RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.05.2023
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 Southern India for the next two days. This will result in variations to the timing of updates and quite possibly their total absence on certain days.
*** WESTERN MEDIA IN DENIAL AS RUSSIA TAKES BAKHMUT ***
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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
Defeat for Ukraine, Bakhmut Falls, Russia in Full Control; Kiev, West in Denial.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Elensky; Russia does/does not occupy Bakhmut. G7 shifts to China. Medvedev invites Musk. U/1
THE DURAN
Trade between BRICS nations hits record levels.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS
Bakhmut Folds: Russia Takes City + Ukraine's Struggle Against Toll of Attrition.
JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
What's the Deal with Bakhmut?
GARLAND NIXON
CAN NEOCONS START WW3 AGAINST RUSSIA, CHINA, & WESTERN CITIZENS?
UKRAINE PROJECT DEBACLE - BAKHMUT FALLS, PATRIOT SMASHED, ZELENSKY ON THE RUN.
JACKSON HINKLE
BAKHMUT FALLS.
Zelensky is running out of time and friends.
HISTORY LEGENDS
BAKHMUT HAS FALLEN.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Can Africa End the Ukraine War?
LEVAN GUDADZE
Ukraine's "invasion" of the Belgorod region, Bakhmut, Zelensky in denial, Armenia-Breakthrough...
Russian victory in Bakhmut, Hopeless Western elite and F-16, Tucker Carlson for president...
SCOTT RITTER
Zelensky's Testimony at the UK Parliament Insights into the Russian Offensive's Initiation.
Navigating Iran's Challenges.
Western Interference and the Nuclear Deal's Perilous Future.
RUSSIAN NEWS
It started long before the start of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine! Lavrov.
DEEP WEAPONS
RUSSIA COMPLETED TESTS OF MOST POWERFUL ARTILLERY GUN IN THE WORLD.
NUMUVES
World has had ENOUGH of USA's sh*t!
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia destroys 15 HIMARS, bombs arms depot in Donetsk; Zaporizhzhia nuke plant on standby | Watch:
Putin in joy after Bakhmut 'victory'; Praises Wagner Chief, announces state award.
Putin's 'revenge' for ICC arrest warrant; Moscow's big move against judge and prosecutor | Details:
Russia films deadly attack on Ukrainian forces; Artillery rains fire on Kyiv's forces | Watch:
Elon Musk to visit Bakhmut after Russian victory? Putin ally's 'invite' to Twitter boss.
Zelensky confirms Russian victory in Bakhmut? 'Nothing Left... The City Is in Our Hearts'.
FIRSTPOST
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi Takes a Dig at Developed Nations in Papua New Guinea.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
G7 TUMULT - MOATS Episode 240.
Britain’s unelected Prime Minister beats the war drums over China.
RACHEL BLEVINS
Sunday Morning Walk | Looking Back at Traveling from Moscow to Dubai to D.C. to Texas.
LENA PETROVA
U.S. BANKRUPTCIES Are Up 216%: Expect $1 TRILLION In Debt Defaults.
LINE FLUX
Why is the US treasury going bankrupt on June 1, effects on Americans.
BRICS+| Zelensky accuses Arab leaders of 'blind eye' to war ahead of G7 Summit.
AFRICAN DIASPORA NEWS CHANNEL
U.S. Comes To Africa To Steal Natural Resources & Finish Off The Continent.
DUE DISSIDENCE
Marianne Staff QUIT, Manchin THIRD PARTY Rumors INTENSIFY, Zelensky's G7 Trip.
LIU SIVAYA
PLANES FOR UKRAINE: UK, France and the Netherlands encourage a new escalation | liusivaya. (In Spanish.)
VICTORIA RUSA EN BAJMUT: el PMC Wagner confirma la toma de la ciudad.
I SUED FOR THIS: the events leading up to my lawsuit against a Western "journalist" | liusivaya. (In Spanish.)
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: THE GREAT DELUSION
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 22nd May 2023:
Key Donbass city fully liberated – Moscow.
Artyomovsk has been captured, the Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed.
Russian troops have completely liberated the strategic Donbass city of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine), the scene of a grueling battle for many months, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed in the early hours of Sunday.
The operation in the city was executed by the Wagner private military group with artillery and air support from regular Russian forces, the MOD announced.
The statement came hours after Wagner chief Evgeny Prigozhin announced on social media that his fighters had taken complete control of the city.
Ukraine denied that the city had fallen, however. Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar claimed that the statements about the capture of Artyomovsk were “premature.”
A salt mining city with a pre-conflict population of 72,000, Artyomovsk has been the stage of a bloody battle for many months as Russian forces nearly encircled it and methodically pushed the Ukrainian Army from the western suburbs. The city was largely destroyed during the fighting.
