RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 09.02.2023
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.
*** ARE WESTERN STATE TERRORISTS SPONSORING UKRAINE? ***
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“Ukraine. What is the truth...?
Why won’t western media tell both sides…?”
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THE UNREPORTED ATROCITY IN LUGANSK, 2 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 particularly newsworthy in the western mainstream. Below it you can watch the CNN report which contradicts the lies the Ukrainian regime were concocting at the time to escape being identified as the perpetrator.
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Lead feature:
'The Duran' (333k subscribers):
Propaganda in the Ukrainian Proxy-War, w/ Noam Chomsky, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen.
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Latest update from Alex Christoforou of ‘The Duran’ (158k subscribers):
Wings for freedom, victory. Elensky tours London, Paris, Brussels. Hersh, Nord Stream sabotage. U/1
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (211k subscribers):
Ukraine CAUGHT using chemical weapons.
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Overthrowing Putin.
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'Garland Nixon' (44.7k subscribers):
US AND NORWAY ATTACKED EUROPE.
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‘Hindustan Times’ (5.15 million subscribers):
'Biden ordered Nord Stream bombing': US in a fix as new reveal sends shock waves | Details:
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Russia Today (RT) News.
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'Ryota Nakanishi ' (194 subscribers):
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Morning Briefing of The Ministry of Defense of Russia (February 9, 2023).
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'George Galloway' (245k subscribers):
INTERVIEW: First the US trade war with China, now the second Cold War begins over a burst balloon.
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'Hindustan Times' (5.15 million subscribers):
'Stuck in past': India lashes UNSC for being detached from current realties amid Russia-Ukraine war.
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'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' (211k subscribers):
Putin's Bakhmut TRAP, Ukraine Uses CH*MICAL WEAPONS.
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‘Redacted’ (1.69 million subscribers):
TERROR ATTACK on pipeline exposed and CONFIRMED, Putin's next move | Redacted w Clayton Morris.
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'Geopolitical Economy Report' with Ben Norton' (46.6k subscribers):
US blew up Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia to Germany, journalist Seymour Hersh reports.
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‘The Hill’ (1.54 million subscribers):
Roger Waters: Biden Is A 'WAR CRIMINAL' For Fueling Ukraine PROXY WAR, Provoking China.
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‘Garland Nixon’ (44.6k subscribers):
NORD STREAM BOMBSHELL - DETAILED SY HERSH ARTICLE IMPLICATES BIDEN NEOCONS.
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'Gonzalo Lira - Again' (66.6k subscribers):
2023.02.09 Confirmed: The Americans Destroyed Nordstream.
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'Reports on China' (41.9k subscribers):
BIDEN BLEW UP NORD STREAM: How America is fooling the world about China.
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‘Parrot TV' (1.64k subscribers):
FOREIGN POLICY REVIEW: WHO BLEW UP NORDSTREAM TWO?
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'John Mark Dougan' (46.1k subscribers):
Nordstream: I Was Right! My Whistleblower Told Me 4 MONTHS AGO! Remember? Let's TALK! You can call!
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‘Redacted’ (1.69 million subscribers):
Is Ukraine using chemical weapons? Looks that way!
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'Levan Gudadze' (3.62k subscribers):
Bakhmut, Drones, Fighters and tanks for Ukraine, Ruble, Russia-Iran-India trade - News from Russia.
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American people mostly unaware who’s really pushing war with Russia.
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‘George Galloway’ (245k subscribers):
MOATS has a million viewers and one of them has threatened to kill me. You can just switch off.
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THE DAY THE EARTH MOVED - MOATS Episode 211 with George Galloway.
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'FINANCE MAIL' (31.7k subscribers):
Scott Ritter: What's Really Happening In Russia? Russian Senator Say Russia Bluffed U.S From Start.
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Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom’ (91.5k subscribers):
Who in the government Demanded Twitter to suppress speech?
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‘BreakThrough News’ (145k subscribers):
The Ballooning War Drive Against China.
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'ShanghaiEye魔都眼' (128k subscribers):
Beijing: What NATO should do is abandon the Cold-War mentality and ideological prejudice.
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UK, US and Australia carry out China-focused air drills, but not tied to any recent events.
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'Tara Reade' (2.13k subscribers):
Johnny Miller: Is There a Path to Peace in Ukraine? Tara Reade @johnnyjmils @Readealexandra (clip).
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‘The Real News Network’ (661k subscribers):
The dark truths WikiLeaks revealed w/Stefania Maurizi | The Chris Hedges Report.
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'The Jimmy Dore Show' (1.14 million subscribers):
Roger Waters Smeared By Pink Floyd Bandmate Over Ukraine.
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'The Convo Couch' (47.2k subscribers):
Roger Waters Calls for Peace, Nicaragua Deports Prisoner Traitors to DC, Peru’s Protests Continue.
