RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 10.06.2023
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 Azerbaijan for the next four 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 our daily updates.
*** THE UKRAINIAN COUNTEROFFENSIVE IS A MASSIVE FAILURE ***
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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
Putin Confirms Ukr Offensive, Big Ukr Losses; Leo2s, Bradleys Destroyed, Realists Call Peace Talks.
ALEX CHRISTOFOROU of THE DURAN
Trudeau in Kiev. Leopards destroyed. Putin, more than 3 to 1. Elensky curse hits Boris again. U/1
THE DURAN
Security guarantees, then Polish troops, and finally US troops.
GARLAND NIXON
UKRAINE'S SUICIDE OFFENSIVE COLLAPSE.
SCOTT RITTER
Ep. 72: Ask the Inspector (Just back from Russia!).
DANNY HAIPHONG
The EU DESTROYED Its Economy for Ukraine.
SCOTT RITTER
Scott Ritter on Russian arms performance.
EMIL COSMAN
Weak Counteroffensive. Ukrainian Troops Made 6 Failed Attempts to Break Russian Lines.
U.S. is exasperated by Ukraine's failed counteroffensive. US Congress wants ATACMS sent to Ukraine NOW.
Video shows Russians decimating Leopard tanks and US Bradleys in Ukraine. Delusional invincibility.
Russia announces it "broke out" of US' Plantation. Russia will "never again" accept US rules. Lavrov.
REDACTED
"Everyone has been evacuated, no one is left " - Patrick Lancaster.
GEORGE GALLOWAY
The lies of the leaders over dam attack.
THE JIMMY DORE SHOW
NY Times’ Pathetic Whitewashing Of Nazis In Ukraine!
JACKSON HINKLE
"Ukraine Provoked Russia Into War" - RFK Jr.
Ukrainian Counteroffensive ELIMINATED By Russian Bear Trap, EU In Recession.
Tucker Carlson EXPOSES Ukraine Kakhovka Dam Lies.
Pro-Ukraine Congressman SCHOOLED By Journalist.
KIM IVERSEN
Press Freedom Under Attack: Journalist Kit Klarenberg Detained in London As A “Suspected Terrorist”.
HINDUSTAN TIMES
Russia Pledges to Punish Zelensky as Ukraine Uses British Missile to Attack Kherson Shelter Home.
Russia onslaught brings Kyiv to its knees; Ukraine losses over 1200 troops in just one day | Watch:
Putin Reveals Date of Russian Nuke Deployment in Belarus; Big Dare After Attack on Russian Cities.
How Iran Is Helping Putin 'Terrorise' Ukraine | 'Spooked' Biden Admin's Big Reveal On Drones.
Russia To Face F-16s in Ukraine Soon? Big Claim By NATO Nation's Top Ex-Commander.
Huge Fireball, Mushroom Cloud Erupt as Russia Bombs Massive Ukrainian Ammunition centre | Watch:
EU Spooked By Pro-Putin Wave in Member Nations; Says 'It Will Have Disastrous impact on Ukraine War'.
Russian Forces Sniff Out Ukrainian Drone; Thwart Bid to Attack Residential Building on its Soil.
Biden Washes Hands Off Ukraine's Failed Counteroffensive; 'Have Done Everything We Could..' | Watch:
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS
American Bradley Gets Hit by RPG in Ukraine War.
THE GRAYZONE
Sandbagged and dammed - The Grayzone Friday live.
RICHARD MEDHURST
Iran Unveils Its First Hypersonic Missile | Guess Who’s Not Happy?
VANESSA BEELEY
German Special Envoy for Syria tweets craven ISIS tribute.
New US military base in Syria as Syria and Russia threaten US occupation.
COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR
Explains Ukraine Russia War Latest Updates.
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
Is Russia's Putin CRAZY?
Dr. STEVE TURLEY
John Bolton's Plan FAILS!
DUE DISSIDENCE
Roger Waters Issues DEFIANT Response to Smear Campaign.
CGTN
Xi Jinping urges troops to forge 'great wall of steel' in guarding Chinese borders.
SMART SILVER STACKER
Saudi Arabia Threatens End Of Petrodollar - (Dedollarization & Silver).
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER
Will NUKES Prevent WWIII?
ASIAN QUICKTAKE
Shaking US Foundations! Saudi Arabia's Entry into BRICS Signals a Shift in Global Power丨BRICS+丨NDB.
