1. UN Secretary General Guterres appoints new coordinator for Black Sea Grain Initiative
28.12.22
Source: https://censor.net/en/n3389937
“UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today announced the appointment of Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti of Kuwait as the UN Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” the statement said.
Since August 2022, this position was held by Amir Mahmoud Abdullah from Sudan. Guterres thanked him for his work and dedication to the initiative.
The grain agreement was concluded in Istanbul on July 22. With the participation of the UN, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine, two documents were signed on the creation of a corridor for the export of grain from three Ukrainian ports (Chornomorsk, Odesa and Pivdennyi), as well as on the removal of barriers to the export of Russian food and fertilizers.”
2. Russians shelled maternity hospital in Kherson. PHOTOS
27.12.22 21:00
Source: https://censor.net/en/p3389699
Today two babies were born in the maternity hospital. Doctors with the babies managed to go down to the shelter.
“Terrorists once again targeted children’s lives. Today two babies were born in this maternity hospital. One of the babies was born a few minutes before the walls of the maternity hospital were destroyed by Russian shells,” Lyashko wrote.
According to him, Russia insidiously shelled another maternity hospital in Kherson.
“Did the terrorists know where they were aiming? In the 11th month of the war I can say with certainty that they did. Because every day our hospitals and maternity hospitals become targets for Russian missiles and shells,” added Lyashko.
He stated that, fortunately, this time, neither babies, nor women in labor, nor hospital staff were injured.
Lyashko noted that “having no success on the battlefield, Russia is trying to fight with newborn Ukrainians.”
3. EU countries and European Commission will hand over 240 school buses to Ukraine. PHOTOS
28.12.22
Source: https://censor.net/en/p3389922
The European Commission organized a solidarity action to provide Ukrainian schoolchildren with transport to school.
“EU countries and European Commission will hand over 240 school buses to Ukraine
As part of this initiative, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Germany and the Netherlands will hand over 120 school buses to Ukraine.
Also, the EU will allocate 14 million euros for the purchase and transportation of another 120 school buses, so the total number of vehicles that will be transferred to Ukraine will reach 240 units.
The European Commission is calling on public and private organizations in the EU and beyond to join forces and show solidarity by providing the buses needed to transport Ukrainian children to their schools in the coming months.
“Ukrainian children need school buses. Europe is currently donating 14 million euros for this. And we need more. Therefore, the European Commission is organizing a solidarity campaign to provide school buses for Ukraine by the beginning of 2023. Together we can help the children - the future of Ukraine,” said the president Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission.”
4. Destruction of 1 S300 air defense system, 8 pieces of equipment and wounding of 150 Russians in Zaporizhzhia region have been confirmed,
28.12.22
Source: https://censor.net/en/n3389918
“The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published information on the specified losses of the Russian occupiers in the Zaporizhzhia region on December 27.
Censor.NET: This was reported on the official Facebook page of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“The Russian occupiers continue to die ingloriously in Ukraine. The destruction of one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, 8 units of military equipment of various types and types of ammunition was confirmed in the Zaporizhzhia region in the previous days. More than 150 servicemen were injured. The number of those killed is being specified,” the message states.”
The Centre for Strategic Communication identified 5 major turns of Russian propaganda in the ten months of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
STAGE 1. “Special operation for denazification or Kyiv in 3 days”
February 24 – March 15
From the very beginning, the Kremlin hoped to quickly defeat and impose capitulation on Ukraine. In this, an important role, besides the Russian army, was assigned to the numerous friends of Russia, who were expected to be found in Ukraine: treacherous elites (for the money that was being allocated for years to cultivate the fifth column, but… were stolen). As well as to the Russian-speaking population, which, according to the plan, should have supported Russia free of charge. In fact, Ukraine was sincerely considered infirm and unviable by Moscow because it was “not real, but invented by Lenin.”
On the second day of the invasion, Putin explicitly urged the Ukrainian army to start an armed rebellion: “Take power in your hands! It seems that it is easier to come to an agreement with you than with this group of drug addicts and neo-Nazis, which rooted in Kyiv and took all the Ukrainian people hostage.”
Russian propaganda explained to the Russians that:
-the invincible Russian army is clearly fulfilling its tasks, civilians are in no danger;
-the Ukrainian army has sided with the Russian one, and together they are destroying some nationalists;
-the great and terrible Kadyrov makes the enemies tremble at the sound of his name;
-answering the question “where were you for 8 years when Donbas was bombed?” — the opponents shyly avert their eyes.
