had earlier surfaced about how oil products originating in Russia had made their way to Ukraine through Bulgaria and Latvia. The scheme involving the Baltic state, which was reported in detail by the Latvian television program Neka Personiga, may have violated the EU’s anti-Russian sanctions.
An expert cited by Hersh compared the level of corruption in Ukrainian procurement to what was seen in Afghanistan, when a US-backed government was in charge in Kabul. According to his sources, ministries in Kiev compete to set up front firms in order to export weapons and ammunition, with the relevant officials profiting from kickbacks. The US government, meanwhile, has stated that it has seen no evidence of Western-supplied weapons in Ukraine being diverted elsewhere.
Hersh cited an intelligence source who referred to the January meeting between Zelensky and CIA Director William Burns. The US official allegedly presented a list of 35 generals and ministers known to the CIA to be corrupt. Senior Ukrainian officials also complained that Zelensky “was taking a larger share of the skim money than was going to the generals,” the source explained, comparing the meeting to a scene from a 1950s mob movie.
Hersh contends that the Ukrainian leader’s response was to fire staff from the Cabinet of Ministers, regional administrations, and other parts of the Ukrainian government. Kiev claimed the move was part of its anti-corruption strategy. Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov, who became mired in a scandal over purchases of overpriced food for troops, was widely expected to be sacked at the time, but he survived the purge.
READ MORE: EU state makes new energy deal with Russia
Hersh’s sources blamed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan for the ongoing crisis in the US government, which allegedly suffers from discord between the White House and intelligence community. The two top foreign policy officials have shown “strident ideology and lack of political skill” over the Ukraine conflict, according to the sources.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Poland-Ukraine Union. Wagner is Unstoppable. Second Port. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.13
Optimization of Wagner's army. General mobilization. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.13
Wagner squeezes pincers in Bakhmut. Guided bombs checkmate. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.12
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Russian Forces Collapse Bakhmut Northern Defense Line.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE
Ukraine: military situation Apr 11-12, 2023.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
Who Controls What? Foggiest Day In Bakhmut | Ukrainian Offensive Delayed? Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russians Adapt to new weapons.
RYBAR UPDATE
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: April 12, 2023.
M MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine: Day 413 [ 13 April ] Ukranian Counteroffensive Near Railway Station.
ATP GEOPOLITICS UPDATE
Ukraine War Upd. EXTRA (20230413): Crimea Hist & Geog #4, Russian Options, Crimea, & Crimea.
FREE RUSSIA CHANNEL UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Russian Forces Advance South Of Rose Alley | Bakhmut Quick Update | 13/04/23.
Quick Update | Ukrainian Bakhmut Counterattack 13/04/23
Wagner Breaksthrough Railway Line After Capturing Both Train Stations | Bakhmut Update 12/04/23
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
WHAT IN A WIDER CONTEXT IS AT STAKE IN THE UKRAINE WAR?
I will presume for the purposes of this commentary that all readers are aware of the fundamental immediate goals and ambitions, concerns and sought for outcomes regarding the present conflict in Ukraine.
But what are the larger geopolitical ramifications involved, if any?
As I see it, this war has an enormous importance for the geopolitical makeup of our planet for all the time left to us as a species. This may appear a big claim, perhaps a hyperbolic claim that makes too much of the present situation. I will attempt to explain why I believe this is not the case.
As I have referenced before, I see much if not all of the geopolitical interventions and most of the western foreign policy narratives, talking points and official statements as intimately linked to decisions made in the hours immediately after 9/11.
It follows then that I see the Ukraine situation, stretching all the way back to 2014 and in fact years before, as very much part of the processes having their genesis in 9/11.
The primary and I would argue clear goal set after 9/11 was to establish supreme dominance by the United States over the world to ensure no such event could ever come to pass again. This meant nullifying and wherever possible replacing all individuals and entities that could add to the possibility of recurrence.
I feel the above statement is incontrovertible in fact and a quite natural response by the elites of the most powerful and influential nation on the planet. The great problem for the rest of the world however, lies in the actions needed by those elites to achieve that goal. To achieve it, and I am quite sure from statements made and actions followed, that absolutely no ethical, moral or any other barrier was to be placed that could hinder the speedy achievement of that goal. International law and normal codes of conduct of all kinds were not to be a barrier. Nothing and no one was to be a barrier and without exception. All means necessary was to be the modus operandi.
