RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 02.06.2023
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.
*** THE BLOODIEST PHASE OF UKRAINE WAR IS IMMINENT ***
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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 Prepares Capture Marinika, UK Wallace Admit West Arsenal Exhausted: Orban: Ukr Offensive Fail.
THE DURAN
Putin signals, leadership change in Kiev.
THE NEW ATLAS
New Atlas LIVE: Mike Jones: Living in Russia and Life Amid the Special Military Operation.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - SCOTT RITTER
Is the Biden Team Delusional about Ukraine War?
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Elensky confronts Vucic. Ukraine protects Moldova. Biden falls. Lukashenko, Maidan 2014 mistake. U/1
DUE DISSIDENCE
Max Blumenthal TROLLS Woke Warmongers in EPIC Fashion.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
IS RUSSIA PRE-EMPTING THE UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE?
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - ALASTAIR CROOKE
How Europe sees the Ukraine War Now - Alastair Crooke fmr Brit Ambassador.
LEVAN GUDADZE
No Swiss Leopard-1 MBT's for Ukraine, Orban vs Western Elite, AI against Humans, Russian export...
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
A trap that the Russians set for the Ukrainians.
SCOTT RITTER
The Fall of the Ukrainian Military: A Timeline.
Talks Ukraine/Russia Updates!
GLENN GREENWALD
Drone Strikes on Moscow Signal Dangerous New Phase of Ukraine War.
REDACTED
Putin will NEVER let this happen, and NATO knows it.
EMIL COLMAN
Azov Battalion Soldier sentenced to life in prison for killing civilians.
This is ridiculous. Zelensky meets Kosovo's President. Do you understand how irrational this is?
We used to ridicule people like US Defense Secretary Austin. His low intelligence is dangerous.
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SYRIANA ANALYSIS
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HINDUSTAN TIMES
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JACKSON HINKLE
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Pro-Ukraine HACK Destroyed In 3 MINUTE Debate.
ANTI WAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
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BORZZIKMAN
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TARA READE
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GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
Debt ceiling hypocrisy: US boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor.
FIRSTPOST
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BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
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AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
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RICHARD MEDHURST
Iran Afghanistan Clashes, BRICS, Ukraine, and More! Special Guest Prof. Marandi.
LINE FLUX
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STEPHEN GARDNER - GERALD CELENTE
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 2nd June 2023:
Russia should have launched Ukraine operation in 2014 – Lukashenko.
Moscow and Minsk persisted with doomed diplomatic efforts for too long, the Belarusian president believes.
The conflict in Ukraine started years ago and the “only mistake” that Russia and Belarus made was not resolving the issue sooner, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday.
Speaking at a meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) security chiefs, Lukashenko stated that the Ukraine conflict began even before the 2014 Maidan coup in Kiev, which ousted the country’s democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovich.
“I absolutely agree with President [Vladimir] Putin when he says that we did not start this war. It didn’t even start in 2014. It started well before 2014. We saw everything that happened here: the ‘brown’ coup that took place, and what Ukraine has been led into,” Lukashenko declared.
Hostilities were bound to break out sooner or later, the Belarusian leader claimed, adding that even if Moscow had not launched its military operation a year ago, it would have been inevitable anyway – but on even worse terms for Russia and Belarus.
The “only mistake” made by the two countries was continuing their efforts to resolve the conflict through diplomacy, rather than launching military action sooner, Lukashenko insisted.
Everything was leading up to this. Probably the only mistake we made was that we did not resolve this issue in 2014-2015, when Ukraine had neither an army nor resolve.
READ MORE: Kremlin sees only military solution to Ukraine conflict
According to Lukashenko, current Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky – as well as his predecessors Pyotr Poroshenko and Yanukovich – effectively did nothing to secure a “peaceful existence” for the country’s citizens. They “didn’t want war” but were apparently being pushed into it, Lukashenko alleged, adding that Kiev’s Western backers have openly admitted to using the drawn-out diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis merely as a stopgap to arm and train Ukraine’s military.
“They frankly admitted that they did everything to prepare Ukraine for a war with Russia,” Lukashenko claimed, referring to remarks by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and ex-French President Francois Hollande. Both figures have said that the Minsk agreements, signed in 2014 and 2015 as a purported roadmap for peace in the formerly Ukrainian Donbass, were a means to buy time to build up Ukrainian forces.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Donbass Zugzwang | Belgorod Trap. Russian Advances. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.06.02
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NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Fierce Battles for Marinka | Full Frontline Report.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
RUSSIA PUSH SOUTH OF MASYUTIVKA CAPTURING MORE FOREST; Fighting towards Dvorichna - Kupyansk Front.