ALEXANDRE GUERREIRO
A contra-ofensiva da Ucrânia está a deixar a Rússia ainda mais confiante.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
PROFESSOR JOHN J MEARSHEIMER: WHERE IS THE UKRAINE WAR GOING?
Article published by Russia Today (RT) - 10th June 2023:
Kiev lost a thousand troops and dozens of tanks in one day – Moscow.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine incurred the losses as it pushed against Russian defenses, the military has claimed.
Ukrainian forces have lost up to 1,240 troops and 39 tanks during one 24-hour period, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported in its latest daily update on Friday. This adds to the heavy toll moscow claims Kiev suffered during a week when it is believed to have launched a long-expected counteroffensive against Russia.
The Ministry added that 30 infantry fighting vehicles, 38 armored vehicles, as well as a dozen pieces of artillery and other military hardware, some of it provided by Kiev’s Western sponsors, were also destroyed.
Two Ukrainian military jets, two UK-provided Storm Shadow cruise missiles, and 13 drones were intercepted and shut down during one day, the report added.
Russian and Western media have concluded that Ukraine has launched a major push against its opponent this week, trying to capitalize on the trove of weapons supplied by the US and its allies. Ukrainian officials have, nonetheless, offered conflicting reports on whether the operation has started.
Supporters of the country expressed hope that it could score significant territorial gains using Western-produced main battle tanks, which it didn’t have previously. The Russian military reported repelling a series of Ukrainian attacks over the week and said Kiev was paying a heavy price for probing the Russian defenses in various parts of the frontline.
READ MORE: Biden’s reputation hinges on Kiev’s counteroffensive – Politico
Western nations have pledged to support Kiev for as long as it takes to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia. But media reports indicate that the scale of future military assistance would depend on whether Ukrainian troops manage to deliver battlefield successes. The White House is “anxiously watching” the action, since the reputation of President Joe Biden is at stake in it, Politico said of the Ukrainian operation.
MAPPING/ANALYSIS CHANNELS
* Updates will be added here as and when they become available.
MILITARY SUMMARY UPDATE
Russian Spring | The Ukrainian-NATO Forces Prepares More Attacks. Military Summary For 2023.06.10
The Results Of The Night Storm. Military Summary And Analysis For 2023.06.10
NWE WAR REPORTS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA UPDATE
UKRAINE OFFENDED BY DPA; BECOMES MORE OFFENSIVE; How Ukr should fight? DPA imparts. | UKR OPS REPORT.
UKRAINE NEEDS TO RETHINK HOW TO FIGHT; Zaporizhzhia Offensive dwindled to just south of M.Tokmachka.
DPA WAR UPDATE
UKRAINE DOUBLE DOWN - on Zaporizhzhia, Avdiivka, Bakhmut fronts [ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 471 (9/6).
THETI MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
BALKAN MAPPING UPDATE
Zaporizhia Front Update [10 June 2023].
THE RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE UPDATE
No update posted so far today
KEEP IT SECRET NEWS
Ukraine War, Rybar Map and War Footage, June 9, 2023 Leopards and Bradley Tanks Burn in Ukraine.
American Bradley Gets Hit by RPG in Ukraine War.
PROJECT GREAT UPDATE
No update posted so far today
MILITARY AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS UPDATE
No update posted so far today
RYBAR UPDATE
No update posted so far today
M MAPPING UPDATE
No update posted so far today
HS MAPPING
Russian Forces Repelled All Ukranian Attacks l Ukranian Counteroffensive Failed In Every Direction.
WEEB UNION UPDATE
Turning Point?
Ukraine's Summer Offensive Stage 1 | Full Update Week 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.
IS ZELENSKY BEING FED THE SAME B.S. “INFORMING” WESTERN MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
Some months ago Erdogan of Turkey provided an insight into Zelensky’s current mindset. Apparently Zelensky told Erdogan in a private conversation that he feels the people around him are misleading him.
This should not surprise anyone as since 2014 when the coup by insurrection to remove the democratically-elected president and government of Ukraine it has essentially become against the law to say certain things.
As with the situation which prevailed in the USA after the election of Trump in 2016 it progressively became a crime to say anything concerning Russia that was in the least positive. Those who did and who were prominent figures in any way would certainly come in for huge criticism, were in general ostracised and if their critics had their way, cancelled.
The process described above has been far more widespread in western Ukraine and via state policies and changes in the law far deeper with ever more draconian punishments applied. Radio and TV stations have even been closed down and the leader of the main opposition party jailed for the crime of being less disparaging of Russia than was deemed necessary by the state.
