RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 12.07.2023
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.
*** WHAT NOW FOR UKRAINE WITH ITS OFFENSIVE A DISASTER? ***
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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:
PROFESSOR JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
LINK: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE UKRAINE WAR. A LECTURE BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN
Ukraine Bad Day: Attack Fails, Heavy Losses, Leopard 2s, Ru Captures Bradley; NATO Turns Back on Ukr.
Erdogan Flips, Agrees Sweden NATO for F16s; Ukr Heavy Losses; Russian Advance Kupiansk, Liman.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
NATO, when conditions are met. Elensky, NO respect. Kissinger reveals Nord Stream saboteur. U/1
GARLAND NIXON - SCOTT RITTER
WARRIOR UPDATE - NATO THEATRE OF THE ABSURD.
LEVAN GUDADZE
Update on Ukraine, Humiliation of Zelensky and NATO in Vilnius, Ruble beating ‘toxic’ currencies...
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter Extra Ep. 81: Ask the Inspector.
SYRIANA ANALYSIS - STEVE SWEENEY
Ukraine war: a British journalist is challenging the establishment narrative.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
‘Ukrainian Units Decimated’ – Why the US Still Won’t Allow Ukraine to Negotiate Peace.
REDACTED
The FBI caught working with Ukraine to CENSOR Social Media!
EMIL COSMAN
Ukraine Front Update, Jul 11. Russia attacks Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Marinka sectors.
Zelensky angry with NATO's refusal. Zelensky's inflated self-importance demands NATO's "respect."
Did FBI collude with Ukraine Security Services to censor US social media accounts? US House Panel.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
Biden Approves War Crimes Via Cluster Bombs In Ukraine.
GLENN GREENWALD
Biden Sends Deadly Cluster Bombs to Ukraine—A Reckless New Escalation.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
INTERVIEW: Exposing the Biden Crime Family.
JACKSON HINKLE
RUSSIAN SOLDIER'S EPIC RANT.
Russia Makes HUGE ADVANCES In Ukraine, MAJOR Battlefield Impacts.
US Admits "FAILURE" In Ukraine.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russian Soldiers Flaunt 'Captured' American Bradley In Ukraine; Send 'Greetings To Zelensky' | Viral.
Russia Crushes Ukraine's 'Retake Bakhmut' Bid; Missile Hurricane Across Battlefield Amid NATO Summit.
Big Win For Russia; 'Ukraine Loses 26,000 Fighters, 3,000 Arms In Counteroffensive' Despite NATO Aid.
Russian Drone Drops VOG-17 Grenade & Obliterates Ukrainian Ammo Depot In Avdiivka | Watch:
How Russian Jammers Are Ruining Ukrainian Drones Around Bakhmut Amid Fierce Battle | Report:
GARLAND NIXON
WHAT IS NATO?
DR. STEVE TURLEY
Why Putin's Economy is Booming!!!
MILITARY TUBE TODAY
NATO heavy vehicle column annihilated as storming Russian line to Robotino.
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS
Russian Forces Capture Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
Ukrainian POW's Talk About Training and Situation at the Front.
THROUGH THE EYES OF... ANIA
“INFLATION IN RUSSIA IS THE LOWEST ACROSS THE WORLD “. LAVROV ABOUT “A BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE COIN “.
BREAKING POINTS
Trump, Dems TRASH Biden On Cluster Bombs To Ukraine.
BREAKTHROUGH NEWS
Comparing the US and China: Homelessness and the Housing Crisis.
ShanghaiEye魔都眼
Beijing rejects NATO’s stance on China, exposes NATO’s lies, double standards and Cold War mentality.
CCTV VIDEO NEWS AGENCY
China Urges NATO to Stop Making Groundless Accusations.
FIRSTPOST
China MoFA LIVE: Chinese Foreign Ministry News Conference.
TECH REVOLUTION
Qatar JUST SHOCKED Europe With Massive Gas Cuts | Embraces China.
TELESUR ENGLISH
Iranian President to begin tour of African countries.
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
THE GREAT OIL SHOWDOWN! Oil Tanker Battle Exposes the HYPOCRISY of American SANCTIONS.
acTVism Munich feat. Aaron Maté
Unabhängiger Journalist debattiert mit britischem Diplomaten über Syrien-Vertuschung bei der UN.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
U.S. Power & the Darkness Ahead for Ukraine.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 12th July 2023:
Hungarian PM makes Ukraine proposal.
