Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia is Ready for a Big Strike in Avdiivka | Ukraine will stop them

Youtube.com ^ | 12-19-2023 | Denys Davydov

[tballard56]

Credit where credit is due: Hamas has nothing on this lady when it comes to propaganda spin.

[House Atreides]

It would not even be too far off the actual reality now.

“Western curators will invite Zelensky to freeze the conflict and declare that Russia has lost, - Financial Times
▪️Kiev needs to agree to a “freeze of the conflict” and present it as a “Ukrainian victory,” a retired American official told FT.
▪️”We need to turn the story around and say that Putin lost.” “ https://www.ft.com/content/75da21e8-8...

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxarffrF2R6NB9FQo9fE6eTHqwgUODjZEK

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UN FRIGGIN’ BELIEVABLE. The rising REEK OF DESPERATION is in the air.

[gleeaikin]

What, are the Russian soldiers Jewish, they don’t fight on Saturday? :-)

[Sunsong]

LOL wrong

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "You really should be embarrassed by now."

--- "You hold your opinion and I hold mine."

And there it is. Most of this stuff is opinion, some "official propaganda" and much re-worked, monetized YouTube videos as that cottage industry that has sprung up around war. And, as above, it's mostly opinion.

Opinion.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

If Avdiivka falls, Russia has won the war. This is like Gettysburg or Stalingrad—the pivotal battle. Who wins here will win the war! Zelenskyy must send all living Ukrainian Freedom Fighters—all living Citizen soldiers into this one battle! Every tank, every airplane used as Kamazais! All Men and woman in Banzai charges of ten thousand in human waves, until the Orks run out of bullets! Better dead than lose one meter of sacred Ukraine to evil war criminal Putin. Let the world see that this war can be won on the battlefield! Ukraine will not accept defeat!

[redfreedom]

“Credit where credit is due: Hamas has nothing on this lady when it comes to propaganda spin.”

The screen name merely suggests it’s a lady, a reverend and whatever. When it comes to propaganda just about anything could be false or hidden.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Good morning. I cam across your graphics posted.

One observes the "opinion" that there was intentional UMC mockery identified. Perhaps, for all has been said to be "opinion" most recently.

But as to the current state of the UMC in serious schism, one reads much:

United Methodists Lose 1800 Churches in Split Over LGBT Stance

Why thousands of U.S. congregations are leaving the United Methodist Church

United Methodists lose one-fifth of U.S. churches in schism over LGBTQ rights

List of South Carolina churches leaving United Methodist Church

Why You Should Be Worried About the Split in the Methodist Church

22 Southern California churches plan to break off from United Methodist amid LGBTQ+ dispute

As Methodist Exits Hit 5800, Some Churches Find Paths Blocked

264 United Methodist churches leave Holston Conference

The split in UNY's United Methodist Church just got wider

Liberal mainline United Methodists see more than 5,000 congregations leave amid arguments over sex, gender

It seems that the UMC does not speak with one voice in the moment as it struggles with Romans 1, that interesting chapter which irritates some.

Note in the above citations, there is neither mockery nor propaganda. Just various coverage of a schism, as more than just a war is, in Mr. Robinson's statement, "controversial."

[Rocco DiPippo]

[Rocco DiPippo]

Here's your primary "source." What a sick joke that is.

[Rocco DiPippo]

"You are totally entitled to Freedom of thought and Freedom of expression. You hold your opinion and I hold mine. And, that’s OK! :)"

You phony. Yeah, it's all good until you have their comment removed. Then "their" right to an opinion doesn't matter to you one bit.

Here's an opinion you're sure to enjoy and it's more based in reality than your crazy, pro-Youke propaganda is.

[hinckley buzzard]

Apparently, from verified maps, Avdiivka is getting the Bakhmut treatment. Russians encroaching from the north and east, progressively narrowing the Ukrainians’ salient into occupied territory.

[Rocco DiPippo]

When are you going to stop posting so much crazy Youke propaganda?

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

Surprise!

