Among the more curious developments since the Ukraine crisis uptick overnight is that you can’t watch the Vladimir Putin speech announcing a “special military operation.” Search Google for this speech and all you get is usual-suspect Lugenpresse narratives and no direct link to the actual speech.
This will be a running and ongoing post and will monitor the evidence as it becomes available. Look for several more updates later today.
Russian news source Sputnik seems to have the actual key details of the speech. No mention of an invasion. No indication tanks are rolling into Ukraine itself. Moscow confirms Ukrainian airbases and facilities were hit throughout the country. The objectives seem to be limited as follows:
“Ukrainian military infrastructure, air defence facilities, military airfields, and air forces are being neutralised by high-precision weapons”, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement. The MoD stressed there are no threats to the civilian population. President Putin authorized the military to conduct a special operation to protect Donbass. “We have no plans to occupy Ukrainian territory”, Putin stated.
Additionally Putin stated that the West was about “pseudo values contrary to human nature, and is an empire of lies.”
Update at dusk Feb. 24: The invasion narrative seems phony. The evidence suggests Russia pounded Ukraine’s facilities in the exact manner described by Putin in his hard to locate speech last night. Will this change?
It is true that Donbass is subject to interpretation, and extended operations will be essential to key on. Kharkiv is also significant. It has a 50/50 split Russian-Ukrainian population and is a major industrial center.
Livestream Webcams
Kharkiv
Donbass
Odessa
Kiev:
Early reports and footage center around Ukrainian airports in different parts of the country. Explosions of some sort go off in the distance. At this stage, there is no actual on-the-ground verifiable footage at the airports themselves.
“Blasts” heard in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, Mariupol.
! Ukraine’s central military command reports Russia bombed several airports, including Kyiv Boryspil, Nikolaev, Kramatorsk, Kherson. Kharkiv military airport is burning. pic.twitter.com/IOrfGZgPL4
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) February 24, 2022
Here’s an example of possible wag-the-dog footage of the airport bombing in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Curiously, the truck’s lettering in the opening seconds isn’t even in Cyrillic lettering. Yoodle aye hee hoo.
WATCH: Missile hits airport in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine pic.twitter.com/EnskxXhpnq
— BNO News (@BNONews) February 24, 2022
Marco Rubio puts forth the US narrative on how allegedly aggressive the Russia operation is. Is this even remotely truthful?
#Russia is now working on:
-establishing air superiority via targeted surgical strikes
-a pincer movement to trap Ukrainian forces in the east & cut them off from #Kyiv
-finally attempt to decapitate Ukrainian govt by targeting govt buildings,leaders & command & control systems— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 24, 2022
#Russia’s airborne forces are attempting to take control of the airport in #Kyiv to they can fly in forces to occupy the capitol city
An amphibious assault on the key port city of #Mariupol is now underway
Ground forces now moving in from Belarus, Crimea & from #Russia
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 24, 2022
Over the last hour a story is out concerning Russian helicopters attacking Hostomel airport near Kiev. The copters would likely have had to come from Belarus to be in range. These accounts look sock puppety. Antonov Airport, also known as Hostomel Airport is an international cargo airport and testing facility in Ukraine operating by Antonov Airlines.
Russian helicopters attack airport in Hostomel near capital of Ukraine (Kiev)#Ukraine #Ukrainia #Oekraine #RussiaUkraine #Russia #ww3 #Ukrayna #أوكرانيا pic.twitter.com/ykGwYQPeNe
— O. Copel (@CopelReparatie) February 24, 2022
Russia confirms that a battle was fought for Hostomel.
RUSSIA TOOK CONTROL OF AERODROME NEAR KYIV, LANDED PARATROOPS – AGENCIES QUOTE RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY https://t.co/MLWyYykYr6
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 25, 2022
International reserves of Russia are the highest ever, and the country is running a surplus. US Dollars are down to only 16% of reserves. Brent crude is up to $105 on these developments and Russia benefits. Russia and China have already moved away from the Swift system. Who really gets hurt by sanctions and more inflation at this point – the US paper tiger? Europe is already scrambling to exempt products.
Diplomats tell us following sanctions are tricky:
– ITA, AUS, DE concerned abt broad banking-sector sanctions
– ITA resistant to sanctions that include railways
– ITA wants carve-out for luxury goods
– BEL wants carve-out for diamonds
+ broad reluctance to sanction energy sector— Matina Stevis-Gridneff (@MatinaStevis) February 24, 2022
Bloomberg: Ukraine debt given an 80% chance of default. Ukraine’s 2033 Dollar Bond Tumbles, Yield Surges to 88% from 22.6%.
Feb. 25 Update; 8:00 AM European time-
Twitter is filled with dubious images.
Wrong, people keep sharing fake videos all over.. like this video that is constantly shared of “Ukraine” that’s actually a video from 2015 in China. Half the videos being shared are people trying to spread fake news or gain followers from this tragedy. pic.twitter.com/Tp8ltoN8DD
— Corbin Williams (@corbinwilliams) February 24, 2022
So far Russian or pro-Russian sources acknowledge that military facilities near major Ukrainian cities of Mariupol, Berdyansk, Zaporizhia, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Odessa, Zhytomyr, Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernihiv have been destroyed. The UAF facilities near the Ukrainian capital were also knocked out.
