RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 29.03.2024
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 29.03.2024
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.
THE ROAD TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION OF WORLD WAR III RUNS THROUGH HERE.
*** WHEN WILL LONG-AWAITED RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE BEGIN? ***
“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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Mastermind told terrorists to go to Kiev after attack – Russian law enforcement.
Last week’s Crocus City Hall attack was organized anonymously via social media.
Suspects in the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall have testified that their orders came from a mystery man who told them to flee to Ukraine afterwards, the Russian Investigative Committee revealed on Friday.
The Russian authorities detained four suspected perpetrators of last Friday’s attack at the concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow, which claimed 144 lives and left over 200 people hospitalized.
In their initial testimonies and subsequent interrogations, the suspects said the attacks were prepared in coordination with “a man who introduced himself to them under a pseudonym,” the Investigative Committee said in a statement. He communicated with the suspects by voice messages sent over Telegram, it added.
“On the instructions of the coordinator, after committing the crime, the terrorists drove in a car towards the Russian-Ukrainian border to subsequently cross it and arrive in Kiev to receive the promised reward,” the law enforcement agency said.
The Investigative Committee has said it is continuing to “verify the involvement of representatives of Ukrainian special services in organizing and financing the terrorist attack.”
Russian special forces intercepted the four suspected perpetrators last Saturday, en route to the Ukrainian border. They were identified as nationals of Tajikistan and initially described by investigators as “radical Islamists.”
The terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) claimed responsibility for the massacre. The US and EU have insisted that ISIS-K was the sole culprit and that Ukraine was in no way involved.
Moscow, however, remains skeptical. President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the heads of the FSB and the Investigative Committee have all claimed that multiple clues point to Kiev’s involvement. Lavrov described the West’s insistence on Ukraine’s innocence as suspicious in itself.
On Thursday, the Investigative Committee revealed that the four suspects had received “significant sums of money” from Ukraine, in the form of cryptocurrency. The funds were then used to prepare the attack on Crocus City Hall, the agency said.
Mastermind told terrorists to go to Kiev after attack – Russian law enforcement.
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Large sums of money were transferred to the Crocus City Hall attackers from Ukraine, the Russian Investigative Committee has said.
The suspects in last week’s Moscow terrorist attack were linked to Ukrainian nationalists, the Russian Investigative Committee stated on Thursday, citing preliminary findings. The perpetrators had received “significant sums of money” from Ukraine, the law enforcement agency said.
Investigators have obtained “substantiated evidence” that the suspected assailants received funding from Ukraine in the form of cryptocurrency, which was then used to prepare the terrorist attack, the statement read.
Law enforcement officers have also identified and detained another suspect who was allegedly involved in financing the attack, the Investigative Committee said, without identifying the individual.
Earlier, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, told reporters that the US, UK and Ukraine may have been behind the attack. The Ukrainians may have been preparing a “window” for them to cross back over the border, the official said. “On the other side, they were to be welcomed as heroes,” he added.
The four suspected perpetrators had previously been identified as radical Islamists, recruited through an online chat apparently operated by the Afghanistan-based offshoot of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). However, the investigators said at that time that, despite the group’s claim of responsibility for the terrorist act, another party, such as a Ukrainian intelligence agency, may have been involved in the plot.
Last Friday, a group of men armed with assault rifles stormed the Crocus City Hall music venue in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk, just before a concert by the rock band Picnic. The attack and a subsequent blaze started by the perpetrators claimed the lives of 140 people and injured some 200 others.
The assailants were apprehended hours after the attack in Russia’s Bryansk Region, which borders Ukraine.
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‘Russia is very important for protecting Palestinians’: Top Hamas official talks to RT about the conflict with Israel.
A leading member of the Palestinian organization’s politburo shares his thoughts on the planned US port in Gaza, internal conflicts, and more.
Dr Basem Naim, a leading member of Hamas’ politburo, has told RT that the war in Gaza is being fought by a joint command of Palestinian groups in the besieged coastal enclave, not only Hamas.
He also discussed Hamas-Russia relations, regional alliances and internal Palestinian politics. Dr Naim raised concerns about the US plan to build a port in Gaza, which he warned could be used by the Israelis to commit further war crimes against the Palestinian people.
Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, little has been revealed by Western media regarding the coordination between Palestinian armed factions, which represent around a dozen groups based in the besieged territory.
In addition to this, most interviews with Hamas officials focus on “gotcha questions” and the events of October 7, without delving into substance or detail. This could be down to the fact that most Western nations consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization, along with every other major Palestinian political party/movement, the only exception being the mainstream branch of the Fatah party. However, throughout the rest of the world, most of these movements, including Hamas, enjoy open relations and dialogue.
