RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 05.04.2023
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 various locations in Uzbekistan for the next nine days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates and quite possibly their total absence on some days. Our apologies for this alteration to, and possible temporary loss of, our daily updates.
*** BAKHMUT NEARS LIBERATION AS WESTERN POWER DECLINES ***
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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 Pushes Ukraine West Bakhmut; No German Troops Ukraine, Modi Meets Patrushev, Poles Protest.
THE DURAN
OPEC / Russia, production cuts. Japan breaks oil ceiling.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Trump arrest, clears path for Biden. Elensky speaks to Chile. Blinken, Russia has no money. U/1
Spring offensive ready. Elensky gives Russia one last chance. WaPo don't talk about Nord Stream. U/1
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
US Forces Under Fire in Syria: Illegal Occupation Enters Dangerous Phase.
MINTPRESS NEWS w/ LEE CAMP
Why China's Winning & The US Is Panicking (w/ Josef Gregory Mahoney).
SCHILLER INSTITUTE
"Replacing the Defunct 'Rules-Based Order' with Mutually Beneficial Cooperation for Development."
RUSSIAN NEWS
Russian industry has been hit by Western sanctions. But Russia survived! Putin.
Putin visited the Tula Railway Engineering Plant and talked to the workers | Russia.
CGTN
How much chaos has the U.S. brought to the world in the name of human rights?
JUDGE NAPOLITANO - LARRY JOHNSON
WEST PUSHING A NEW TERRORISM MEME IN RUSSIA.
iEARLGREY
Finland Joins NATO. Zelensky Prepares to Negotiate. Trans Golfer Gets Death Threats.
SCOTT RITTER
Ep. 58: Ask the Inspector.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR - TONY SHAFFER
"Russia is one step away from victory."
JACKSON HINKLE
Russia "Legally" Captures Bakhmut.
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (April 5, 2023)
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
"THEY DESTROY A WHOLE BATTALION IN 60 SECONDS!"
iEARLGREY
Posthumous Awards For Slain Journalist. Wagner Capture Centre of Artemovsk. NATO IGNORES UKRAINE BID.
QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT
Managing U.S.-China Crises: Problems, Pitfalls, and Prospects.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Putin revamps Russian tanks with Arena-M shield to counter Western weapons in Ukraine.
'Kick Out Ukraine': NATO Nation fumes at invite to Zelensky for Bloc's summit | Watch:
Russia warns EU as Ukraine gets 19% promised tanks from West | 'Will Retaliate With Harsh...'
FIRSTPOST
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THINK SCHOOL
How USA’s evil MONEY PRINTING strategy is killing the world economy? Geopolitical Case Study.
ANDREI JIKH
The End Of The US Dollar | What You Must Know.
BARRETT
The USA Failed to Crush Huawei.
THE NEW AFRICA CHANNEL
Kenya To Use Local Currency To Buy Oil from Saudi Arabia.
SEAN FOO
OPEC+ Is Winning The Economic War - Checkmate For The West.
SINO SPHERE
BRICS+, A.U Nations on the Rise, Breaking US, G7 & NATO Dominance over African Countries.
CCTV Video News Agency
US Retains Zero-Sum Mentality, Undermines Regional Peace, Stability: Spokeswoman.
FIRSTPOST
Malaysia To Dump US Dollar? | China Backs “Asian Monetary Fund”.
BORZZIKMAN
The U.S. is Desperately Hiding this from the Public! The End is Simply Inevitable!
ALEXANDRE GUERREIRO
O que significa a Rússia na Presidência do Conselho de Segurança da ONU?
TFIGlobal
Uruguay: CIA’s plan to send the entire region in a state of political instability. | World News.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: NATO DISASTER, DEMOCRATIC PEACE, THEORY, AND STATE ANARCHY.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 5th April 2023:
Russia gives ally nuclear strike capabilities.
Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Belarus’ warplanes can now carry nukes, with an Iskander-M missile unit also provided to Minsk.
Belarus’ Air Force can now carry out nuclear strikes thanks to Russia’s assistance, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has revealed. The Russian official noted that Moscow had also handed over a unit of nuclear-capable Iskander-M mobile short-range ballistic missiles to its ally.
Speaking during a meeting with Russian top brass on Tuesday, Shoigu said: “Part of the Belarusian attack air fleet have received the ability to conduct strikes on enemy targets with nuclear means of destruction.”
According to the minister, on Monday, Belarusian troops began getting acquainted with the Iskander-M missile system on one of Russia’s military training grounds as well.
Commenting on the move, Shoigu cited an uptick in NATO’s military activities along the borders of the Union State comprising Belarus and Russia.
Meanwhile, addressing Belarus’ parliament last Friday, the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, floated the possibility of Russian strategic nuclear weapons being deployed in the state, on top of the tactical ones.
“We will stop at nothing to protect our nations, our states, our people,” the official pointed out, adding that the move would likely serve as an effective deterrent against any hostile moves by the US and its allies.
In an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel in late March, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons might arrive in Belarus as early as this summer amid Minsk’s repeated calls to deploy such weapons on its territory.
He noted that Russia would not hand over control of any of those tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus.