It is well known what followed soon after 9/11. A program of regime change operations across the Middle East, with varying tactics deployed. Full on attack and invasion in the case of Afghanistan and Iraq. NATO in Libya and proxy combatants in Syria, sanctions and other financial instruments of war as a constant meanwhile. All overt and covert attacks were also complemented by an enormous effort regarding enhanced psychological operations which incorporated a now compliant mass media. This latter directed mainly at western populations themselves, the purported benefactors of the full spectrum dominance project initiated after 9/11.
China is by far the main target for the USA and its allies but too big a meal to take on so early. The obvious way this was to be done was to tackle the low-hanging fruit first. As we have seen that has not gone particularly well… though the sub-goal of substantially weakening U.S. “enemies” was achieved in all cases to one degree or another. None of those attacked will present the kind of problem the U.S. elites have sworn to defend themselves against in perpetuity. However, perpetuity is a rather long time frame to work to and without doubt those nations that did not fully succumb to regime change will be returned to time and again to maintain their weak position.
So we come to Russia, a larger stepping stone than the previous targets, and one leading ultimately to the number one target, China. Russia had to be relieved of its current president and then have its system of governance modified. Modified to suit the goals set post-9/11 of course, its transformation into a state compliant to U.S. needs, demands and implicit instruction as all other ‘liberal democracies’ were.
So, along comes Vladimir Putin to the Munich Security Conference in 2007 and a little abashedly states that Russia is not onboard with the project that the USA plus its allies become global hegemon on a unipolar planet.
How do you think that went down in the context of the absolutely must-have goal the U.S. political and military elites had set for themselves after 9/11. Like a lead balloon. Precisely.
NATO, used as the spearhead against Russia to soften it up and over time create fractures in its society (along with a plethora of other methods operating concurrently) was to bring about the undoing of the Russian state to the degree that it could be shaken apart. Chaos-creation was the name of the game, at least confusion and if possible greater and greater degrees of anarchy and opposition.
I believe this is all rather obvious. America’s playbook is not all that long really and hiding the various paragraphs within it doesn’t take a degree in rocket science or a deep knowledge of Einstein’s theory of relativity to understand them I’d say. They are a bit too blatant to miss.
The CIA and all those who conjoin into its various elements such as the national Endowment for Democracy (NED) and a great many others over a vast array and network of activists, embassy chiefs, “journalists” and myriad functionaries across all allied states, wield enormous power and influence and are indeed THE true blade of power and influence of the western world.
So it was that the blade turned primarily toward Russia. Putin must go and Russian must be taught a lesson… the lesson being that you can’t deny the power of ‘The Boss’, the great arbiter of good and evil, the world’s exceptional cop… especially not now when we need you to TOTALLY comply to our needs due to what happened to us on 9/11.
Russia was to be harried on as many issues as possible. China was to get its initial share also but that was the really big project for when Russia was dealt with. Putin and Russia had to be seen in the frame of being responsible for just about every negative circumstance that could possibly be thought of. Putin was first for the treatment with long years after his Munich address in 2007 being filled with articles portraying him as some kind of reincarnation of Hitler.
After many years of Putin-bashing, which still continued of course, this was expanded to Russia in general, or to be precise to its current hierarchy. They were to get the same treatment as devils beyond the pale, irretrievably lost to the precepts of ethical behaviour, baby-killing, schoolkid injuring, hospital patient targeting fiends. And this time and time again in a hypnotic repetition to embed the required conditioning in as many minds as possible across the western world.
Then the final card to be played when other softening up efforts to create the requisite unrest in Russia largely failed to be effective… Ukraine. NATO and Ukraine. NATO, Ukraine and the Russian-speaking majority in the Donbass. Russia was to be pushed past its limits of endurance and then be bled dry, weakened beyond repair… and then find itself moving ever closer to where the U.S. elites and their allies wanted it.
And this is what is at stake as I see it in Ukraine. This I am convinced is the broader picture, the deeper context. But… there is one last and in my view preeminent factor at stake:
The potential loss of a multipolar world replaced by an ever-suspicious unipolar entity that can never quite bring itself to trust any of us and monitors each of us to a depth, even with all the big data gathering now, has never been seen before. 24/7 in geosynchronous orbit the spies in the sky will feed on what we say and do and report immediately if any of it is suspicious and we will be flagged appropriately in consequence. One power dominating with servants helping do its bidding. A world controlled by a single entity and its proxies. No resistance of any kind brooked. No China, Russia or any other fly in the US’ elite ointment. Obedience… or else. A virtual prison planet in fact.