Hamas on Palestine-Russia relations
The position of Russia on the ongoing war between Gaza and Israel has been notable, with Moscow having hosted Hamas delegations. Dr Naim believes Russia can play a major role in both protecting Palestinians on the global stage and achieving accord between various intra-Palestinian factions.
“Russia is a superpower, and therefore they are very important and very crucial in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is one of the permanent states on the Security Council, they are involved in different areas of this region and, therefore, they can help in a lot of cases politically and diplomatically.
“They are very important in protecting the Palestinians generally, and resistance in particular, when it comes to, to their seat on the Security Council and having the veto right in front of the American plans to undermine the Palestinians and their resistance.
“Russia is also important when it comes to Palestinian-Palestinian relations. They enjoy good relations with all Palestinian factions and this is something that is not present in a lot of cases.
“We can also say they have the same relations with all factions and this is also very helpful in helping achieve Palestinian unity. Also, when it comes to the existence or the presence of Russia in the region, Russia is here in Syria.
“I think, therefore, even in the battle itself, they might have the capability to affect it. Russia can also help Palestinians at the military level if it is feasible. I don’t know how much they can do, but I mean it is theoretically possible. Again, I think Russia is a big central country and it’s very important to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
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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.
THE DONBASS DEATH SIEGE & CONSPIRACY OF MEDIA SILENCE
A vast, unconscionable injustice has been perpetrated in eastern Europe since 2014 in which some 15,000 souls have perished with minimal reporting on the fact by western mass media. How can this be?
It began in the early months of 2014. The American-approved authorities who took over from the democratically-elected president and government after the Maidan insurrection sent the Ukrainian army to deal with an uprising in the Donbass that rose in response to the undermining of Ukraine’s democratic system. Along with a somewhat reluctant army came the ultra-nationalist radicals who had been responsible for the deaths of some seventeen lightly-armed young policemen during the course of the Maidan riots.
On arrival in the Donbass where a largely peaceful revolt had taken place with government offices taken over the army arrived planning to lay siege to the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. There were many instances of heroism where large groups of civilians attempted to block the way of Ukrainian army tanks attempting to reason with the soldiers inside. However, steadily these armed forces prevailed and began setting up road blocks on the primary roads to the major conurbations. The army had come in force with orders that clearly demanded that it return the power of the new authorities over the area by whatever means proved necessary.
Thus it was that the conditions were set up for an inevitable conflict rather than the negotiated settlement the people of Donetsk and Lugansk sought. Their goal was autonomy within a state now taken over by a US-supported and essentially US-controlled faction who had assumed the levers of power in their land. This faction included elements stemming from the most radically nationalistic members of the extreme right, people who used the Nazi salute and whose forebears had joined Nazi battalions composed of Ukrainians seeking to eliminate Russians and Russian influence from Ukraine and further to assist in Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union.
In the Donbass the Russian-speaking majority honoured the memory of how the Soviet Red Army had liberated them from the Nazis, there were many mixed marriages of Russian-speaking Ukrainians and Russians, the nearby border with Russia was essentially open oftentimes with no border guards in attendance or checks made. In essence there was scarcely any difference in culture, heredity, tradition or lifestyle between the Ukrainians and Russians in these Ukrainian regions bordering Russia. They were where the heavy industry and mining took place that supplied a significant proportion of Ukraine’s income. The people there knew well how the most radical of those Ukrainians living in western Ukraine saw them, as ‘Moskals’, as Russians, and they knew very well what those radicals wished to do to them.
No doubt the principal American figures involved in assisting the Maidan insurrection took little, if any account of how Ukraine was in fact a nation split into two quite distinct parts, the West with its ethnic Ukrainians looking west and the Russian-speakers in the east looking eastward. The animosity felt by a cult-like following of radicals in western Ukrainians toward anything remotely Russian was perhaps discounted if considered at all. No doubt the overwhelming desire to draw Ukraine as a whole into the western orbit caused all other considerations to be relegated to a very low priority, if they were even considered at all. In line with most other US-inspired projects of the past the planning for any aftermath of the initial acts designed to establish a successful outcome would have been sketchy if present at all.
The political leadership of the USA with the Europeans in tow had long sought the entry of Ukraine into NATO. This had been formally declared at the Bucharest NATO summit of 2008 and, along with pressuring the Ukrainian leadership to grow ever closer to the EU, the fault lines ignored between the two distinct loyalties in Ukraine grew. Prior to this push by the Americans and Europeans Ukraine had been a relatively peaceful nation where the democratic process delivered elections monitored by electoral officials/inspectors where the results provided a balance of power. If you view any of the maps of distribution of parties elected in presidential and general elections prior to the events of 2013-14 you will see that both west and east Ukraine were represented clearly. The split between east and west Ukraine could not possibly be more obvious than in those images, one of which you can view at the foot of this commentary.