Viktor Orban says that peace talks, not weapons, are the way ahead.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has urged NATO to promote a ceasefire and peace talks in Ukraine rather than continue to ship weapons to Kiev. He made the argument in a video clip posted on social media on Monday.
“Instead of bringing weapons to Ukraine, we should bring peace,” Orban said in the video, delivered in Hungarian with English captions. “A ceasefire is necessary, and instead of war, peace negotiations should start as soon as possible.”
NATO is supposed to defend member states, “not to carry out military actions on the territory of other countries,” Orban noted in the video, urging the US-led bloc to stay true to its official “defensive” mission.
Budapest’s position remains unchanged, the prime minister added, and is informed by the fact that Hungary borders Ukraine and that a significant ethnic Hungarian community in Transcarpathia is in danger from the hostilities.
Leaders of NATO countries met on Monday in Vilnius, Lithuania for the annual summit. The bloc doubled down on its rhetorical and logistical support for the government in Kiev, but stopped short of actually inviting Ukraine to join the bloc.
The US and its allies have poured over $100 billion worth of weapons, equipment, and ammunition into Ukraine since hostilities with Russia escalated in February 2022, and imposed a wide-ranging economic embargo on Moscow, while insisting they are not actually a party to the conflict.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who traveled to Vilnius but is not formally attending the summit, attacked NATO on social media Monday morning, accusing the bloc of not giving Ukraine the proper “respect” by daring to set conditions for membership and not offering a timeline.
Hungary has repeatedly argued for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict, refusing to send any weapons to Kiev or allow them transit across its territory. That stance has frequently led to a war of words with Zelensky and his officials.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 12th July 2023 : Hungarian PM makes Ukraine proposal.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Summer Operations | Wagner, Russia Got Bradley, Snake Island, Liman. Military Summary For 2023.07.12
The Russians Are Getting Ready For A New Push. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.07.12
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
Lyman Offensive OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED by Shoigu; Russian forces on verge of entering Torske.
DPA WAR UPDATE
UKRAINE COUNTERATTACKS to push back Russia progress at Avdiivka Front; CLOSE LOOK at the frontlines.
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
FULL FRONT UPDATE: Russian OFFENSIVE on Lyman Front.
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
Battlefield Ukraine Russian Wall of Death.
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
All Offensive Maneuvers Escalate | Heavy Fighting Across The Whole Front 07/12/23.
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.
WHERE DOES UKRAINE GO FROM HERE?
Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander in Chief of the Ukrainian Military told anyone who would listen that fielding a counteroffensive with virtually no air cover for his troops, facing a Russian army well dug in, and with many times more artillery and air superiority for its planes and helicopter gunships, was a grave mistake.
No one of any importance appears to have been listening. The Ukrainian counteroffensive is more of a suicide operation than anything else. To call it a dud and ineffectual doesn’t do it justice, the regime’s leader, Zelensky, pushed by his western sponsors created a killing field for his own countrymen. Does that seem to faze him any? It appears not. Hie sole concern appears to be how to generate the next media appearance in which he features as a superhero.
How do the Ukrainian people of western Ukraine, who voted for him in their millions as the peace candidate dedicated to coming to a settlement with Russia, feel about the war that the US/UK/EU/NATO say needs to continue? Apparently there are now protests in western Ukraine due to the graveyards being too limited in size to deal with all the corpses arriving from the front. Yet look for any dismay in Zelensky’s face as he flies here and there hob-nobbing with various nations’ elites. He seems to be doing just fine.
Zaluzhnyi disappeared from view for a couple of weeks recently before popping up again very briefly. Were certain actors in this tragedy attempting to make him shut the ‘f’ up and convince him to toe Zelensky’s line that Ukraine was going to teach the Russians a lesson and have his “glorious” army break through their lines to reach the Azov Sea? Or just to shut up if he refused to do the latter. Seemingly he didn’t quite get the message as he gave his views once again to the Wall Street Journal. Perhaps he will vanish from you once again for a while… or perhaps even forever.
It has been reported for six months and more that Zaluzhnyi and Zelensky almost never see eye to eye with Zelensky always having the final say and getting his way. By the way, the latest report from the Russian Ministry of Defence states that since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began the Ukrainian army has lost 26,000 soldiers. How do they know this? They explained recently that they can listen in to Ukrainian army reports to base on daily casualties.
