RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.08.2024
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.
*** EXISTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES THREATEN IN GAZA & UKRAINE ***
“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.
COLLECTIVE WEST-UKRAINE <-> RUSSIA
SHAMELESS WESTERN MEDIA IGNORED THIS:
Airstrike in Lugansk - 10 Year Anniversary.
The Line is Breaking AGAIN - Huge Russian Gains Towards Vovcha Line.
ALEXANDER MERCOURIS of THE DURAN: Zelensky Doubles Down, 1/3rd Ukr Combat Battalions Kursk, Visits Sumy; Donbass Defences Break.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN: Scholz clueless about Kursk. Pavel, Nord Stream legit target. Elensky, peace deal land swap.
Both Sides Double Down For A Game of Chicken | Up To 1/3 Of Ukraine's Army in Northern Front.
Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Bryansk Region repelled – governor.
The incursion has been thwarted by border guards and regular troops, Aleksandr Bogomaz has said.
Russian forces have repelled a cross-broder attack by Ukrainian troops on Bryansk Region, Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz has said.
The federal subject is located directly to the west of Russia’s Kursk Region, part of which remains under the control of the Ukrainian army following an incursion earlier this month.
According to Bogomaz, the Ukrainian raid was foiled on Wednesday by Russian border guards and regular troops. “The enemy came under fire,” the official said, adding that “the situation is stable and under control.”
While the Russian Defense Ministry has not commented on the matter, Telegram news channel Mash reported that the Ukrainians had tried to break through near the village of Zabrama, approximately 30km from Russia’s border with Belarus. More than 200 soldiers participated in the raid, but retreated after taking “serious losses,” Mash wrote.
The Russian military blogger writing under the name Dva Mayora, meanwhile, reported that the number of Ukrainian servicemen who had taken part in the attack numbered at least 20.
READ MORE: Ukrainian troops massacred civilians in Kursk – Russian volunteer (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
In their largest cross-border incursion to have targeted territory which was part of Russia before 2022, Ukrainian armored units invaded Kursk Region on August 6, seizing several villages and the city of Sudzha.
Kiev said that it was aiming to establish a “buffer zone” on Russian soil. Moscow responded by evacuating civilians from the affected areas and deploying additional forces there, while also striking targets in Ukraine’s Sumy Region, which was being used as a staging ground.
According to Kremlin officials, at least 31 civilians have been killed in Kursk Region and 143 have been wounded so far. The Russian Defense Ministry estimates that around 4,400 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or wounded during the operation.
Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Bryansk Region repelled – governor.
LARRY JOHNSON (EX-CIA INTELLIGENCE ANALYST): Kursk Invasion a Disaster for Whom?
SEBASTIAN SAS: Russia Might End The SMO And Declare War.
PROFESSOR GLENN DIESEN: Is the invasion of Kursk a success or a failure? - Diesen, Schulman, and Zalmayev on CGTN.
PROFESSOR GLENN DIESEN: The great risk of invading Kursk - Prof Glenn Diesen on Al Jazeera.
PROFESSOR GLENN DIESEN - COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: NATO invades Russia?
DANNY HAIPHONG - ANDREI MARTYANOV: PUTIN'S KURSK REVENGE DEVASTATES UKRAINE, NATO WILL CEASE TO EXIST.
GEORGE GALLOWAY: HIMARS HIT RUSSIA - MOATS with George Galloway Ep 371.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: Zelensky's Days are Numbered.
HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Has NATO Gone Completely Insane?
BORZZIKMAN: NATO on FIRE: Russian Saboteurs Have Destroyed NATO Facilities in Poland and Romania.
ANDREI MARTYANOV: Russia Obliterates Ukrainian Forces and Seizes Territory in Shocking Advance.
RAY MCGOVERN (EX-CIA INTELLIGENCE ANALYST): How Much REAL Expertise on Russia Exists in the West Today?
DMITRY ORLOV: Going to War with Russia? Only the Craziest Would Even Think About It!
