RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 17.08.2024
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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.
Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents.
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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 an immediate retaliation.
A general view shows the Kursk nuclear power plant in the town of Kurchatov, Kursk region, Russia.
The Russian military will unleash a swift retaliation if Ukraine launches an attack on the Kursk nuclear power plant, located not far from the frontline following Kiev’s cross-border incursion, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has warned.
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 – or the Kursk NPP in Kurchatov. Ukraine has vehemently denied the allegation.
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.
Russian Forces Capture Important Heights Near Pokrovsk | AFU Struggle In Kursk Region.
Kiev firing Western-made missiles at civilian infrastructure – Moscow.
A US-supplied HIMARS system was likely employed in a “terrorist attack” in Russia’s Kursk Region, the Foreign Ministry has said.
The Ukrainian military used Western-made munitions to target civilian infrastructure in Russia’s Kursk Region for the first time on Friday, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow has said.
This is Kiev’s latest escalation since sending troops into what even its Western allies recognize as Russian territory on August 6. Previously, HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) attacks had only been conducted in regions which were formerly part of Ukraine.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told journalists on Friday that during the day, there were several “terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime against civilian targets on Russian territory.”
“In particular, for the first time, Kursk Region was hit by Western-made rockets, most likely from an American HIMARS,” she said.
The Ukrainian attack “completely destroyed” a bridge over the Seim River in the region’s Glushkovsky District, killing volunteers who were assisting local residents with the evacuation, the spokeswoman stressed.
Read more: Ukrainian HIMARS destroyed in Iskander strike – MOD video
"As we have said earlier, all those responsible for these inhumane acts will face severe punishment,” Zakharova warned.
The acting governor of Kursk Region, Aleksey Smirnov, confirmed on Friday that the bridge over the Seim River had been destroyed.
The Defense Ministry in Moscow said at the time that since the start of the incursion into Kursk Region, Russian forces have eliminated at least three HIMARS systems operated by Ukrainian troops.
Earlier this week, it also published a video of one of the US-made multiple rocket launchers being blown up by an Iskander ballistic missile strike in Ukraine’s Sumy Region, which borders Russia.
According to Moscow, Kiev’s losses in the fighting in Kursk Region already total 3,160 troops and several hundred units of military hardware, including 44 tanks and 43 APCs.
Kiev firing Western-made missiles at civilian infrastructure – Moscow.
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Russian missiles wipe out US Patriots in Ukraine – MOD videos.
Four US-made air defense launchers were reportedly taken out by Russian Iskanders.
(Click on link at foot of article to watch videos.)
Russian missiles have destroyed two batteries of US-made ‘Patriot’ air defense systems and a German IRIS-T in two regions of Ukraine, according to videos released by the Defense Ministry in Moscow on Friday.
The US and its allies have sent an unspecified number of air defense systems to Ukraine, following Vladimir Zelensky’s pleas to help Kiev deal with Russian airstrikes.
The first Ministry of Defense (MOD) video showed reconnaissance drone footage of two Patriot launchers and a AN/MPQ-65 radar station, in a field near Lyubimovka in Dnepropetrovsk Region. The field is then struck by cluster munitions from an Iskander-M missile.
The radar station can be seen exploding. The MOD said that both launchers were “completely destroyed” as well.
The second video was reportedly shot near Zhelobok, also in Dnepropetrovsk Region. The Ukrainian position consists of three Patriot launchers and another AN/MPQ-65 radar. One of the launchers can be seen releasing two missiles before an Iskander strike peppers the field with cluster bombs. Two of the launchers and the radar were completely destroyed, the Russian MOD said.
The third video shows a German-made IRIS-T launcher and a TRLM-4D radar vehicle, operating near the town of Sennoe in Ukraine’s Sumy Region before another Iskander-M missile arrives on their position.
All three strikes were filmed by reconnaissance drones, operating deep inside Ukraine with no apparent obstructions.
READ MORE: Ukrainian HIMARS destroyed in Iskander strike – MOD video
Developed by the US military contractor Raytheon, the ‘Patriot’ system has been advertised as one of the most effective air defenses in the West since the 1991 Gulf War, when it reportedly shot down Iraqi ballistic missiles.
According to publicly released specifications, it can engage targets at a range of up to 160km and altitudes of up to 24km. A typical Patriot battery consists of several launchers, a radar vehicle and a “power plant” truck, and is serviced by up to 90 personnel.
Russian missiles wipe out US Patriots in Ukraine – MOD videos.
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Ukrainian Military Unit Surrenders to Russian Armed Forces in the Kursk Region.
A military unit of 24 servicemen from the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of Ukraine surrendered to the Russian Armed Forces in an organized manner near the village of Komarovka in the Kursk Region, using a specially created channel on Telegram, a Russian law enforcement spokesman told Sputnik.