So, it should be clear to anyone with a few brain cells to rub together that Russia has won this and that to fight on with any success is quite beyond the Kiev regime. Those in charge placed their trust in the assurances of Joe Biden and Boris Johnson conveyed to Zelensky shortly after something close to a peace settlement was agreed between the sides in Istanbul in March 2022. A peace settlement didn’t suit these two men and Zelensky had his arm twisted to end the search for peace and instead continue to fight.
Just as the western powers had only played a game with the Russians regarding the Minsk Accords pathway to peace (as has been explained by Merkel and Poroshenko) they were not of a mind to see peace break out now. Putin had sent a modest number of troops and vehicles to the vicinity of Kiev to persuade Zelensky to come to his senses and seek peace. When it appeared Zelensky had taken this seriously and serious gains were made in Istanbul Putin had them withdrawn. Then came Boris to Kiev to deliver his ultimatum.
If Zelensky continued along the path to a peace settlement his western sponsors would pull their support from Ukraine and would give him no guarantee of any security. However, if he abandoned the negotiations in Istanbul, threw the substantive agreements that had been made in the nearest bin then they would supply him with everything he needed to “win the war” and drive the Russian military out of every bit of the territory they had taken. Tragically Zelensky was essentially blackmailed into taking the latter offer.
Now something of the order of 200,000 Ukrainians are dead and many more wounded, the Ukrainian economy hardly exists and now we hear that the western powers are out of ammo to give him. Joe biden let this particular cat out of the bag only yesterday though it had been long forecast by those in the know. Russia on the other hand has expanded its production of military vehicles, missiles and ammunition many times over.
So. What. Now?
Now it seems the hard liners in the West want to escalate, to give Zaluzhnyi what he originally asked for hundreds of this and that plus F16 jets and who knows, perhaps even nuclear warheads. What he is getting is supply of two-decade (or more) old cluster munitions. As Biden says, the cupboard is almost bare except for these. That Russia has a huge stockpile of these that they will use if the Kiev regime does, seems not to have perturbed Biden in the slightest.
Does anything perturb Biden in the slightest these days? Perhaps only how to get off a stage after one of his incoherent ramblings that are supposed to pass for speeches. Though he can fly into a rage okay. We have seen that once or twice… actually more often than that when we think back to his verbal duals with detractors during his presidential campaign. Biden, always a political thug and given the Ukraine brief by Obama has a bee in his raggedy bonnet over that nation. Perhaps that bee has entered his grey matter through one ear and hasn’t exited through the other yet to search for the bug up Biden’s ass concerning it. It appears he is willing to start WWIII over it. And we all thought TRUMP was insane.
With Biden in the White House surrounded by raving neocons such as Blinken and Nuland what can Zelensky do? And what of the neo-Nazis, some of whom he has just brought back from Turkey? Do you really think they will let him become a peacenik again? Only if he’s hanging from a lamp post after being tarred and feathered maybe. Zelensky is between a rock and a hard place. He thinks his only chance of survival is to continue saying Ukraine is going to win, continually placing barriers before any mention of peace talks and in essence being the ‘warrior king’. If he slides he knows either the fanatics around him or the everyday long-suffering Ukrainians (who have ALL lost someone at this point in a war Ukraine could never win) will do for him and maybe for his family too.
This is the tragic circumstance Ukraine finds itself in and got itself into because the West wanted to use it as a battering ram against Russia. A Russia by the way led by a man who strove for seven years from 2015 to 2022 to bring all parties involved to a peaceful solution and who, even as he saw that a military solution was the only one left to him, attempted to end it as soon as humanly possible. In Istanbul, only weeks after the Russian military began its operation, a peaceful settlement appeared to be within reach so, as a gesture of good will he withdrew the force he had sent to set up camp in the vicinity of Kiev.
If Zelensky had been left to his own devices and had finally given the largely Russian-speaking Donbass the autonomy they longed for so they could preserve their way of life after the coup in Kiev of 2014 Ukraine would have remained largely intact. Crimea, with its long Russian history, until gifted to Ukraine by Khrushchev, would have stayed as part of Russia, but all else would have remained Ukrainian. But Boris and Biden got their way and war it was instead of an agreement leading to peace.
What can the Ukrainians do now? Being realistic and with the West continuing to prod Ukraine into battle, all they can hope for now is a speedy and overwhelming Russian victory. And that whatever is left of Ukraine is at peace, the peace they had always wanted by voting for the peacemaker turned warmonger Zelensky, the man they elected to negotiate with Russia and find a way to peace, not provide the endless misery they are deeply mired in now.
