RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 04.05.2023
RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 04.05.2023
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.
Please note: We will be in Türkiye (Turkey) for the next 12 hours then in transit. This will result in variations to the timing of updates and most likely less updates than usual. Our apologies for this alteration to our daily updates.
*** HAS UKRAINE’S COUNTEROFFENSIVE FINALLY BEGUN? ***
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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 Mulls Response Kremlin Drone Attack, Repels Attacks; Nuclear War Risks Grow Over US Missiles.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Elensky at The Hague. Politico, maybe Russia did Nord Stream. US bank crash. Biden quid pro quo. U/1
THE DURAN
Let's talk about drones hitting the Kremlin (Live).
LEVAN GUDADZE
Drone strike on the Kremlin and Russian infrastructure, More weapons for Ukraine, US economy...
SCOTT RITTER
LIVE FROM IRKUTSK, RUSSIA - 04.05.2023
REDACTED
RED ALERT! Putin blames U.S. for Kremlin attack, activates nuke forces at highest level | Redacted.
BORZZIKMAN
What was the True Purpose of the Drones Attack on the Kremlin? [BORZZIKMAN's Explanation].
GARLAND NIXON
BIDEN FACING BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS - DEEP STATE REVENGE FOR NORD STREAM
DRONE ATTACK ON THE KREMLIN - WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
BREAKING POINTS
US Preps UKRAINE With Nuclear Attack Sensors.
FIRSTPOST
China MoFA LIVE: Chinese Foreign Ministry Holds Daily News Conference.
VOTUM TV: HERETICS
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson on why its OVER for Ukraine.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
Are we on the brink of WW111? Discuss.
MUDROGUE
Putin Assassination attempt by Ukraine: Zelensky in hiding.
ANTIWAR NEWS WITH DAVE DECAMP
Blinken: Ukraine Better Off Than Leaks Show, Civilian Reported Killed by US Drone in Syria, and more...
iEARLGREY (MIKE JONES)
Ukraine Denies Strike on Kremlin. Counter Offensive HAS ALREADY BEGUN. U.S. Default is a 'Trick'.
SCOTT RITTER IN RUSSIA
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 66: Ask the Inspector
LIVE FROM IRKUTSK
SCOTT RITTER IN RUSSIA
The Road to Peace: A Journey Through Russia.
REDACTED
BREAKING! Biden money laundering SCHEME exposed by whistleblower | Redacted with Clayton Morris.
NATO launches an assassination attempt against Putin, Zelensky flees to Finland.
STEPHEN GARDNER - JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO
The WHITE HOUSE Is More Compromised Than We Knew.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA)
Missiles & Drones in the Ukraine War.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA)
Kremlin Attacked- What do we know, What does it mean?
JACKSON HINKLE
Ukraine DRONE STRIKES Kremlin.
VREVELATIONS
Drone Attack On The Kremlin: Russia Claims Assassination Attempt on Putin Blames Ukraine.
DANNY HAIPHONG - SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter: Ukraine is NO MATCH for Russia as NATO Runs Out of Aid.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia carpet-bombs Ukraine after Kremlin attack; 'Revenge' strikes in Kyiv, Kherson, Odessa.
'Eliminate Zelensky': Russia's Medvedev Issues Chilling Threat After Kremlin Drone Attack | Watch:
Russia reviles 'ISIS-like' Zelensky regime; 'Use any weapon capable of destroying Kyiv...' | Watch:
Putin winning 'Global South'? Support pours in for Russia from Nepal against West's sanctions.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW w/ AARON MATÉ
With Tucker Gone, McCarthy Embraces Ukraine War 100%.
“Peace Is A Trap!” Says U.S. Secretary Of State.
JACKSON HINKLE
UKRAINE DRONE STRIKES KREMLIN IN PUTIN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.
Zelensky Admits MASSIVE Failure.
Ukrainian Soldier In Bakhmut EXPOSES Nightmare Scenario.
Col Macgregor: "RUSSIA Has Been Surpassed".
Why?
TELESUR ENGLISH
Russia accuses Ukraine of assassination attempt against Putin.
LINE FLUX
Putin' attempted assassination | The Blame Game - Zelensky or Biden?
STEPHEN GARDNER
Biden’s in BIG TROUBLE Now!
GERALD CELENTE
AMERIKA: THE DEEP STATE CULTURE.
CGTN
Iranian president Raisi meets Syrian president al-Assad on landmark trip.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS
Iran’s Raisi in Syria: visit hailed as ‘historic’ & ‘strategic victory’ w/ Prof. Mohammad Marandi.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Joe Biden Talks Press Freedom, “Forgets” About Assange.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
From Crisis to Collapse: US Banks on the Brink.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT w/ BEN NORTON
Understanding China's economic system: Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
DEEPIN MOMENTS
89 Nations launch De-Dollarization, Musk Sees Dollar Being Weaponized.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MICHAEL PARENTI: REFLECTIONS ON THE OVERTHROW OF COMMUNISM
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 4th May 2023:
Ukrainian counteroffensive has started – Wagner boss.
Kiev’s forces have “unlimited men and ammunition,” Yevgeny Prigozhin has said.