"Twenty-four servicemen from the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the armed forces of Ukraine surrendered to the Russian army in an organized manner near the village of Komarovka in the Kursk Direction. Before surrendering, the Ukrainian military contacted us through the FREE_SOLDIER2022 channel," he said.
Early on August 6, Ukrainian forces crossed the border into Russia and launched an offensive in the Kursk Region. Commenting on the attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine had carried out another large-scale provocation, firing indiscriminately at civilian targets. The enemy will receive a proper response in the border regions of Russia, Putin added.
📹A unit of 24 servicemen from the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered in an organized manner in the Komarovka area of the Kursk region, using a specially created Telegram channel for this purpose, a representative of the Russian law… pic.twitter.com/b6W7OwtF5k
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) August 17, 2024
The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that Ukrainian troops had lost more than 2,800 servicepeople and 41 tanks during the offensive in the Kursk Region.
Ukrainian Military Unit Surrenders to Russian Armed Forces in the Kursk Region.
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USA
US moving towards total censorship – Moscow.
A witch hunt is underway in America ahead of the presidential election, Russia’s ambassador to Washington has said.
Freedom of speech in the US is only permitted for those who express pro-American views, while dissenters are subjected to a “political inquisition,” Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, has claimed.
The diplomat was commenting on an FBI search at the home of Russian-born US political analyst and author Dimitri Simes in Virginia, on Tuesday. Simes, a critic of President Joe Biden’s administration, has been co-hosting a geopolitical talk show on Russia’s Channel 1 since 2018.
The targeting of Simes is another example of the “witch hunt” taking place in the US in the run up to the presidential election on November 5, Antonov wrote in a post on Telegram on Saturday.
"Hundreds of people are declared undesirable just because they dare to contradict the policies of the administration. They are forbidden from having their own point of view” and government agents are “breaking into homes, performing searches and seizing documents,” he stated.
According to the ambassador, the situation in the country resembles the “dark times of McCarthyism,” a campaign against suspected communists led by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
"The local ruling circles have decisively embarked on the path of total censorship. Freedom of speech in modern America is sacred only if this speech is pro-American. All dissidents are subject to political inquisition, especially when it comes to those who fight against one-sided and biased views on Russia,” he said.
Antonov accused Washington of double stands when it comes to democracy and freedom of speech. While “easily” neglecting the rights provided by the First Amendment at home, US officials, “at the same time continue to lecture the whole world on democratic values and human rights,” he wrote.
Simes is a naturalized US citizen, who immigrated from the Soviet Union in 1973. He served as an aide to President Richard Nixon and as the publisher and CEO of National Interest magazine, which advocates a realist approach to international relations and geopolitics.
At the height of Russiagate, Simes was among those investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as a suspected contact between Donald Trump and the Russian government. The report by Muller in 2019, which failed to find any evidence of collusion between Moscow and Trump’s 2016 campaign, also vindicated Simes.
READ MORE: US government ‘has declared war on me’ – Scott Ritter
FBI agents arrived at his property in Virginia a week after a search took place at the home of former US Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter in New York state. Ritter, who is now a journalist and commentator, said the US authorities appeared to be “primarily concerned” with his “relationship” with Russian media outlets – RT and Sputnik news agency.
US moving towards total censorship – Moscow .
EUROPE / UK
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AFRICA
African nation counting on Russian defense tech for anti-terror effort – official.
Moscow’s “high-quality” military equipment is “perfect” for countering Sahel’s security challenges, Mali’s air force chief told RT.
Mali is seeking greater autonomy in the defense and security sectors, the Chief of Staff of the Western African nation’s air force told RT, naming Russia as a partner that can assist the jihadism-plagued state in achieving this goal.
Brigadier General Alou Boi Diarra made the statement in an exclusive interview on Thursday, responding to a question about how Mali’s military relations with Russia differ from those it had with its previous security ally, France.
“Russia is one of the world leaders in the field of defense technologies and produces high-quality equipment that is perfectly adapted not only to the geographical and climatic conditions of Mali, but also to combat conditions,” he stated.
He hailed Moscow-Bamako relations as a “holistic” cooperation that covers all aspects and principles of equipment use and maintenance, as well as the infrastructure needed for its deployment.
“When Mali purchases weapons from Russia, Moscow also provides instructors who show our military not only how to use and maintain equipment in technical terms but also how to use it most effectively in combat conditions,” he explained.
READ MORE: Moscow hosts security talks with Sahel states
The country has been embroiled in a jihadist insurgency since 2012 that has claimed thousands of lives. A decade-long French military mission failed to quell the violence, causing it to spill over to neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger. All three former French colonies, under military rule, have severed defense ties with Paris and, to combat terrorism, formed the Alliance of Sahel States. The alliance has sought increased security cooperation with Russia to combat the jihadist insurgency.
