RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 12.09.2024
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.
*** ALL GOING RUSSIA’S WAY - WEST INCREASINGLY DESPERATE ***
“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.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
SHAMELESS WESTERN MEDIA IGNORED THIS:
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Putin Warns Against Attacks on Russia.
NATO Risks Hot War With Russia as Biden Mulls Stepping on Ukraine Long-Range Missile Tripwire.
The Biden administration is mulling formally greenlighting Ukraine's use of its NATO-gifted long-range strike systems to attack targets deep inside Russia. The scenario is fraught with risks, not least of which is turning the Russia-NATO proxy conflict into a hot war that drags the US in, says former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated Wednesday that there was a “high degree of probability” that a decision approving the use of US long-range strike systems by Ukraine has already been taken, and that the Biden administration is simply trying to “formalize” the measure using an information campaign through the media.
That was Moscow’s reaction to President Biden’s comments earlier in the week that Washington was in the process of ‘working out’ whether to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of its US-made long-range weapons to attack targets deep inside Russia.
Long-range US weapons already delivered to Kiev (or reportedly under deliberation) include:
ATACMS: The US ‘Army TACtical Missile System’, which has a range of up to 300 km, and can be fired by tracked M270 and wheeled M142 HIMARS self-propelled multiple launch rocket systems, which have been delivered to Kiev in large numbers. Russia has found the systems’ weak spots, destroying scores of launchers and incoming fired rockets. Nevertheless, the launchers and their payload (a single 214 kg warhead or cluster bomblets) remain dangerous due to their shoot-and-scoot ability. The Pentagon began the delivery of ATACMS to Kiev last October, but apparently not in numbers Volodymyr Zelensky would prefer. Last week, Zelensky complained about a “shortage of missiles and cooperation” with NATO countries.
JDAM-ER: The ‘Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range’ is a guidance and wing kit converting ‘dumb’ munitions weighing between 230-910 kg into guided smart munitions and delivering them to targets over 70 km away. The weapons are air-launched, meaning Ukrainian aircraft must stay far enough away to avoid dense Russian air defenses while firing them.
ADM-160 MALD: The ‘Miniature Air-Launched Decoy’ is a decoy missile designed to distract air defenses while real threats make their way toward their targets. Thanks to their lack of warhead, these missiles can fly up to 930 km. Deployable aboard a broad array of American aircraft and drones, Ukraine probably fires these weapons from its dwindling fleet of Soviet-era MiG-29 jets.
AGM-88 HARM: The ‘High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile’ is an air-to-ground missile with passive, GPS and millimeter-wave active radar homing, has a range of between 25 and 300 km, depending on variant, and a 68 kg warhead. Adding to the threat is the missile’s flight speed – up to Mach 2.9. The US began deploying these weapons to Kiev in 2022, and, in addition to modifications to allow Ukraine’s jets to fire them, reportedly provided their client with intelligence to enable attacks against Russian radar systems.
Not yet known to have been delivered but widely discussed in recent days is the AGM-158 JASSM (‘Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile’) – a long-range cruise missile with a 450 kg penetrator warhead that can hit targets up to 925 km away (or 370 km in the case of standard range variants). These missiles can be fired from Ukraine’s recently arrived F-16 jets.
Russian officials have warned repeatedly of the consequences of providing long-range missiles to Ukraine to attack Russia. President Putin warned last year that “the more long-range Western systems arrive in Ukraine, the further we will be forced to push the threat away from our borders” via a security “buffer zone.” In June, Putin warned that Moscow might respond in kind to NATO’s actions, supplying Russian long-range weapons to regions of the world that send missiles to Ukraine to attack Russia.
Long-Range Missile Threat: Quickest Way to NATO-Russia Hot War
“Biden has shifted every single position that he said was a red line, so I don't see why he's not going to violate this one as well,” retired CIA analyst and counterterrorism expert-turned whistleblower Larry Johnson told Sputnik, commenting on Washington's threats to lift its missile restrictions.
The Biden administration “can’t afford a defeat” in Ukraine before the November vote, and thinks that if it takes the “incredibly dangerous and foolish” step of just okaying the missiles’ delivery and use, that will somehow help Ukraine, Johnson believes.
“I appreciate President Putin's desire to show restraint and keep this as a special military operation. But the West is at war with Russia, and I don't think people are getting their brains around that. We keep dancing around the edges pretending that this is not going to happen. It's going to happen. And it's not going to change the military situation as far as what Ukraine is facing. Ukraine is facing defeat. They will be defeated. But it gets more to the point that the West, instead of seeking a peaceful way out and talking to Russia, is preferring confrontation,” Johnson warned.