RUSSIA CAPTURED 70-80% OF MARINKA; fighting on both North & South of town - Donetsk Front.
UKRAINE CONTINUES KLISHCHIIVKA OFFENSIVE; contradict Land Force Cmdr Syrskyi claims - Bakhmut Front.
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DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: Russian PUSH Towards Kupyansk.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Multiple Russian advances on the Front [2 June 2023].
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
Ukraine Russian War, Map and Combat Footage for June 1, 2023 Mission Failed for Ukrainian DRG.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
Russia Is Having Good Advance In North & Multiple Advance In Other Areas.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
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
New Phase Begins | Full Update Week 22.
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.
WE ARE APPROACHING THE END GAME IN THE DONBASS AND A LIKELY BLOODBATH
The final push by Russian forces to take and then permanently hold all that remains of the entire Donbass region is likely to begin within the next few months. After the taking of Bakhmut there has been something of a lull while the Russian troops rest and prepare. This does not mean that all sectors of the Russian military have been idle, the softening up of the Ukrainian lines has gone on apace through artillery fire and fire from the air.
Ukraine in turn has not been idle either and has been performing an enforced mobilisation to build its forces to the maximum extent while seeking additional weaponry and ammunition. Many of the Ukrainian army is now only partially trained, some for only a week or two and quite possibly some may have only been handed a gun and told the rudimentary procedures for loading and firing it. It is inevitable that these, if caught in positions where they cannot be rotated out they are likely to drop their weapons and either surrender or flee.
The coming battle will without doubt be fierce and the losses on both sides are likely to be considerable. The long-promised offensive by Ukraine which was supposed to take place in Spring looks likely in the next few weeks. Russia is currently moving forward more aggressively on the ground and attempting through an air campaign to eliminate Ukraine’s fuel dumps and arms depots. This war is about to enter what is likely to be its bloodiest and even perhaps almost face to face stage where no quarter will be given on either side.
Without doubt the Ukraine authorities will have transferred as many heavy weapons including their HIMAR rocket launchers and Leopard tanks into position somewhere close to the front line where Russia is launching sporadic attacks. The number of troops will certainly number many tens of thousands.
This may well be the final large scale battle for the Donbass. It is inconceivable that the remaining cities of Slavjansk and Kramatorsk will stand for long if the coming Ukrainian offensive fails. On the other hand, if the Ukrainians somehow manage to withstand the assault by some manner of means, either by sheer force of numbers, local knowledge or through the weaponry supplied by the West then Russia will have been delivered a major setback.
If the first scenario above occurs then the rest of the Donbass must surely be in danger of falling to Russia within a period of a few months thereafter. A pause is more than likely immediately after the defeat of the Ukrainian offensive however while mopping up operations are conducted and the troops involved will be rested after this undoubtedly gruelling fight to prepare for the final push to take Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
If scenario two transpires and Ukrainian forces beat back the Russian offensive and their own offensive succeeds then some tough decisions will then have to be made concerning Russia perhaps finally deciding on another mobilisation from its reserve forces. In addition, the possibility of targeting Ukraine’s transport system, electricity (and possible gas) supply networks along with the perhaps more crucial targets of Ukraine/NATO command and control centres.
The following phase of conflict in Ukraine appears certain to be extremely bloody. The Ukrainian regime and those standing behind them in the West appear dead set on continuing to fight on no matter how many casualties occur. The Russians, who have a military history where negotiations take place while conflict rages, have expressed an interest in resolving the issues involved since 2014 that way and continue to seek conflict resolution to this day. However, there is no reciprocal response from the other side even though such an arrangement did exist in the early days of the conflict.
Neither side can afford to lose. And of course these sides are not simply one on one. Alongside the Ukrainians you have the entire collective west. The leaders of the West cannot afford to lose out to Russia. But equally the Russians cannot afford to lose out either, driving NATO from its doorstep and ending the ultra-nationalist Nazi-mentality so affecting a very sizeable minority in western Ukraine and leaving the citizens of the Donbass to their collective mercy is absolutely not an option. This is a fight to the death therefore, to the absolute defeat of one side or the other with (unless attendance at negotiations are agreed to by the Ukrainians) no way out but an orgy of death and destruction right to the bitter end.