READ MORE: Key Donbass city captured – Wagner chief
Prigozhin warned earlier this month that his soldiers were taking heavy casualties due to ammunition shortages. He later said the situation with supplies had improved and that Wagner troops were clearing the last pockets of resistance.
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 22nd May 2023 : Key Donbass city fully liberated – Moscow.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
The Donbass Zugzwang | Chasov Yar Get Ready. Military Summary For 2023.05.21
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
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DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
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DPA WAR UPDATE
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THETI MAPPING UPDATE
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BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
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FREE RUSSIA UPDATE
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THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
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PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
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MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
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RYBAR UPDATE
Ukraine War Map, May 20th-21st.
M MAPPING UPDATE
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HS MAPPING
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HISTORY OF MAKUS UPDATE
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WEEB UNION UPDATE
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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
WESTERN WAR MODE MYOPIA & THE IMMINENT REVELATION OF MASSIVE DECEPTION
As Bakhmut falls to Russia’s Wagner Group and the regular Russian army we can see the mass denial of this fact being attempted across all western mainstream media. Almost any story will do in an attempt to deny the truth and present some deceptive facade to western populations in its place.
The truth about the fall of Bakhmut will percolate out eventually but like a patient waking from anaesthesia it is clearly hoped that a groggy western populace will hardly notice at that point. However, sooner or later there will be widespread incomprehension and disbelief combined as the situation in Ukraine proves to have a very different face to it than western audiences have been told.
A general ‘war mode’ mentality has prevailed in the West for many years now, in fact for almost two entire decades and the object of this attempt to obscure the facts which war mode always entails, has been Russia and its president.
Compared to the full blown war mode mentality present since Russia began its military operation in Ukraine it was been running at a relatively low, if consistent level to demonise both the Russian president and Russian state institutions from at least 2007. Since February 24th 2022 though it has been all-pervasive with mass self-inflicted myopia being a fixture among all western elites. Both the political and media elites have acted only to spread a totally fictional account of events in Ukraine, degrading their communication channels to the level of mental conditioning if not outright propaganda.
Those who continued to take it for granted that their mainstream news services were giving them a factual account of events in Ukraine are those who will experience the maximum disbelief and incomprehension within the next few weeks and months.
War mode, for those who are unfamiliar with the term, requires of all elites within a country at war, and indeed from most members of the public also (though this is not as possible now as in the past) a dedication to communicating only positive news about the nation or its allies and only negativity or no comment at all concerning the actions of the enemy.
Thus it has appeared that plucky little Ukraine with magnificently brave soldiers, courageously led by a noble and selfless president has been winning out against the main villain of the piece, slandered consistently since 2007, the Russian ogre, Putin.
Some of the above may have some substance to it here and there, though extremely little if truth be told. The more important point is that this leaves out an enormous part of the picture of events in Ukraine and also delivers a hugely false picture of present realities, future likelihoods and almost certain conclusion.
The situation in Ukraine is in fact not good at all for the forces that Kiev commands. Things are not going well and have not been going well since the start of Russia’s campaign in February 2022. That is, apart from a few minor, isolated and vastly overblown incidents that have played little conclusive either role at the time or will do in the final outcome.
Russia will have ejected, killed or captured all Ukrainian troops within the Donbass no later than a point three months from today and likely much sooner than this. With developments underway where Ukrainian troops are beginning to surrender in ever greater numbers and the most defensible city was taken by Russia in the last few days, the end is clearly near.
The remaining cities to be taken by Russia in the Donbass are not nearly as defensible as was Bakhmut.
There are rumours of great discontent regarding a number of factors within the Ukrainian high command which if true appear certain to grow. More and more inadequately men are being marshalled into the Ukrainian military and sent to the front lines as cannon fodder. Desperation is clearly growing as the interference of Zelensky and those around him with military affairs is causing losses through callous, cynical and incompetent decisions.
Meanwhile, instead of telling western audiences about any of this and most importantly the likely imminent loss of the entire Donbass region the West’s mass media falls completely silent on all but vacuous and false propagandising using fake positive narratives.
It appears, though this is only rumoured currently, that the advice on tactics being given by the USA and UK to the Ukrainian military command, has been extremely poor with flawed understanding of the Russian tactics of war. All the evidence points to western leaders pushing the Ukrainian authorities to throw as many troops into a hopeless counteroffensive as possible. Mass carnage would be the most likely result.
Western politicians need to somehow get themselves off the hook by saying they gave Ukraine everything to succeed. Zelensky and his people will then say that they were let down by those leaders in the West by not providing enough. These are the dynamics that will play themselves out as the facade of success by Ukraine crumbles in the face of the ever more obvious realities soon to emerge and dismay western audiences.
Rather than plucky Ukraine going from victory to victory as portrayed in every mainstream rifle and TV network across the West it has gone from one loss to another in recent months and is now facing total defeat, partially as a result of Russian military professionalism and partly through the massive campaign of deception engaged in by U.S. and British “leadership” and media elites and those of their European proxies.