Another question is whether Ukraine even has the relevant long-range missiles left, and whether the US is in a state to supply them, according to the observer.
“Because if the United States moves to supply a missile that's frankly bigger than the ATACMS or if they offer up an ATACMS or a JASSM that has an extended range capability, then I think it's going to raise the real possibility that the logistics hubs that are outside of Ukraine that are being used to provide these missiles could become targets. Which then is this is going to expand the war,” Johnson warned.
In that sense, while the Biden administration may believe the move to free Kiev's hand on the use of NATO missiles to attack the Russian interior could stave off the Zelensky regime's defeat, "it may actually have the opposite effect of causing this war to expand and expand in a way that will get the United States involved. And then we're into some very new and dangerous territory," Johnson summed up.
NATO Risks Hot War With Russia as Biden Mulls Stepping on Ukraine Long-Range Missile Tripwire.
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RACHEL BLEVINS - MARK SLEBODA: Biden Admin Sets Stage to Allow Kiev to Use Long-Range Missiles Inside Russia.
Dr. GILBERT DOCTOROW: Russian Politics and the Ukraine War.
AARON MATÉ: Victoria Nuland War Criminal.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER: SCOTT RITTER: PUTIN READIES NATO WAR AS UKRAINE COLLAPSES, HEZBOLLAH AND IRAN STUN ISRAEL.
GARLAND NIXON - SCOTT RITTER: WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER EPISODE 73 - NEOCONS PUSHING THE ENVELOPE/RUSSIA CHINA ALLIANCE.
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CHAS FREEMAN: Ukraine Getting More Delusional?
EMIL COSMAN: Rus+China "combine" against US. Ukr allowed to strike Rus with Storm Shadow. US "evidence", Iraq 102.
DANIEL DAVIS: U.S. Ending Ukraine Long Range Weapons Ban.
LEVAN GUDADZE: NATO vs Russia - WW3. EU Deindustrialization. Germany - Refugees. Religion & AI.
SERGEI SHOIGU: The enemy is losing 2,000 killed and wounded every day.
SERGEY LAVROV: This is the fault of the US and EU.
GEORGE GALLOWAY: MENU: Day of infamy.
Krasnooktyabrskoye, the clearing in one of the liberated settlements in Kursk.
BORZZIKMAN: The WAR is LOST: Ukrainian Soldiers Began To Flee KURSK En Masse, Abandoning The Dead and Wounded.
Ukraine Loses Over 12,200 Soldiers During Operation in Kursk Region - MoD.
The Russian armed forces have eliminated more than 12,200 Ukrainian servicepeople and 96 tanks during military operations in the border areas of the Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the Ukrainian armed forces lost more than 12,200 servicemen, 96 tanks, 42 infantry fighting vehicles, 77 armored personnel carriers, 656 armored combat vehicles, 401 vehicles, the ministry said in a statement.
Over the past day, Kiev has lost up to 350 soldiers and 13 pieces of military equipment, including three tanks, in the Kursk direction, the ministry added.
The Russian troops have repelled one counterattack in the Kursk Region as well as prevented attack attempts targeting three Russian settlements, the ministry said, adding that the Ukrainian forces lost up to 30 people, two tanks, while 10 soldiers were taken as prisoners.
Ukraine Loses Over 12,200 Soldiers During Operation in Kursk Region - MoD.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-VENEZUELA-DPRK
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Gaza Rescuers Say 10 Killed In Israeli Strike On School.
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COLLECTIVE WEST <-> GLOBAL MAJORITY
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USA
RICHARD D. WOLFF - MICHAEL HUDSON: Is US Policy Saving the Dollar or Destroying It?
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JIMMY DORE: Biden Admin Digs Up Fresh Russiagate Propaganda For Election! w/ Ryan Dawson.
JIMMY DORE: Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson & Tim Pool Accused Of Being RUSSIAN Operatives!
EUROPE / UK
GEORGE GALLOWAY: MENU: Day of infamy.
Keir Starmer Under Fire On Israel-Gaza War.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
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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.
WESTERN STATES & VLADIMIR PUTIN COMMENT ON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE
This is an attempt to imagine the official reaction of western states and Vladimir Putin when it becomes clear that Russia has attained the goals it set for itself in Ukraine.
(After the culmination of successful peace talks which resulted in an agreement that the nation of Ukraine would never join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and that all territories Russia occupies currently that were formerly part of Ukraine are now irrevocably part of the Russian Federation, excepting the cities of Dnipro and Kiev which the Russian Federation returns as its part of the agreement, to Ukraine.).
On 20 January 2025, Russia, having liberated the entire Donbass region of southeastern Ukraine and all territory to the eastern bank of the Dnieper river, the Ukrainian army having collapsed in full retreat, declared a final end to current activity within its Special Military Operation.)