Warthog Defense joined the Christmas campaign which aims to finance 12 anti-drone guns and 12 electronic domes to protect up to 20 units of the AFU from relentless Russian drone warfare.
https://twitter.com/UkraineAidOps/status/1735767066248958283
https://donorbox.org/clear-skies-for-regina

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

VIDEO

RUSSIA Cuts Oil Production Again - Questions Raised Over Production Problems as Income Falls $74BN
Joe Blogs
335K subscribers
12-19-2023 6:30 a.m.
20:57 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=craSROxu-tc

Russia has announced a further PRODUCTION CUT of 50,000 Barrels Per Day in December which follows on from the cuts of 500,000 in April and 300,000 in September. Despite the Production Cuts the price of Russian Oil is continuing to fall as the USA and countries such as Iran and Venezuela have increased their supplies. Russia is losing huge amounts of Income and all of this comes at a bad time as it needs to maximise the revenue it is earning to support spending on the War in Ukraine. The Russian Economy has started to COLLAPSE as the impact of the Sanctions hit home. Russia’s OIL & GAS Revenue is down 63% in the first 11 months of 2023 compared with the revenue Russia was earning prior to the invasion of Ukraine. In addition to this huge reduction in income Expenditure is continuing to increase due to the investment in the War, which means that the Russian Economy is now incurring massive LOSSES. In this video I provide more details of the current situation and discuss the problems that Russia is now facing.

For specific details please check out the CHAPTER list below.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:56 RUSSIAN OIL
6:40 OIL PRICES
9:35 USA OIL PRODUCTION
13:34 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION

[Allegra]

Good morning!

Ah, yes…Post 67 was mine and Post 64 was Rocco’s. I wish I had snagged a screenshot of it at the time because it was hilarious.

However, both posts were Mumsied with one swift abuse report (posted initially to the forum…oops 😂) taking down both posts.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

ARTICLE

“Diia” will become one of the service providers of the reconstruction of Ukraine – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech at Diia Summit 2023
President of Ukraine
Official website
19 December 2023 - 13:43
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/diya-stane-odnim-iz-servisiv-provajderiv-vidbudovi-ukrayini-87837

Greetings to everyone! I am glad that at the end of the year we are in such a bright environment. This is very important. We can talk not about blackouts at all, but about a completely opposite topic – our state digital services. The ones that really work, that are developing. And they most clearly demonstrate what Ukraine is capable of and what all of us Ukrainians are capable of.

Our resilience – the resilience of our country and our society – is a globally significant example. It shows that when people work hard, really work for their country, the result is always extraordinary. In particular, now, in the midst of a full-scale war against this onslaught, as we defend Ukraine on a daily basis, we ensure the export of our “Diia” – our architecture of digital services – to other countries… This is definitely a success. And it is indeed remarkable. There are not many countries in the world right now capable of exporting their own digital solutions that are significant for the whole society.

“Diia” is truly an integral part of our lives, a societal tool. And it’s not just a collection of certain digital state services on a smartphone or portal. The meaning is greater. “Diia” is a tool that helps a person make the state serve them. The individual citizen. Minus officials. Minus bureaucracy. Minus any discomfort. Plus – there are pluses. And they are important. Plus usefulness – very specific usefulness for the individual.

I want to thank the entire team of our state that works for “Diia” right now! Guys, girls, you are all really great! And I am proud of you! Proud of this result. We all in Ukraine have every right to be proud of our “Diia”. Let’s support the “Diia” team – I congratulate the whole team, Mykhailo – congratulations, and I congratulate our users, 20 million citizens – this is indeed a powerful result.

Well, four years since “Diia” has been launched. Of these, almost two years have been a full-scale war, as was correctly stated at the beginning of our meeting. “Diia” has endured. “Diia” is growing. “Diia” will become even stronger. Today I would like to present some of the most important results and new features of “Diia”.

Now, “Diia” includes 14 digital documents on smartphones and over 130 online services. From the world’s first digital passport to construction services and nationwide surveys. By now, we probably have people who don’t even remember what it was like before, what it was like to live without “Diia”... And the state as a service is a logical evolution of all state systems in the world.

During this war, digital services proved not only their reliability, but also that state services can remain human-centered under any circumstances.

Currently “Diia” offers services for internally displaced persons, the “eOselia” program, the “eRecovery” program, the purchase of military bonds and the “eVorog” program, which allow everyone to help the Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine. There’s assistance for unemployment, deposit refund, extracts from state registers, and even a carsharing service... Wherever a person is – the state is right there for them.

Each of the more than one hundred and thirty online services in “Diia” means that more than one hundred and thirty possibilities to take a bribe have been removed.

And this positive effect is measured in billions, indeed billions, that Ukrainians have saved for themselves and that our society has been able to earn additionally thanks to digitalization. Of course, in peacetime, this will be even more.

