RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 23.03.2024
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.
*** WHAT WILL RUSSIA’S RESPONSE BE TO TERROR ATTACK IN MOSCOW? ***
“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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Mass shooting in Moscow mall: LIVE UPDATES
A large mall in Moscow was the scene of a mass shooting and has been set on fire with many casualties reported.
Crocus City, a large mall and music venue just northwest of the Russian capital, came under attack by unknown assailants late on Friday.
Several individuals armed with assault rifles attacked visitors, shooting them on sight at point-blank range. The attackers also targeted a concert hall at the mall, setting it on fire and triggering a major blaze in the whole building.
The Russian authorities are investigating the incident as a terrorist attack. No party immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, while the gunmen did not make any statements or attempt to take hostages, apparently just seeking to kill as many as possible.
According to preliminary estimates by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), at least 40 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in the attack.
22 March 2024
21:33 GMT
Some 37 people injured in the attack have been hospitalized, the Health Ministry of Moscow Region has said.
21:08 GMT
A member of the band Piknik, which was scheduled to perform on Friday evening, has been missing after the attack, the band’s director has told RIA Novosti.
20:46 GMT
Multiple firefighting helicopters have been deployed to the scene, footage released by the Russian Emergencies Ministry shows. The spread of fire has not been stopped yet.
20:21 GMT
Russia’s National Guard said it is now searching for the attackers, as well as evacuating survivors from the mall.
19:55 GMT
Law enforcement officers with detection dogs were spotted inspecting a suspicious white van bearing old Ukraine-issued license plates parked near the mall.
19:17 GMT
At least 40 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in the attack, Russia’s domestic security service, the FSB, has said, citing a preliminary assessment of the incident.
19:00 GMT
The fire is reportedly spreading rapidly across the venue, with a towering column of black smoke and open flames seen above the building. At least one firefighting helicopter has been deployed to the scene to help put out the blaze.
18:50 GMT
Russia’s closest ally, Belarus, has strongly condemned the attack, with the country’s Foreign Ministry stating that “nothing” could have justified it.
18:49 GMT
The White House has condemned the attack on the mall, describing it as a “terrible” incident. “The images are just horrible and just hard to watch,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. The spokesman also insisted the US possessed no intelligence on the attack, nor does it believe it is somehow linked to Ukraine.
18:35 GMT
A new explosion has been reported from the burning mall. An RT correspondent from the scene, however, has not corroborated such claims.
Mass shooting in Moscow mall: LIVE UPDATES.
Moscow cancels all mass events after shooting
Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has banned gatherings in the Russian capital after a high-profile gun attack in the nearby region.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has canceled all large-scale events in the Russian capital after a shooting at Crocus City Hall, one of the biggest music venues just outside of the city.
A group of gunmen was reportedly responsible for the spree of violence, after which a major fire started at the premises.
Sobyanin called the incident a terrible tragedy and asked Muscovites to understand his decision to ban all gatherings for the weekend.
”I extend my condolences to the families of those who were killed. I have ordered all necessary assistance to those affected,” he wrote on social media.
Few details about the shooting have been officially confirmed so far, except that it has resulted in multiple deaths. Footage circulating online indicates the attackers were armed with automatic weapons and dressed in tactical gear.
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The venue is located in Krasnogorsk, Moscow’s satellite city located on the capital’s western outskirts. It is part of Moscow Region, adjacent to but not part of the capital.
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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.
BBC, CNN & THOSE LIKE THEM: STATE MOUTHPIECES, STENOGRAPHERS & PROPAGANDISTS
Most people still rely on mainstream news sources regarding issues of a geopolitical nature, this despite recent times where it became clear the information consumed strayed very far from actuality.
I wonder if those in the higher echelons of the BBC, CNN and others have an inkling, through the comments to their online videos and articles, of how they are ruining any remaining reputation for impartiality they retain regarding news of a geopolitical nature?
Ever more people are looking deeper into the true genesis of the conflict in Ukraine and see precisely and very clearly that the BBC, CNN and their ilk are merely a mouthpiece for western state officialdom.
The BBC make claim after claim to be impartial. This claim is very obviously wrong on its face when its coverage is compared to reality in cases where western state interests are concerned. You need only look at the coverage of events in Ukraine from 2014 onward to see this at its most starkly obvious.
CNN don’t rise to the level of blatant deception on this score. No claim is made by them to be impartial and their coverage can be said to be somewhat more straightforwardly biased.
Other mainstream news outlets across the West are a mix of the two approaches by those above:
1. Claimed impartiality
or
2. An absence of claims of impartiality while inferring truth-telling (where in most cases where the content consists of opinion-spreading; opinions reflecting western state-promulgated narratives).
In effect, all western mainstream broadcasters claiming to deliver news services, either maintain cultural blindness, actively censor or self-censor to produce a service that cannot help but semi-deceive rather than enlighten. And this is putting things at their mildest.
At worst we see an active intent to deceive, to mould the mind of every listener, reader or viewer, into the required mentality seen as most useful to whatever western state they may live in.
As Chomsky has pointed out, those who have obtained employment at the highest levels of these mainstream news/media organisations are there solely because they survived the filtering process to weed out those who would report in a different way. Those who pass the test arrive within an elite environment where connections to other elite environments such as those of the political sphere are encouraged, nurtured and are indeed inevitable. Thus we receive all the “news” that fits. The mould that this “news” fits within can then be clearly seen to have a very certain inevitability to it.
“News” that emerges from environments where state pressure, or the pressure of required income from advertising, cannot help but be tainted by numerous pressures to conform to certain requirements. It will ALWAYS be tainted due to this and at times where ‘national interests’ of western nations are at stake the “news” received from this source becomes almost totally one-sided in favour of those western states who are most directly involved and very certainly and universally against those who western states are opposing.
Finding untainted news that closely reflects reality can only be achieved after a diligent, long-term search across non-mainstream sources. These sources may be in book form or via the internet after once again, careful and diligent research into who may be a trusted reporter of actuality rather than a source paid to spread misinformation. The search involved requires to be thorough, matching statements made to the historical record until, over time, a level of trust for certain individuals and groups is built. Only in this way can we feel we are being accurately informed. Not that gullibility or prejudice based on our own personal convictions should generate particular enthusiasm in this context. Maintaining a keen eye for actuality rather than wishful-thinking modes of operation is vital. In any event, the mainstream “news” environment ought to be avoided at all costs and in all cases as it operates essentially and extremely insidiously as an arm of the state in times of war.