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Western Media Confirming Russia Solidifying Gains in Eastern Ukraine Donbas Region
The Conservative Treehouse ^ | May 29, 2022 | Sundance

Posted on 05/29/2022 12:56:50 PM PDT by SoConPubbie

The Associated Press [HERE] and more importantly the U.S. Intel Community outlet, the Washington Post [HERE], are beginning to change direction in their narration of the war in Ukraine.

Both sources of information are starting to position Eastern Ukraine as a lost cause, with the Washington Post giving specific examples of conscripted Ukraine fighters who are abandoning the effort in the donbas region. As noted, “after three months of war, this company of 120 men is down to 54 because of deaths, injuries and desertions. The volunteers were civilians before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, and they never expected to be dispatched to one of the most dangerous front lines in eastern Ukraine.”

The Ukraine commander, Serhi Lapko and one of his lieutenants, Vitaliy Khrus, “retreated with members of their company this week to a hotel away from the front. There, both men spoke to The Washington Post on the record, knowing they could face a court-martial and time in military prison.” Together, Lapko and Khrus describe the essential elements of a fragmented Ukraine fighting force up against a committed Russian military advance.

Even the Washington Post admits the Ukraine central government is desperate to push morale boosting propaganda which seems constructed from the efforts of the U.S. State Dept, specifically the intelligence community within it. “Videos of assaults on Russian tanks or positions are posted daily on social media. Artists are creating patriotic posters, billboards and T-shirts. The postal service even released stamps commemorating the sinking of a Russian warship in the Black Sea.”

These examples are targeted toward a western audience and likely not being carried out by independent Ukraine government operation in Kyiv. Promoting the image of Ukraine is a construct of the U.S. state dept and U.S. intelligence.

The global impression of Ukraine must remain elevated to continue the U.S. proxy war against Russia. However, as noted, the WaPo is starting to shift the goal posts and expectations away from a Russian defeat in the donbas region.

Most notably within paragraphs like this you can see the purposeful shift. “Lapko and Khrus’s concerns were echoed recently by a platoon of the 115th Brigade 3rd Battalion, based nearby in the besieged city of Severodonetsk. In a video uploaded to Telegram on May 24, and confirmed as authentic by an aide to Haidai, volunteers said they will no longer fight because they lacked proper weapons, rear support and military leadership.”

[…] Ukraine’s military rebutted the volunteers’ claims in their own video posted online, saying the “deserters” had everything they needed to fight: “They thought they came for a vacation,” one service member said. “That’s why they left their positions.”

Hours after The Post interviewed Lapko and Khrus, members of Ukraine’s military security service arrived at their hotel and detained some of their men, accusing them of desertion. The men contend that they were the ones who were deserted. (read more)

The Associated Press story flows in a similar line to the WaPo narrative; however, the AP must maintain the Western Government slant:

[…] Russia has intensified efforts to capture the cities of Sievierodonetsk and nearby Lysychansk, which are the last major areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk.

Luhansk Gov. Serhii Haidai reported that Ukrainian fighters repelled an assault on Sievierodonetsk but Russian troops still pushed to encircle them. He later said Russian forces had seized a hotel on the city’s outskirts, damaged 14 high-rise buildings and were fighting in the streets with Ukrainian forces.

[…] Mariupol’s port has reportedly resumed operations after Russian forces finished clearing mines in the Azov Sea. Russian state news agency Tass reported that a vessel bound for Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia entered the port early Saturday.

In the call with Macron and Scholz, the Kremlin said, Putin emphasized that Russia was working to “establish a peaceful life in Mariupol and other liberated cities in the Donbas.”

[…] Ukrainian authorities have reported that Kremlin-installed officials in seized cities have started airing Russian news broadcasts, introduced Russian area codes, imported Russian school curriculum and taken other steps to annex the areas.

Russian-held areas of the southern Kherson region have shifted to Moscow time and “will no longer switch to daylight saving time, as is customary in Ukraine,” Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti quoted Krill Stremousov, a Russian-installed local official, as saying Saturday. (read more)


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To: Trump20162020

Hmm...

maybe we should be concerned about this Con man health?

Such inconsistency may indicate mental issues...


41 posted on 05/29/2022 5:46:13 PM PDT by mvonfr
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To: Owen

One of the best posts I’ve seen here.