The head of the private military company Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Wednesday that the Ukrainian forces had begun their counterattack in Artyomovsk (known in Ukrainian as Bakhmut) and are threatening to overwhelm his undersupplied troops.
Wagner forces advanced more than 200 meters on Wednesday, sustaining 116 fatalities and leaving less than three square kilometers of the Donbass city in Ukrainian possession, Prigozhin said in an audio clip shared online.
However the PMCs leader then announced that the Ukrainian military has “...begun its counterattack,” with “...unlimited manpower and ammunition.”
Meanwhile, he painted a dire picture of Wagner’s own situation, saying “ammunition shortages are acute” and his troops have enough rounds remaining “for just a few days.”
The Russian Defense Ministry is refusing to issue artillery ammunition to Wagner, “ignoring our every request,” Prigozhin claimed.
Wagner forces have been at the forefront of street fighting in Artyomovsk, known by Ukrainians as Bakhmut, a key rail and road junction in Donbass. Kiev has funneled tens of thousands of soldiers to the city, even as Wagner and other Russian troops established fire control over all the supply roads, leaving the Ukrainians half surrounded.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Probing Attacks In The South. Bakhmut Began To Give Up. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.05.04
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
Bakhmut Update | Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones Search for Putin | Ukraine Begins Probing for Attack.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russia to Respond.
RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, May 3rd.
M MAPPING UPDATE
Heavy Fighting Between Russian And Ukranian Forces Continues.
HISTORY OF MAKUS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Bakhmut Endgame | Artillery Limit Lifted | Heavy Fighting In The NW and SW 04/05/23.
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
A GLOBAL SPIDER IS NOW CAUGHT FIRMLY IN ITS OWN WEB
The web in the title consists of many things, of deceit and dishonesty, of manipulative tactics and Machiavellian policies, all designed to strongarm incalcitrant states to the spider’s will, and in combination weave a matrix of continual disputation and war around the world… in the global spider’s interests.
The spider caught up in its own web is of course the USA and its “children”, the UK and EU. Every move these self-interested powers make embroils them in counterproductive activities that bind them ever more thoroughly within an insidious web of their own making. This inevitably increases the focus and attention of other nations on them as their longterm enemy.
How did it come to this point? Why are the western nations now seen as the enemy of freedom and democratic values?
Their insistence that only they should be obeyed and that no nation should have any truck with any others but them has led to this state of counterproductive struggling by the western powers. Their insistence that they and they alone are exceptional enough to govern, that their superiority over all others should be self-evident, has led directly to this point.
Nations are queuing up to abandon the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Why? Because the nations of the collective west have quite obviously been using it as a means to bully and cajole others into remaining within their sphere of dominance by which they maintain their control over them.
Could this situation not have been predicted? To a large extent yes. But who could have predicted that Saudi Arabia would act against the petrodollar as it has, turning its back on the western nations who treated it as its ‘best friend’ in the Middle East. That has come as a major shock to those who had their eye on a different ball altogether.
Ukraine is the ball that excludes all other geopolitical attention for western states and has done for years now. Despite the game being lost as the nations of the global south and Eurasia rise against them, the West has become obsessed with its war against Russia via Ukraine. Ukraine is their obsessive and exclusive focus into which they are pouring all their resources. It remains a black hole for their attention, devouring the intellect and insight that would otherwise be used to examine and respond to the global rather than local crisis they face.
More than this, the very emphasis on Ukraine is in itself making the international scene for the West so much worse due to nations seeing that sanctions could well be applied to them also eventually if the USA and its allies consider they have not bowed to their wishes sufficiently. Why should they wait until the USA and its allies start to turn the screw on them via sanctions backed by the enforcement of the petrodollar? Abandoning the petrodollar sets them totally free from this threat.
Abandoning the petrodollar, the use of local currencies and later and the forthcoming BRICS currency, will see the USA steadily relegated to the position of just one more nation among many, largely stripped of its ability to bully others into submission. No longer will it be able to foster its own self-interest and that of its allies through the ‘big stick’ that was the petrodollar. Its threat of sanctions can then be laughed at as nations worldwide choose whatever relationship with others they wish and trade with them with impunity no longer having to look over their shoulders at the USA.
The western nations who have acted as warders in a global prison based on the petrodollar weapon are acting in almost every instance to make the present situation even worse and are bringing on the very multipolar world which will render them impotent. They will have equal say perhaps… but certainly no longer the final say.
These nations have become so used to being top dogs, holding power over others, that they are now addicted to this as a permanent and unchanging reality. They have become power-junkies and are now reacting to losing their fix. The cold turkey they are experiencing makes them act in reckless ways that only makes their situation worse and loses them whatever means they previously had to ensure that fix.
Truly the West is caught in an insidious web from which there is no obvious escape. They struggle wildly to escape yet these very movements bind them and entrap them even more securely within that web. The Catch-22 situation they find themselves in inexorably brings them to the very fate they so rabidly seek to escape. Their quarantining within this web, vulnerable and exposed due to the obviousness of their criminality, deceit, terror, torture, global blackmail and dictatorial venom, displays every sign of becoming permanent. What will ultimately be seen of them apart from their iniquities over time? Can they emerge as nations willing to share the world equally with all others? Only time will tell. Until then the web only grows thicker and more binding around them, continually added to by their own actions.