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The President of the United States, the U.S. Secretary of State, the British Prime Minister and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, issued a joint statement on the developments that have recently taken place in Ukraine.
FOR BROAD MEDIA RELEASE (5 February 2025)
We would like it to be known, first and foremost, that our resolution to stand by the people and nation of Ukraine remains undiminished. Our support for the institutions and territories of Ukraine are rock solid, in the light of which we hereby provide a cast iron guarantee that we will not let our Ukrainian friends down in their continuing fight against Russian aggression.
On this day the entire world can see that our united support for Ukraine has now resulted in the failure and utter defeat of the Russians in their goal to occupy and enslave all Ukraine. Together we have defied the unprovoked aggression of Vladimir Putin thereby humiliating him in his aim to enslave the people of Ukraine and destroy their nation, wiping it completely from the map. They have failed. We and the Ukrainian people have won against all the odds and all the expectations that we would be defeated. We have stood up to the aggressor and we have defeated him.
Vladimir Putin, by being unable to take the nation of Ukraine into the grotesque recreation of the Soviet Union he planned, has been thwarted in his plans to continue his invasion of Europe after his goal of obliterating Ukraine was realized. There will now be no reconstituted Soviet Union, nor will there be the planned invasion of the remainder of Europe by the Russian armed forces. We have stood firm throughout this heinous aggression that has made Russia a global pariah and has isolated it worldwide.
We are resolved to maintain our robust stance against the pernicious leader of the Russian Federation and to ensure any further acts of aggression on his part are responded to in an equally forceful manner to that which we have demonstrated over the past three difficult years.
There is no place in the modern world for the kind of abuses of international law perpetrated by the Russian state in Ukraine. Territorial sovereignty must be rigidly maintained with resolve and perpetual vigilance. It is to be fervently hoped that Vladimir Putin, the Russian government and the entire Russian population has learned a fundamental lesson through the unconscionable acts of war committed aggression perpetrated upon the Ukrainian and that any further similar acts of war will absolutely be countered with all the force at our command.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN COMMENTS UPON THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE & JOINT STATEMENT OF WESTERN STATES
PUBLISHED BY TASS (6 February 2025)
“As you will know very well we sought a peaceful outcome to the differences between the Russian state, the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass and the successive Ukrainian regimes which took power after the Maidan coup of 2014. It was never once our intention that violence should ensue between us. Through the seven years of the Minsk process we sought a comprehensive reconciliation and lasting peace through diplomatic means. Unfortunately our western partners and the authorities in Kiev it is now known never had this objective. Their goal, always, even through all these years, was to weaken Russia and to deliver a debilitating blow to our nation.
Despite all our efforts, efforts which did not end with the end of the Minsk process, despite offering talks with the Americans and NATO on the building of a new security architecture for peace in Europe, we found ourselves pushed inexorably in one direction, a direction that I have to say was planned for us all along. It was personally hard for me to believe that people of high status could act in such a way and as I have admitted in previous times this question has arisen, I was taken for a fool at that time. I was sincere and wished for a peaceful outcome. Unfortunately those sitting by me at the same negotiating table were not.
Then, in Istanbul, when all the primary areas of contention between ourselves and the Ukrainian regime seemed about to be reconciled, the subsequent signed paper was binned due to the intervention of Boris Johnson, Joe Biden’s emissary to Kiev, telling the Ukrainians not to search for peace, but instead to engage in war.
In regard to the primary accusations made against us that we sought to occupy the whole Ukraine and subject it, to destroy it and enslave its people, this is entirely false. Our aims were stated clearly as we began our operation to attain them, to ensure Ukraine never joined NATO, to free our Russian-speaking brothers and sisters of eastern Ukraine from danger and ensure their future security free to continue to use the language of their birth. Additionally the goals also set at that time were the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. Having achieved these goals and having no wish or desire for the attainment of further goals we halted our operation.
It is now our wish to continue in peace with all neighbors, the same wish we had from the start of the western intervention in our neighbor Ukraine in the years leading up to the cumulative and catastrophic event of the Maidan coup of 2014. Our further wish is to work had in the new regions of the Russian Federation to improve the lives of all who live there and, as soon as possible, to take the same path we endeavored to walk from the very start, the path to peace. No ambition existed to go to war with NATO by attempting the conquest of Europe. This scare story was thin indeed. All our goals are now achieved. A quiet life of trade and friendly cooperation within the BRICS and other similar international institutions is the extent of our ambition now. An ambition we welcome all others to join and invest in toward that most noble of goals, a full and permanent global peace.”