Late last month, Tuareg rebels operating in Mali killed scores of Bamako’s soldiers and Russian Wagner Group contractors in an ambush near the Algerian border. Ukrainian officials had claimed the militants carried out the “successful” operation using information from Kiev’s military intelligence service.
The Malian military government and its ally in Niger responded by breaking off diplomatic relations with Ukraine, accusing it of supporting aggression and of international terrorism. Kiev denies the accusations, claiming that the African states had made “hasty” decisions without evidence of Ukraine’s involvement in the attack.
During his interview with RT on Thursday, the chief of the Malian Air Force also claimed that Ukraine had “openly declared its participation in these hostilities in front of the whole world.”
“Who needs other evidence than the statements by military officials who claimed responsibility for the attacks?” General Diarra asked.
According to him, the armed groups have for long been using logistical and financial support from “outside” in their attempt to destabilize Bamako and its alliance partners in Ouagadougou and Niamey.
“But now the armies of the countries are prepared to counter these threats,” the official warned. Diarra was in Moscow to attend the Army 2024 International Military-Technical Forum.
On the sidelines of the three-day event, which began on Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry met with military chiefs from Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, and the Central African Republic, and discussed potential areas of security cooperation.
(To watch videos from this article please click link below.)
African nation counting on Russian defense tech for anti-terror effort – official.
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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.
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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.
NIU YORK IS ABOUT TO FALL
The foolishly-named town adjacent to Toretsk in the soon to be Russian Donbass named Niu York will soon be liberated and no doubt quickly renamed.
Russian forces are now in a position to take the major Donbass cities of Niu York and Toretsk. With the current disposition of forces this will take place within a week to ten days from now. Ukrainian forces, lacking manpower and munition capacity are now falling back from undefendable positions around these two large conurbations. The situation is exacerbated for the Ukrainian troops fighting there due to the recent concentration of troops by the Kiev regime in its misconceived incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
The fall of Niu York and Toretsk will undoubtedly precipitate a further decline in Ukrainian army morale across the battlefront in the Donbass, and no doubt too in those now within the Kursk incursion which is rapidly turning into a trap. With the liberation of these two major cities and the opening up of further territory for the Russians with the ukrainians increasingly on the run, the way will be open for the Russian military to advance upon the last remaining outposts of the Ukrainian regime in the Donbass.
The major Ukrainian logistic hub, Pokrovsk will be next to fall after Niu York and Toretsk. This may take several weeks to achieve. Slovyansk and Kramatorsk are the largest cities remaining in Ukrainian hands in the Donbass but we could easily see these fall by November if not sooner should there be a catastrophic collapse in Ukrainian army morale. It is all to play for, for the Russian troops now, the wind is at their back with crumbling opposition before them.
With the developments above plus the certain defeat of the Ukrainian troops now within Russia’s Kursk region there can be little doubt that these events will finally see major changes within Ukraine’s western support base. They will be loath to associate themselves with a failing regime and will slowly but surely begin to withdraw their support. This will be seen in massively reduced mainstream media news coverage and a certain lack of the now familiar statements of “everlasting” support for the Kiev regime. Supplies of cash, weaponry and munitions will decline even more precipitously than the already noticeably falling tranches.
The West’s Project Ukraine is failing quite obviously now. It has been failing for a very long time now but western obfuscation of this fact via its news media peddling fantasies instead of facts. There is nothing short of direct NATO or western power intervention that can halt the precipitous fall of their Ukrainian device to weaken Russia. The last laugh will certainly be Russia’s with its growing economy (while Europe’s declines and the USA soars to unsustainable levels of national debt), its battle-hardened, much stronger army basking in the glory of a monumental victory over the modern day Nazis of Ukraine and a nation with its sovereignty and security guaranteed in perpetuity. The reputation of the Russian president will be further heightened, not only in the nations of the global majority but also all across the western world.
Niu York and Toretsk will mark the most significant milestone yet and will equal the fall of Avdeevka as a sign of things to come. With the clearance of the Ukrainian infestation from Russia’s Kursk region another nail will be hammered into the Kiev regime’s coffin. It will be only a matter of time from these events that Zelensky and his minions are clearing their desks and departing in humiliating ignominy, never to be heard of again.
There will be one last and abiding memory to be correctly proud of within Russia when this is all done and dusted. That memory will feature the city that was given a certain name (surely to be replaced in due course). The Ukrainian city presently called Niu York. The liberation of Niu York will always stand in Russian minds not only as potent symbol of Russia’s defeat of the Ukrainian Nazis, but also, and even more importantly, of the total humiliation of the world’s fastest declining and most aggressively evil superpower, the USA.