Flying deep into Russia, 45 Ukrainian drones shot down.
Ukraine Loses Over 700 Soldiers in Fights With Russia's Battlegroup Yug - MoD.
Russia's Battlegroup Yug eliminated more than 700 Ukrainian servicemen over the past 24 hours, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Wednesday.
"The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 700 servicemen, three vehicles [in battles with the Yug group]," the MoD said in a statement.
Battlegroup Tsentr liberated the settlement of Zhelannoye in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and repelled six counterattacks, eliminating over 630 Ukrainian troops, the statement read, adding that Battlegroup Zapad repelled six counterattacks and eliminated up to 470 Ukrainian troops.
Kiev lost up to 130 fighters in battles with Battlegroup Vostok and up to 100 soldiers in battles with Battlegroup Sever, the ministry added.
Ukraine Loses Over 700 Soldiers in Fights With Russia's Battlegroup Yug - MoD.
ISRAEL-WEST <-> PALESTINE-IRAN-SYRIA-IRAQ-LEBANON-YEMEN-VENEZUELA-DPRK
Gaza students study online amid rubble as airstrikes destroy universities and threaten their future.
‘No warning’ before Gaza City school strike : AJE correspondent.
HELGA ZEPP-LAROUCHE: Israel's Gamble That Could Ignite Chaos.
UN Says 90% of Gaza's Population Displaced.
Hezbollah 'Inflicts Big Blows' On IDF; Israeli Military Base Hit, Shtola Settlements On Fire.
Israeli Ship Adrift': Houthi Strikes Spark Blasts, Fire On 'Sounion' | Biggest 'Success' Since June.
‘Israel Has Committed Genocide In Gaza’ Says Former US Marine Kenneth O'Keefe.
American Doctors Call For End To US Support For Israel's War On Gaza At DNC.
Gaza: the elephant in the room at the US Democratic Convention, says Marwan Bishara.
USA
THE DURAN: US elections and economic policy w/ Chris Martenson (Live).
USA: KIM IVERSEN: What Would American Communism Look Like? Radical Plan to Transform America.
KIM IVERSEN: From TikTok to the American Communist Party: Why Young Influencers Embrace Marxism.
US Economy Adds 818,000 Fewer Jobs Than Previously Reported.
EMIL COSMAN: Pelosi ousted Biden. The Party of "Threats, Division, Hate?" The Dem Party. Who voted for Kamala?
MULTIPOLARITY - RUSSIA-CHINA / BRICS
China ready to join Russia for cooperation in emerging areas - Chinese Premier Li Qiang.
BRIAN BERLETIC of THE NEW ATLAS: China's Naval Power Surpasses US - US Geopolitical Reach Exceeds its Industrial Grasp.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
LIU SIVAYA: UCRANIA PAGARÁ POR ESTO: ATAQUE SIN PRECEDENTES CONTRA MOSCÚ | 11 DRONES ATACAN LA CAPITAL DE RUSIA.
EXPATS IN RUSSIA
SAM'S RUSSIAN ADVENTURES: New Russian Immigration Rules Q&A.
MAPPING CHANNEL UPDATES
Both Sides Double Down For A Game of Chicken | Up To 1/3 Of Ukraine's Army in Northern Front.
West front in Kursk collapsing; Pokrovsk trembles | Ukraine War Summary / SITREP (Situation Report).
Collapses everywhere~ Kursk vs Pokrovsk | Ukraine War Frontline Changes Report.
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.
KURSK VS. DONBASS - WHO’S WINNING THIS WAR?
Appearances can be deceptive. Especially if a facade is expertly laid before western audiences by a mainstream news media that has nothing to gain in telling the truth.
While the entire western world focuses on what the Ukrainians are doing in Russia’s Kursk region where they have taken control of a large number of small villages and one town of some 6,000 souls the Russian military is achieving important strategic goals in the Donbass.
