RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 02.04.2024
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.
*** ZELENSKY SHOWS SIGNS OF DESPONDENCY - PRESSURE GROWS ***
“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.
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JUDGE NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA): NATO Waits In Vain For a Russian Offensive.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - ALASTAIR CROOKE: Crocus Concert Attack Is a Turning Point.
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About the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall and about Ukraine. Lavrov, Russia.
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Russia-NATO relations worse than during Cold War – Moscow.
The Russian military is ready for the possible deployment of the US-led bloc’s troops to Ukraine, a top diplomat has said.
The current state of relations between Russia and NATO can be described as “something more than a Cold War,” the head of Moscow’s delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, has said.
During an interview with RIA Novosti on Monday, Gavrilov was asked to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron’s February statement that he “cannot exclude” the possibility of troops from NATO countries being sent to Ukraine to aid Kiev in the conflict with Moscow.
“The military strategists in Washington and Brussels should realize: if by lifting the taboo on the potential deployment of the bloc’s servicemen to Ukraine they are trying to test our country’s strength, then we are ready for any turn of events,” he replied.
According to the diplomat, warnings by US President Joe Biden and other Western politicians, that if Russia defeats Ukraine it is going to take on NATO states next, are actually aimed at diverting “the attention of taxpayers from the senseless pumping of their money into the Ukrainian ‘corruption black hole’ as well as to warm up the public opinion in favor of reviving defense industries in their countries.”
Read more: New NATO member backs Macron on troops in Ukraine
His comment echoed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement last week that “the claims that we are going to attack Europe after Ukraine – it is utter nonsense and intimidation of their own population just to beat the money out of them.”
Gavrilov said that during the Cold War, almost all NATO statements began with the evaluation of the possibility of a sudden large-scale attack on the bloc by the USSR and its Eastern European allies. Similar rhetoric is prevalent within the US-led military alliance today, he added.
The diplomat recalled that Russia has been labeled “the most significant and direct threat” in NATO’s Strategic Concept, which was adopted in 2022. “Apparently, now their ideal vision of European security is the borders with our country being wrapped in barbed wire,” he said.
“As a result, Russia-NATO relations can now be characterized as something more than a Cold War,” Gavrilov stressed.
READ MORE: No ‘direct threat’ from Russia – senior NATO officer
Since fighting between Russia and Ukraine began in February 2022, Moscow has said repeatedly that the US and its NATO allies have become de-facto parties to the conflict through the provision of arms, including advanced weaponry, intelligence-sharing, and the training of Ukrainian troops.
Russia-NATO relations worse than during Cold War – Moscow.
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ISRAEL-PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-DPRK-TAIWAN
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USA
US seeking to distort facts about Moscow terror attack – intelligence report.
Washington is trying to clear Kiev from accusations of involvement in the concert-hall massacre, according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
The US State Department and special services have reportedly been ordered by the Biden administration to create a “distorted picture” about last month’s terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow and to remove any suspicion from the Ukrainian government, according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
On March 22, four gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall concert venue just outside Moscow, going on a shooting spree and setting fire to the building. The massacre resulted in 144 deaths.
The Afghanistan-based offshoot of the Islamic State terrorist group has claimed credit for the attack. However, the head of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), Aleksandr Bortnikov, has claimed that the US, UK, and Ukraine may be linked to the crime.
In a press release on Monday, the SVR claimed that it has received information that US-affiliated NGOs and media have been tasked with “removing from the international community any suspicions about the involvement of Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage in the crime.”
The service suggested that the White House fears that the discovery of a “Kiev trace” in the attack would “highlight the terrorist nature of the Ukrainian regime” and derail Washington’s attempts to increase support for Ukraine.
Read more: Recently detained militants linked to Moscow terror attack – FSB
As an example of such attempts to cover up the story, the SVR claimed that American agencies are already trying to convince US allies and partners that the Afghan branch of Islamic State, Vilayat Khorasan, was responsible for the attack.