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‘BBC Newsnight’ from 8 years ago. (721k subscribers):
Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine:
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‘The Real News Network’ from 5 years ago. (661k subscribers)
Max Blumenthal: US is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
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‘VICE’ from 4 years ago. (16.6 million subscribers):
Out of Control: Ukraine's Rogue Militias.
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‘The Real News Network’ from 4 years ago. (661k subscribers):
Israel Is Arming Ukraine's Blatantly Neo-Nazi Militia the Azov Battalion.
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'Alexandre Guerreiro' (6.45k subscribers):
Jornalista dos EUA revela quem destruiu o Nord Stream.
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'Международное радио "Беларусь"' (4.1k subscribers):
За телеведущим Fox News следили (!) и собирались оклеветать за планы взять интервью у Путина.
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'Sahra Wagenknecht' (637k subscribers):
#Verhandlungen #Ukraine #Russland #Krieg #Frieden #Waffenlieferungen #Maischberger
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'acTVism Munich' (110k subscribers):
China-USA: Ballon-Zwischenfall & der neue kalte Krieg | Mit Prof. Kuznick.
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'Liu Sivaya' (141k subscribers):
WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME: why is Syria helped by fewer countries than Turkey? | liusivaya.
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Article from Russia Today (RT) - 9th February 2023:
US behind Nord Stream sabotage – legendary NYT journalist.
Washington “took out” the Russian gas pipelines, Seymour Hersh has claimed.
The Nord Stream pipelines were destroyed last September by the US in a covert operation, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has claimed. The legendary reporter made the bombshell revelation in an article posted to his newly launched blog on Substack on Wednesday.
The explosives were planted at the pipelines back in June 2022 by US Navy divers under the guise of the BALTOPS 22 NATO exercise, Hersh reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning.
The journalist noted that he had reached out to the White House and CIA for comment, with both firmly rejecting the claim that the US “took out” the pipelines as “utterly false.”
The bombs were detonated three months later on September 26 with a remote signal sent by a sonar buoy. The buoy was dropped near the Nord Stream pipelines by a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane, according to the report.
The operation came to fruition following months of back-and-forth between the White House, CIA, and military, with officials focusing on how to leave no trace of US involvement in the attack. The planning process began back in December 2021, when a special task force was created with the direct participation of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
“The Navy proposed using a newly commissioned submarine to assault the pipeline directly. The Air Force discussed dropping bombs with delayed fuses that could be set off remotely. The CIA argued that whatever was done, it would have to be covert. Everyone involved understood the stakes,” the report read.
The source told Hersh that everybody involved understood the operation was not some “kiddie stuff” but was actually an “an act of war.” Throughout “all of this scheming” certain officials urged the White House to drop the idea entirely. “Some working guys in the CIA and the State Department were saying, ‘Don’t do this. It’s stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out,’” according to the source.
Originally, the explosives were to have a 48-hour timer and were set to be planted by the end of BALTOPS22, Hersh reported, citing the same source. The two-day window, however, was ultimately deemed to be too close to the end of the exercise by the White House, which ordered the task force to come up with an on-demand method of detonating them. This ultimately turned out to be the sonar buoy.
The administration of President Joe Biden has been “focused” on jeopardizing the Nord Stream pipelines – initially through sanctions, and, ultimately, by direct sabotage – seeing it as key to swaying Europe to its cause amid the then-looming conflict in Ukraine, Hersh noted.
“As long as Europe remained dependent on the pipelines for cheap natural gas, Washington was afraid that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia,” he wrote.
Moscow provided a similar take on the incident shortly after the blasts, branding them a “terrorist attack” and stating that the US was the nation that benefited most from it, by accelerating Europe’s attempts to wean itself off of Russian gas.
Throughout his career, Hersh has reported on numerous explosive stories, including war crimes by the US military and high-profile political scandals. Exposing the My Lai massacre by US troops in Vietnam scored the journalist the Pulitzer Prize in 1970. Other notable stories Hersh reported on include the Watergate scandal, the CIA illegal domestic spying, as well as the American military's torture and abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
LATEST UPDATE FROM DIMA OF THE MILITARY SUMMARY CHANNEL (84.7k subscribers):
Ukraine. Military Summary And Analysis 2023.02.09
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KEEP IT SECRET NEWS CHANNEL (1.41k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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'NWE WAR REPORTS' (30.1k subscribers):
Wagner Troops Overrun Ukrainian Defenses North of Bakhmut. Paraskoviivka/Krasna Hora Encircled.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA (53.7k subscribers):
[ Bakhmut Offensive ] Bigger & more aggressive pincer developing ard Bakhmut City | Updated Analysis.
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LATEST UPDATE FROM 'DPA War’ (20.9k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE BY THETI MAPPING (19.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘WAR IN UKRAINE’ (35.6k subscribers):
Ukraine: military situation Feb 8, 2023.