Explaining the need for the move, the Russian head of state cited the UK’s decision to provide Kiev with depleted uranium munitions earlier in March.
Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov pointed out last week that the US had long stationed its own tactical nuclear weapons in five non-nuclear weapon states – Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Türkiye. The diplomat therefore concluded that any criticisms of Russia’s decision by the US were hypocritical.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Zelenski visits Poland. Russian defense line in Zaporozhye. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.05
Nuclear Power Plant. Ukraine Counteroffensive. ISW Updates. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.05
NATO. Wagner advances in Bakhmut. Easter ceasefire. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.04.04
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
DOWNTOWN BAKHMUT COLLAPSES.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
WAGNER DOMINATING CENTER OF BAKHMUT - sign of Ukrainian forces moving to new line of defense in city.
DPA WAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
WAR UPDATE: Russia FLANKING New Bakhmut Defense Line.
WAR UPDATE: Russia FLANKING New Bakhmut Defense Line.
WAR UPATE: Ukraine RETREATS In Bakhmut.
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Ukraine Front Update [5 April 2023]
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
Bakhmut Just Became Very Critical For Ukrainians | Front Line Update | Russia-Ukraine War.
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK UPDATE
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RYBAR UPDATE
❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦🎞 Rybar Daily Digest of the Special Military Operation: April 3, 2023
M MAPPING UPDATE
Russian Invasion of Ukraine:Day405 [ 5 April ]Wagner push Ukranian Forces Deeper into Bakhmut Center.
ATP GEOPOLITICS
Ukraine War Update (20230405): Full Frontline Update.
FREE RUSSIA CHANNEL UPDATE
No update posted so far today
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Russian Forces Advance As Fighting Intensifies In Bakhmut Center | Full Front Update 05/04/23.
Further Russian Advances Within Bakhmut 04/04/23.
Russian BREAKTHROUGH In Central Bakhmut 04/04/23
Enormous Number of Russian & Wagner Forces in Bakhmut | Surovikin in Charge | Full Update.
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
THE WORLD AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT IS ENDING
The momentous changes taking place now will form the shape of life for all future generations.
Whatever the end result of the titanic struggle currently taking place we will certainly live on a planet radically different than the one previous generations to ours have known.
The elites of the collective west are quite clearly determined to insist that their definition of right conduct, right leadership and right systems of governance be accepted worldwide and are willing to do almost anything to ensure their vision for the world is realised.
A homogeneous world where liberal hegemony prevails globally is their vision, one that refuses existence to any opposition in the name of what they frame as ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’, ‘western liberal values’ and a ‘rules based system’ according to their definition and design.
The world to come, if determined by the elites of the West will brook no resistance to the standards set by them, and will demand obedience to the codes of conduct they insist are the only acceptable standard.
Tolerance for any forms of governance than those set as standard by them will end. The monitoring of potential deviation from those standards will be constant and any infractions regarding those standards will certainly be punished in one form or another.
There will be one set of principles, one form of justice, one narrative on world events and one dominant power of control.
Currently many forms of governance exist which, if the western powers achieve their goals, will disappear forever never to be replaced. The determination is clearly to replace every last one of these, eliminating them and substituting systems which adhere to the standards, values, principles and systems of the collective west.
This standardised world will inevitably take shape if the conclusion of the struggle now taking place sees western powers realizing their goals.
If however those that the western powers now seek to eliminate and replace prevail there will continue to be a diverse variety of governance systems, sets of principles regarding how life is best lived, ethical and moral standards and the mix of restrictions and freedoms seen now. No homogenisation will take place and the western project to transform the world will end.
With the war being waged by the West against those unwilling to accept a collective west-ordered world, the unipolar world demanded, being lost, with western elites effectively quarantined, unable to press home their demands, what world will then result?
China and Russia, being the two primary opponents of the unipolar system of world dominance are clearly uninterested in the kind of uniformity sought by the USA, UK and their allies. Trade in the furtherance of better conditions of life for their populations are their clear primary goals. Tolerance for diversity and an absence of any intention to eliminate or radically change the governance systems, life principles, ethical or moral values appear to be the foundation of that new world in prospect.
Alongside tolerance for all the many diverse systems of that world and in parallel with it would be their expectation that their own traditions, values and systems also be respected as they tolerate those of others. Security and sovereignty with agreement at the highest level would ensure relations allowed for trading relations to continue unhindered.
These are the two possible worlds that await us. One is a strictly monitored world by the western powers now insisting that all nations MUST adhere to the principles of behaviour and governance they require as standard. The other is a world not greatly divergent from the one we have know to date at its best where great diversity exists within a framework of trade and coexistence.
Currently the overarching unity sought by the institution of the United Nations is being superseded by the western powers intent on their own goals which they conceive of as being more urgent than the keeping of peace. If they prevail there will hardly be need for such an organisation as the will of the West will be done, constantly insisted upon and systems of control and punishment will ensure this is the case for any deviation from its standards.
In the alternate world should China and Russia prevail the United Nations will achieve a peak of influence only dreamed of in the past.
The world as we have known it is ending. The world to come will not be as it has been until now.
Each one of us now will be affected by the momentous changes currently taking place and each one of us must decide on which side of history we stand.