“Diia” will become one of the service providers of our reconstruction – the reconstruction of Ukraine. Back in March 2022, the first digital reconstruction service was launched, and more than half a million Ukrainians have already filed reports of damaged property. And this is already a truly colossal volume. The entire scale of reconstruction will be even greater...

“Diia” provides a fast, convenient and transparent format for submitting applications for compensation for destroyed property, such as a house or apartment, and for receiving compensation. And this is already working.

Already this year, nearly a billion hryvnias will be paid out to families to restore war-damaged property. Of course, this is just the beginning. But it is a working start of the system. With the support of our partners and the capabilities of our country, we will ensure a nationwide result.

The second phase of the “eRecovery” program is the restoration of property that has been destroyed. It all starts with an application and ends with the issuance of a certificate – a housing certificate. Currently, its average value is 2 million hryvnias.

And this is the service we are launching now. Exchange of a certificate in “Diia” for housing. Now it will be available online. This week is the beginning. And then the service will scale up.

Another revolutionary service is something that already exempts many of our citizens, millions of people, from bureaucracy... At midnight tonight, the online service for buying and selling cars in “Diia” will be activated. Congratulations on this. In just 15 minutes, you will be able to buy or sell a car via your smartphone and receive a new vehicle registration document and license plates by mail. Today, government officials will present all this in greater detail.

And while to some it might seem that services in “Diia” sound a bit mundane – after four years of the service’s operation, the fact that we are in Ukraine and that we are doing all this, even now during such a war, tells the whole world very clear things about us: we can do much more than many in the world. More than is expected of us. We are Ukrainians. And when we are confident in ourselves, when we work for our societal interests, for our state, we achieve results that set an example for others in the world: for people, countries, leaders, societies.

We believe in our strength! We defend our state, we work for our country!

We act – and this is the key. Every day. Every minute.
For the sake of Ukraine.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

It becomes most interesting that fund-raising is such as issue. But so much of that fund-raising is based in the United States. One reads:

--- "Warthog Defense joined the Christmas campaign which aims to finance 12 anti-drone guns and 12 electronic domes to protect up to 20 units of the AFU from relentless Russian drone warfare."

1) Warthog Defense is a United States uploaded YouTube Channel, soliciting donations in a variety of ways. A differing AdSense examination estimates its YouTube earnings as between "$31.5K - $504K ESTIMATED YEARLY EARNINGS "

Source: https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/warthogproduction

2) The DropBox link leads to a donation platform which has collected less than $500 to this moment, for a "tax-exempt" American-based foundation in Delaware, begun in 2022.

3) One learns of that foundation and its "Christmas campaign," that it is 2022 United Aid and Logistics Foundation – a registered US 501(c)(3) public charity. Registered in Delaware, number: 6800424. Registered office: 8 The Green, Suite #8424, Dover, Delaware 19901 United States. Little more than a year old, there is as yet no Form 990 by which to measure its salaries, costs and such.

4) And the address as listed is interesting. Not an office, but rather a Virtual office, much like many fund raisers which use UPS and FedEx boxes as snail mail addresses. (One find this in Europe as well, by the way.)

The address for this new Delaware foundation may be examined:

We will give you your own suite number in our Dover, DE office. We own our building. You can use our Delaware address for your websites, mail, business cards, and whatever you need.

Clicking on the foundation link, one learns this company is registered in the UK as well as in the United States: About Ukraine Aid Ops

Yea and hurrah for United States-based Warthog Productions, and its AdSense earnings, 45% of which goes to Google / YouTube, just because money makes the world go 'round.

After all, it's Christmas and Christmas campaigns....

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

VIDEO

Why stopping Putin in Ukraine is so important for the UK | William Hague
Times Radio
645K subscribers
12-18-2023 9:00 a.m. EST
21:07 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsvbacDDp4

“The cost of building up NATO’s borders against Russia will be greater than the cost of helping Ukraine now.”

William Hague explains why defeating Putin is crucial for NATO, amongst other important topics of the day, with Joan Bakewell for #TimesRadio.

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

VIDEO

SSU Counterintelligence Has Results – Zelenskyy’s Words
UATV English
405K subscribers
12-18-2023 8:00 a.m. EST
3:08 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUYnl2PqnfQ

‘I would like to congratulate the warriors of our military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine. The warriors are celebrating their professional day,’ the President stated. Explosions on the illegal Kerch bridge are attributed to the Security Service of Ukraine. Also, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced new support decisions already in 2024.