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LATEST UPDATE BY ‘BALKAN MAPPING’ (135k subscribers):
Ukraine [9 Feb 2023] 'Today' - Bakhmut Advances.
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LATEST UPDATE BY THE ‘MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS NETWORK’ (57k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘RYBAR’:
Rybar military highlights of special military operation in Ukraine 08.02.2023.
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LATEST REPORT FROM GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES (195k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST REPORT FROM VREVELATIONS: (294 subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM ‘M MAPPING’ (4.4k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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LATEST UPDATE FROM WEEB UNION (56.3k subscribers):
Recap 01/02/23-09/02/23.
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LATEST REPORT FROM 'DJUKI SAN’ (38.5k subscribers):
No update posted so far today
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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
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THE WESTERN WORLD - AN UTTERLY MALIGNANT EMPIRE OF LIES
How long will the entire western elite refuse to acknowledge their crucial role in driving Russia into the corner from which it reluctantly sprang on February 24th last year?
For almost nine years Russia put faith in the sincerity of successive Ukrainian governments and the representatives of both Germany and France, that they genuinely were working toward the autonomy promised for the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine.
There was no willingness to sit down with Russia to thrash out a new security architecture for Europe that included Russian concerns. There was an equal unwillingness to contemplate NATO withdrawing from Russia's borders or ending the commitment to take both Ukraine and Georgia into NATO.
And all this while the civilian populations of the Donbass region were being bombarded by the Ukrainian military and Ukraine's militant extremist forces. Over 15,000 died over the almost nine year period. While all this was going on, scarcely reported at all except in vague terms that newscasters clearly hoped would convey the idea that it was all Russia's fault... Zelensky stated that he wished to regain Ukraine's nuclear status.
Further, the OSCE saw and reported a sharp uptick in the bombardment of the Donbass villages, towns and cities from the Ukrainian side in January and early February of last year. Russia has exhausted all the good options open to it and faced a Ukraine constantly building its military forces and becoming a de fact NATO member. With Ukraine finally stating it no longer had any interest in the Minsk Accords, i.e. that it had been a scam from the start and that it saw no peaceful path before it.
What was Russia to do...simply wait for the military assault that was clearly coming on the people of the Donbass? This it could not do. And it must be suspected this was the western powers' plan all along. The 'Empire of Lies' has got its way. But things are NOT going its way and it will be made to bitterly regret its terminally cynical Machiavellian plan.
Nightly we hear the tone-deaf and terminally myopic narratives being spun, cynically spreading one lie after another to demonise Russia and escape the responsibility western elites bear.
Looking back we can now see exactly why the fact of civilian deaths in their thousands were hidden from western populations, or, if not completely hidden, hiding their cause, the malignant actions of the Ukrainian forces directed by successive evil Ukrainian regimes.
The lies are told by tame academics within newsrooms whose editors and producers have prostituted themselves to the single narratives and talking points which they know they must stick to if they wish to keep their jobs. Only one-side must be constantly and unwaveringly told concerning Ukraine. The Russian “devils” must be made to look as evil as possible. As in Syria it must be said that they target schools, civilian dwellings, hospitals, museums and whatever else will make a good demonising headline or sound byte. Lies, lies and ever more lies.
No mention is to be made of the Ukrainian forces setting up their bases and weaponry in schools and hospital blocks, nothing is to be said about the notices put on each door stating that those inside must vacate their homes immediately if the Ukrainian army needs them to fire from. Nothing is said about those wearing swastika tattoos, nothing about the copies of ‘Mein Kampf’ they read or the daubings of swastikas on every gravestone in Jewish cemeteries. Media mouths must remain shut regarding the torture, rape and murder perpetrated by the Ukrainian militias. All must be hidden from view. The genocidal intent of the ultra-nationalists who despise all who speak Russian, whether they live within Ukraine or not and whose attitude is that they should all die or be driven out, babies, children, mothers, fathers or grandparents, all candidates for elimination for the glory of Ukraine.
All must be whitewashed to aid the rabid hatred of only one side in this conflict, the side that was pushed into the narrowest corner imaginable, told to shut up, forget all concerns about your security and simply obey every directive from the West. Even when Russia told the republics they must stay within Ukraine and work toward gaining autonomy and working for eight years to achieve this only to be told it was all only a ploy to give Ukraine time to re-arm… Russia was supposed to stand for this. With deaths reported each day among the civilian population of eastern Ukraine, deaths that continue to this day, STILL unreported anywhere in the West.
If you live anywhere in the western world or in one of the nations whose political and media elites have sold their souls to the political elites of the USA, UK and EU… please recognise the truth, awaken from the conditioning that comes at you daily from every mainstream media source and know precisely and exactly now where you live, within an utterly malignant Empire of Lies.
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