In any event, the Maidan insurrection took place with all its bloody months of violence. However peacefully it may have begun it soon descended to levels of arson, murder and full scale violence that would never have been tolerated in any western city. The police were attacked with Molotov Cocktails, beaten with heavy chains, clubs of all kinds, paving stones, toxic sprays and even at one point with a fork lift truck. As related above, some seventeen young policemen, armed only with a shield and baton, died. In most case they merely attempted to hold the line against further acts of ultra-violence by the mob, many of whom sported Nazi symbology on their bodies or the shields they carried. Ultimately the mob won after a false flag attack killed many of their number. The democratically-elected president and government fell. The political elites of the USA and EU had won the day and their carefully selected placemen took over.
Returning to the situation after Maidan and the response of the Russian-speakers of the east to the insurrection described briefly above, and the arrival of the Ukrainian army to deal with those seeking to protect their way of life and language, things quickly descended into a stand-off. Instead of any attempt to use the establishment of a dialogue with those who had taken power in the east the new west-installed authorities decided to use brute force. What happened next was inevitable, especially as the radical elements who had arrived with the army had an all-consuming hatred for Russians and the Russian-speaking Ukrainians of the eastern regions. Genocide and ethnic-cleansing was their goal, they had no interest in allowing a peaceful process of any kind.
After the initial, small-scale events of violence which initially took place, whether it was the radical element alone or by the hand of Ukrainian troops also, mortar shells began to rain down on the villages, towns and cities of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. These mortar shells were clearly not guided by any targeting data, they simply flew undirected and hit whatever was in their path. These consisted often of the highest structures, those such as the Soviet-era residential blocks, hospitals and schools. Shells which missed such buildings landed at random along the streets and in the town centres of urban conurbations destroying lives, homes and livelihoods at random. The resulting images were truly shocking, children, civilian men and women, the elderly, no one was spared. The horror of these attacks was truly unconscionable and occurred day after day and were especially horrific in the years 2014 and 2015. Ultimately some 15,000 died. Yet reporting in the West was minimal.
Western reports of the deaths taking place made no mention of the siege of Donetsk and Lugansk. Every report was careful to mention Russia in a negative light creating the impression that all wrong was on the side of the Russians and Russian-speakers. It did not suit the narratives of the western leadership to report the facts impartially, neither did it suit the overall western ambition to force the entirety of Ukraine into its orbit. A killing field where only one side was perpetually guilty and innocents could be slaughtered with impunity had been set up. The Ukrainian army and its neo-Nazi elements had a free hand to do whatever they wished without fear of the atrocities they were committing being reported. All was to be framed in the context of “Russian aggression” and the falsehood that “Russian invaded Ukraine”. Russians were increasingly arriving to help protect the Russian-speaking populations, that much was true, but there was no Russian aggression, no Russian invasion.
The killing of civilians on a daily and nightly basis by the Ukrainian army and those neo-Nazi radicals increasingly incorporated within it has continued since those early months of 2014 until the present day. Those being killed are viewed as subhumans by the most radical of those who have terrorised them for so long now. They make no distinction between infants, teenagers, adults or the elderly. For them all should be killed or else driven out from Ukraine and Ukraine being only for the ethnic Ukrainians. This is why mention is made of genocide. The level of hatred felt by the ultranationalist radicals is truly at a level where they would gladly eradicate all Russian-speaking Ukrainians. And the Ukrainians of the east have known this very well and are very well aware of the historical record on this, stretching all the way back to the years those of the west arrived in league with the Nazis during world war two.
For western reporters, self-censoring, knowing what was acceptable to report and what was not, a decision had to be made, keep supplying what was expected, or risk the consequences of your actions. The vast majority, employed as they were by mainstream news organisations towed the line, in fact not a single correspondent, reporter or journalist that we know of rocked the boat. If any one of their number attempted to, and no doubt found their submission rejected we do not know, but at any rate all reports published conformed to the selfsame line, it was all the fault of the Russians. This is how the conflict in eastern Ukraine was reported and it is how events in Ukraine are reported now. Western national interests, to draw Ukraine into the western orbit governs all reporting across the western world and without exception.
Russia has many goals for its special military operation including the denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine along with ensuring Ukraine never joins NATO and thus presenting an ever increasing danger on its doorstep. But a primary goal has been from the start and all through the Minsk process seeking a peaceful resolution to the situation in the Donbass, has been to shelter the Russian-speaking majority in the Donbass from harm and provide them with a guarantee of future security within which to maintain their traditional way of life and language. These goals are being achieved, slowly in some eyes but surely and current the primary achievements are in the areas where the shelling of the civilian population of Donetsk City has been most prevalent. These areas are now being cleared of those who have been causing the misery of Russian-speaking civilians for so long now, misery that was cynically hidden from western view by its entire mainstream media.