As in the USA these processes have resulted in a general silence regarding anything approaching Russia that is not wholly negative and since the beginning of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine this has become massively reinforced. In addition of course it has become the norm to big up Zelensky, Ukraine in general and Ukrainian military success. Even when the Russian military made major gains such as capturing cities any mention of this has been grudging and heavily embroidered to suit the favoured narratives which big up the Ukrainian side.
One can only imagine the effect of this in Kiev where to speak in ANY way that is positive toward Russia can get you violently attacked if not killed outright. Think of the Russophobia which exists in the United States and then multiply that by your factor of choice. Do you think for a moment that officials around Zelensky tell him the bare facts? Do you think any military official close to the Ukrainian high command is going to risk demotion or worse by doing so?
The fable of the emperor who has no clothes has been appropriate for a great many situations in Ukraine since 2014. But the paucity of any figures willing to put their necks on the line like the unwitting actions of the innocent boy in the fable must certainly be close to zero and more likely than not to be at zero.
This is nothing new of course. For years the U.S. war in Afghanistan was reported to be going along just fine, or if not just fine at least the Taliban were being contained, Kabul was doing well, democracy was being delivered along with freedom for the Afghan people. The scandal of telling your superiors what they most wanted to hear and them delivering it up the line in similar fashion to their own superiors who informed the various departments of government and the president himself, is well known.
Add to all this the condition known as ‘war mode’ where the enemy MUST always be portrayed in the worst light while your side is ‘brave’, ‘fearless’ and always, somehow “winning” even when almost all the facts reflect the opposite. The “good guys” ALWAYS win, don’t they? We know this from the countless products of Hollywood and its imitators across the world. Only sometimes the “good guys” may be the bad guys (think of those Nazi belt buckles emblazoned with ‘Gott Mit Uns’ on them).
The collective West in the figures of the most prominent political figures imbue the notion of exemplary correctness, the self-awarded or deity-granted correctness of conduct on all possible issues, policies and actions. These political elites of the West consider that they and everything about their views and their societies are exemplary, superior and exceptional. And of course that those who oppose them in any way are not and are therefore enemies of all that is good, right and proper.
Zelensky and those around him also have so much invested in these concepts that the thought of defeat or even the mention of defeat and with it the mention of any Russian gains against them is anathema.
So is it any wonder that Zelensky talks of people around him not telling him the truth and indeed misleading him? Hasn’t he himself been the author of this milieu of manufactured “reality” with almost his every statement? What else could he possibly expect?
For the populations of the western world all this has had an additional knock-in effect. Western mass media also assumed a strong ‘war mode’ stance in regard to events in Ukraine and as with the case of Syria where the pro-government side could not have any news relayed, so in regard to Ukraine only the news of Ukrainian officials and activists could be relayed and nothing from the ‘other side’.
That there remains a sizeable number of people within the civilian populations of the West that consider their mainstream news outlets as truthful on what is going on in Ukraine is quite amazing. In recent memory, the examples of mainstream deceit have been many and it is not even necessary to name them. So the notion that the newspapers and TV news channels are delivering the objective facts on Ukraine is quite astounding to conceive of. Where have these people been for the last almost two decades?
Believing bullshit, whether that comes about through naivety, some misguided notion of patriotism or sheer hatred-induced wishful thinking, in essence comes down to this, it equates to encouraging blindness. And I would posit with some confidence now that Zelensky has been in a state of virtual blindness since those days when Boris Johnson and Joe Biden convinced him to call a halt to all peace negotiations with Russia.
However, the truth is now becoming undeniable. No matter how many times a day others brainwash you with positive thinking and “facts” regarding surefire Ukraine victory and Russian defeat, a little some of actuality begins to permeate the belief bubble you exist within if you are as deeply deluded as Zelensky. The blandishments about how well Ukraine is doing will no doubt continue without limit. But even a bullshit-permeated individual such as Zelensky appears to be will, I am sure, notice some tell-tale signs in expressions, unconscious ticks and certain eye movements that all is not quite as it seems to be with things going as seriously wrong as they are now.
The long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive is going very badly with massive numbers killed and some of the most modern tanks available in the West destroyed. All for nothing, the Ukrainian military failed to breach Russia’s first line of defence. Over one thousand Ukrainian troops lost their lives in one single day. And the most built-up Russian defences are still to come.
Zelensky may be just starting to wake up to all this. How long before most of Europe and the USA do also?
IS ZELENSKY BEING FED THE SAME B.S. "INFORMING" WESTERN MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