“Russia is restoring its historical completeness, bringing together the ‘Russian world‘, the Russian people together — in its totality of Great Russians, Belarusians, and Little Russians,” reads the material that should have been published, but was hastily removed because the blitzkrieg stalled.
Ukrainians, thanks to heroic resistance, prevented fascist Z-dreams from happening.
STAGE 2. “Nationalists took civilians hostage, so there are victims”
March 16 – May 9
At that stage, Putin’s regime realized that Ukraine was stronger and did not intend to give up immediately. It didn’t work out to destroy it spontaneously, but it will, when using the obvious advantage in force. Even if we have to raze the housing blocks with their residents to the ground. The war will write it all off.
-everything goes according to the plan, it’s just that not everyone has access to this secret plan;
-it is not the Russians who commit crimes against civilians, but the Ukrainian army.
-nationalists and the Armed Forces of Ukraine hide in cities and use civilians as “human shields”;
-the best Ukrainian troops will be surrounded and destroyed in Donbas, the rest will run away and capitulate;
-Russia is liberating Donbas, fulfilling its allied responsibilities, and saving people from genocide.
STAGE 3. “The West is our enemy”
May 10 – September 12
On May 9, when Russia pompously celebrates Victory Day and everyone is intimidated with “we can repeat,” it was time to draw interim conclusions. They turned out to be disappointing for the Kremlin. Though everything went “according to the plan,” this mysterious plan no longer looked so brilliant. The problems had to be urgently explained by new difficult circumstances. The glimmer of doubt in the victory manifested itself in the determination of the nuclear power to resort to its last argument.
“In case of loss — which is impossible — there will be a final loss of imperial principles and traditions, the transformation with great losses into an ordinary regional state. The worst-case scenario is civil war and nuclear conflict with the West, with the mutual destruction of Western and Eastern European civilizations. Therefore, today’s confrontation with the West is a total hybrid war that we cannot lose.” From the programme article by Andrei Ilnitsky and Andrei Shkolnikov.
-everything is not easy because the Ukrainian army was
trained by the West, it helps Ukraine with weapons;
-in fact, it is already Russia’s war with NATO;
-Poles and Negroes are fighting on the Ukrainian side;
-Russia was left with no choice, the West imposed this
war on it, and Putin’s strike on 24 February was a
preventive one;
-Russia cannot be defeated because at the very least it
can always deliver a nuclear strike.
STAGE 4. “The Holy People’s War”
September 13 – December 1
Autumn brought the Ukrainian Defence Forces brilliant victories in the east and south, the authority of the Russian armed forces fell to the indicators of the First Chechen campaign. In Russia, the search for those responsible for the failures (army men), the appointment of new heroes (Wagner members), and the implementation of new strategies of war (bombing of civilian infrastructure) began. Mobilization had to be declared; it was called “partial” for reassurance. To have at least some political achievements, the Kremlin resorted to the annexation of four Ukrainian regions.
-we have to gather all forces because this is a sacred
war that purifies even the convicts;
-after the annexation of four regions to Russia, now,
the war is being waged on its territory and beyond,
which means it is a fair, defensive war;
-the Russian generals concealed the problems from the
people, but now the problems will be eliminated;
-in Russia, there are professionals from Wagner and
-“General Armageddon” Surovikin, who are able to turn
the tide;
-without warmth and light in winter, Ukrainians will not
be able to withstand and will force their leadership to
agree to Russian conditions.
STAGE 5. “Fighting Satan”
From December 2
At the end of a failed year on its side, the Putin regime tries to unleash an even higher level of psychosis, reaching the extreme forms of exaltation. Propaganda intimidates the Russians with the prospect of defeat and prepares them for new losses.
-Russia cannot lose because then The Hague awaits us
all;
-this is a religious war for faith, holy Rus, against
Satan;
-Ukraine mercilessly destroys Donetsk and its
inhabitants by shelling;
-but not all Russians have yet realized that the war is
about everyone.
Moscow returns to the nuclear blackmail of the world. The new-year gift was a “nuclear lullaby” for the patriots from the MP of the State Duma Denis Maidanov, in which he sings about the “Sormatushka” missile, aimed at the United States. “Why do we need such a world if Russia is not in it?” Putin’s words are quoted in the video. “No victory, only betrayal” — this is how the song ends.
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During 2022, Russian military propaganda passed a thorny path from “nobly rescuing Ukrainians from the Nazis” to “burning the whole world to hell in a nuclear apocalypse.”
One can only guess how exactly these extremes are combined in Putin’s plan of “special operation” (which Russian troops strictly adhere to).
However, if this plan really works, as Moscow assures, it is a plan of suiciders, not winners.
-Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security