In a time when Ukrainian successes have been few and far between it is natural that the incursion into Russia is making the headlines across the NATO nations that comprise its support group. Only those paying sparse attention to detail can be unaware by now that Russia is in fact fighting a NATO force in Kursk, if not sheep-dipped NATO troops themselves then a Ukrainian force that has been brought up to NATO standard lately. Taking villages where the opposition is mainly civilian is not too onerous a task for such a force.
In comparison with what has faced the Ukranians till now, across the line of contact in the Donbass Russia has confronted fortified structures and defensive lines in depth built since 2014 when the president and government of Ukraine were overthrown, much to the delight of all western political and media elites. Those structures have allowed the Ukrainian military to pour shells and missiles into the civilian-populated hamlets, villages, towns and cities of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions of the Donbass ever since that 2014 coup on Maidan Square in Kiev. Now the Russian military are taking those fortified lines down.
While the Ukrainian troops raid and loot supermarkets, spend their time throwing down Russian flags and putting up Ukrainian ones and occasionally shoot and kill civilians Russian troops have been taking significant territory and have just taken the large town of Niu York (now in the process of being renamed). The major cities of Toretsk and Pokrovsk will be next to fall. Toretsk is one of the most heavily fortified cities in the part of the Donbass still held by the Ukrainians. Russian troops entered its suburbs this week and it can only be a matter of time before it succumbs to their occupation.
The Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has slowed down significantly in recent days. The toll of dead and wounded among the Ukrainian forces runs from 1,500 at the lower estimate to 5,000. The path of the Ukrainian raiding parties to the north is now well and truly blocked. This was the direction that it was clear they wanted to move speedily in in order to reach and capture the Kursk nuclear power plant. That road is now well and truly blocked. In view of this the Ukrainians are attempting to expand to the west and east, but with very limited success. Meanwhile ever more Russian forces are gathering to expel them from Russian soil.
In the Donbass Russia is threatening the extremely important logistical hub that is Pokrovsk. Every day brings the Russian military ever close to their target. The Ukrainian military is fleeing before them hoping to establish better defensive position to the west. It will avail them nothing. Russia is operating to the strategy that has worked well for them thus far, that is the tactic of inexorable slow attrition. The Russian military high command have made sure that the entire 1,000km plus battleground is kept in coordination with all logistical resources in place along with enough troops to maintain them and the territory taken. The Ukrainians by contrast have applied a haphazard strategy that cannot possibly bring similar results.
Zelensky and those who take their command from him play the media game, looking for one piece of theatre after another hoping to impress their western sponsors into shelling out more of their taxpayers’ hard won cash. This has worked well up until recently when coffers and arsenals have started to run dry. Only in the last few days we have heard from Germany that it has come to the end of the road regarding emptying its state treasury into the Ukrainian money pit. The Kursk incursion is in part yet another piece of staged performance art from Zelensky and his compliant new commander, Syrsky. Like all the previous stagings the present one will provide only limited and temporary success while causing thousands of Ukrainian deaths and the destruction of military vehicles that will soon not be replaced in the same numbers by their sponsors.
While Kiev struggles to find men on the street to manhandle to the front as cannon-fodder Russia has again seen a surge in volunteers enthusiastic about receiving training in the Russian military before helping rid their nation of the recent infestation of unwelcome Ukrainians. An increasingly poorly-trained Ukrainian force will face them, one with a very limited supply of weaponry and munitions. The Russian military industrial complex is running at high gear and it can be expected that very soon the Ukrainians will pay dearly with an especially powerful and widespread missile attack all across what is left of Ukraine.
Who is winning? Clearly not the clown in Kiev, his forced are being whittled down in their thousands daily while Russia speeds on by their corpses to take ever more land and the important towns and cities that are about to fall to them within the next few weeks and months. While Zelensky fools himself and his western paymasters into endless dreams of victory the reality is that all diversion of attention toward Kursk will provide the emptiest of Pyrrhic victories possible… ultimately no victory at all. In fact a catastrophic defeat.