To reinforce this narrative the US has been “stuffing” the information field with stories about how Russia has long been the target of Islamic terrorists who seek revenge for the war in Chechnya in the early 2000s, for Moscow’s support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and for establishing ties with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the SVR said.
The SVR reported further that Russian opposition figures who have left the country have also been ordered to “highlight the unfoundedness” of Moscow’s alleged use of the terrorist attack as justification for its ongoing military operation in Ukraine.
However, despite its efforts, Washington’s “propaganda rhetoric is not selling well,” the agency said, claiming that the US has failed to achieve a uniform assessment of the tragedy, even among NATO and EU members.
”Washington began to shield Zelensky even before ‘the ashes’ of the burned Crocus City Hall had time to cool. Such haste seems reckless to many in the West, and suspicious to many in the East,” it pointed out.
“By whitewashing the criminal Kiev regime, [the US] risks being suspected of involvement in international terrorism,” the SVR warned.
READ MORE: Foreign diplomats pay tribute to victims of Moscow terrorist attack
US seeking to distort facts about Moscow terror attack – intelligence report.
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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.
BY APRIL’S END THE UKRAINIAN ARMY MAY HAVE LOST A TOTAL OF HALF A MILLION MEN
The monthly toll of Ukrainian troops who have either died or been severely wounded is climbing. In March some twenty seven thousand left the line of contact forever. The total number of dead and wounded currently stands at something over four hundred and seventy three thousand. In January the losses were over twenty three thousand, in February over twenty seven thousand and in March over thirty thousand.
As related in yesterday’s commentary, the number of Ukrainian military casualties has greatly increased since the beginning of the year compared with the same period in 2023. At the beginning of 2023 Ukrainian dead and wounded figures were running in a range of between three hundred and four hundred per day. In March just passed the losses were running at an average of one thousand per day, almost a threefold increase.
What are the reasons for the increase in Ukrainian military casualties?
One reason for the steady increase above is likely to be the increasingly amateur army that the Ukrainians are fighting with. The vast majority of well-trained (some NATO trained) troops have been taken off the battlefield killed or wounded. What is increasingly left are very poorly trained conscripts (forced or otherwise) whose average age is forty three. The lack of training and the certain inability of these troops to engage in coordinated attacks leave them subject to massive attrition through Russian attacks and/or Russian shelling of their positions.
Another reason for the increase in Ukrainian military casualties is undoubtedly the use of many additional and increasingly deadly means of delivering shells and missiles with ever-increasing accuracy. Glide bombs of great destructive power are increasingly in use by the Russian military. These cost a fraction of the cost of cruise missiles but do the same job and can be created at low cost by installing flight control units on simple unguided bombs.
Thirdly Russia is constantly bringing on stream new and improved weaponry backed by a military industrial complex that is being constantly increased in capacity. The provision of all types of military vehicles, weaponry and ammunition is increasing to an ever greater extent. This is fuelling the ability of the Russian army to go onto the offensive, sure in the knowledge that munitions capacity and weapons production can more than keep pace with demand.
Fourthly, but by no means least important, is the ability of the Russian air force to be much more active now than it has been in previous times. This is possible due to so many of Ukraine’s air defences being destroyed, including many Patriot systems, in recent months. Russian jets are able to roam freely in many areas taking out enemy positions, destroying arms and fuel dumps and so forth. Using the aforementioned glide bombs which they carry they can also destroy these positions at a much greater distance and with more accuracy than was previously the case.
A fifth reason for the increasing level of Ukrainian military casualties is the push forward by Russian troops over the previous three months and the increasing disarray of the Ukrainian troops due to factors one and two above. Russia increasingly has the upper hand as Ukrainian army morale continues to slip after the recent liberation of Avdeevka.
All of the above factors will likely see Ukrainian military casualties soar to even greater heights in the coming months and it seems clear that with nothing obvious standing in the way, the toll of Ukrainian military casualties over the entire two year plus period of Russia’s special military operation will reach a total of five hundred thousand, or over, by the end of April.