But do change 40 to 20... or perhaps even 10. Things are moving fast.


42 posted on 05/29/2022 5:48:23 PM PDT by mvonfr
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To: odawg

I clicked on New Posts To You and it took me only to your post . . . to me. So I had not seen the organization.

Rystad are not buffoons. They are slightly newly arrived people in the world of oil. The actual quotes from them largely are about resources, not reserves. I don’t know how much you know of this so I won’t lecture on 1P and 2P and commercially underway projects — meaning the difference between resources and reserves. I’ll just note that resources are defined in a less stringent way than reserves.

The SPE has standards on these definitions, and that’s good because the SEC gets involved in what can be declared as Reserves. Proven, Probable and Possible have always had deceptive % numbers quoted (90%, 50% and 10%) and they reason the SEC sticks their nose in it is these are assets on a company’s balance sheet.

I am not trashing Rystad particularly. They are aware of all of these intricacies, and they are sometimes misquoted because they like to talk resources and the US centric oil media just leaps to call that reserves.

The EIA knows the score and you’ll find they match up with the wiki pretty well.

Note that all consultants, be it Rystad or Woods McKenzie or whoever, want to provide an answer they were paid to provide. Consultants were brought in to assess KSA’s reserves when Saudi Aramco was on the verge of selling significant % to the public, so they upticked the long existing numbers to justify valuation sought.

I think you’ll find most quality folks quoting reserves, not resources, will not put the US at #1.


43 posted on 05/29/2022 6:19:45 PM PDT by Owen
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To: Pollard

Good summary...thanks...


44 posted on 05/29/2022 7:03:54 PM PDT by Does so (https//youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Uke's Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: Kazan

Yes we do.


45 posted on 05/29/2022 7:18:37 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: All

Most people are unaware of how rapidly geopolitics are changing. Our long term effort to “destabilize Russia” and create “regime change” is definitely accelerating those changes in a very negative way for us.

Interesting comments from the Duran analysts today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Ce2sPFJ30

The Duran

Alex Christoforou: Is the ruble getting too strong?

Alexander Mercouris: Yeah, the central bank, the Russian central bank is becoming a bit concerned about this because it is worrying that the rise of the ruble is going to start affecting exports and there is even rumors that it has actually intervened in the foreign currency markets...sold rubles and bought dollars, euros, whatever in order to prevent the ruble strengthening too far. I am not sure how it can do that given the sanctions. But, there is this rumor and it’s actually been published in the Russian media.

I think that the ruble will continue to strengthen over time because all the indicators point in that direction. But, I think what the central bank may want to do is to slow it down and I think what with capital controls and all the rest and with Russia now seriously considering quitting the World Trade Organization which is a huge topic which we might want to discuss at some point. But, with Russia now talking about doing that the Russians are now able to pursue economic policies which won’t need a weak ruble any longer and maybe that’s the kind of policies they should have followed in the first place.


46 posted on 05/29/2022 7:54:31 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: odawg

“Early on, Zelenski should have, as most hoped, gone to the negotiating table and ceded the provinces to Russia and avoid having his country pulverized”

He was stopped from doing so by the US and UK. For real. The US owns him, after all.

I am ashamed the US is doing this, giving billions to military contractors, in exchange for family and campaign kickbacks, propping up the US State Department’s toxic money laundering playground, demanding they fight to the last Ukrainian.

My eyes have been opened. This is close to criminal, what the US government is doing, including Congress. I sure didn’t vote for any of this crap!!!

The American Government is corrupt as hell, out of control, and despised by the world. And me.

Record inflation, gas through the roof, food shortages, invasion across our border—close to 3 MILLION INVADERS THIS YEAR!!!!! Trannies twerking in front of kindergartners. FBI is KGB, SWAT raiding Patriots and ignoring black mobs of rioters burning and looting cities, they comitted sedition against a sitting President then exhonerated themselves.

And our idiots in Congress take Junkets back to Ukraine and dump 50 TRILLION DOLLARS into that shiitehole!!! Ukraine was in on the sedition against Trump!!!! Biden gives Ukraine billions, and they give the Bidens tens of millions!!!

I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!!


47 posted on 05/29/2022 8:28:03 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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