Russian tanks are in place in Kherson which is outside of the Donbass and Crimea. Real or wag the dog? The Z in the tanks are combat markings to avoid friendly fire. Russian sources state, “The Russian army is advancing in the South of Ukraine. Russian military columns were spotted near the towns of Genichesk, Novaya Kahovka and throughout the Kherson region.
Russian Barnaul-T 9S932-1 command posts and Tor-M2 air defense systems with “Z” markets reportedly in Genichesk, Kherson oblast, Ukraine. https://t.co/fWIyklbvmg pic.twitter.com/b2v5qvDkdx
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) February 24, 2022
Alleged rout of Russians at Kherson using grainy CGI
❗#Kherson direction. #Large column of #Russian Armed Forces burned to the ground 🔥 Desolate sight.#StandWithUkraine #UkraineWar #StopRussianAggression #StopWar pic.twitter.com/nJoNbjOt5v
— UATV English (@UATV_en) February 25, 2022
Other images make sense in terms of the context of strategic and surgical strikes such as this radar station at Mariupol, in southern most Donbass.
Geolocation of destroyed radars near Mariupol #Ukraine
47.10064, 37.47667 https://t.co/ldYM9UdWPV pic.twitter.com/LsJhvGJ6jN
— John Marquee (@john_marquee) February 24, 2022
Why would people get out on the highways and leave Kiev? Where are they going. I am hearing the border at Slovakia some distance away is severely backed up. Seems more logical to stay put than be a moving target.
#Kyiv is in huge traffic jams. People are in a hurry to leave the capital. The Ministry of Internal Affairs asks the residents of Kyiv not to leave the city right now, so as not to create traffic jams. pic.twitter.com/1AwOFN4M7Y
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) February 24, 2022
This scene in Kharkiv (outside of Donbass) is one I highly question as legit. If true it supports the extended invasion narrative.
Situation is difficult but controlled – Ukrainian authorities
In Kharkiv region Ukrainian army destroyed Russian military convoy
All over #Ukraine long queues are seeing near military commissariats. People are ready to defend their country #StandWithUkraine pic.twitter.com/MVoGd2RlGe— UATV English (@UATV_en) February 24, 2022
Kharkiv again- grainy CGI? burned out Russian tanks in a perfect row
❗#Kharkiv, column of destroyed #Russian tanks#StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillResist pic.twitter.com/lNyfJdwNRh
— UATV English (@UATV_en) February 24, 2022
Looks like a truck just dumped this off an a street in Kharkiv for a photo op?
#Kharkiv now: #Russian rocket 💥in the middle of the street!#StandWithUkraine #StopWar #StopRussianAggression pic.twitter.com/Xq2zYiMoGa
— UATV English (@UATV_en) February 25, 2022
Russians in Kiev- real or CGI wag the dog? And why would the driver pull off the paved street, jump the curb, and roll over muddy soil in this situation?
⚡️Kyiv right now: battle of #Russia‘s sabotage and reconnaissance group with #Ukraine‘s Armed Forces takes palce in Obolon district of #Kyiv#StandWithUkraine #StopWar #UkraineWar pic.twitter.com/yDsZ4XHXy9
— UATV English (@UATV_en) February 25, 2022
Hokey looking scene using Kiev subway as shelter- stampede the locals and instill hysteria?
#Kyiv now, Heroiv Dnipra station 🚇
People use subway as #bombshelter amid attacks 💥
They plan to spend this night in the subway#StopRussianAggression #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/rZHHtCFM4W— UATV English (@UATV_en) February 24, 2022
Update coming up on dusk in eastern Europe, Feb. 25:
The full invasion regime change narrative goes like this. If so, this should unfold quickly like over the weekend. This should also allow us to separate wag the dog from real.
As many as 2,000 Russian Special Forces are planning to seize either Sikorsky or Boryspil airport in Kiev to prepare for the arrival of 10,000 paratroopers, IL-76 aircraft, light armored vehicles and airborne troops.
Sabotage groups already in Ukraine will seek to take out power grids and substations to disconnect much of Kiev from electricity and communications, causing panic among the population. The next phase will be to capture and control the main authorities including the General Staff, the Cabinet, the Verkhovna Rada, and retain them until the arrival of Russia’s main forces. Pro-Russian politicians will be able to assume responsibility and sign documents.
Meanwhile:
Fed’s ‘Favorite’ Inflation Indicator Hotter Than Expected At 40-Year Highs https://t.co/Bm6DTVeTuv
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 25, 2022
Update Feb 26 at dusk; this map claims to show areas of operation as acknowledged by both combatants. It shows Donbass active as expected. The area north of Kiev and connections extending to Belarus is expected. Battle for Mariupol is underway.
I was speculating about Kherson and what the strategic importance is to Russia. According to Sergey Aksyonov, the Crimean prime minister appointed by Russia, the Northern Crimean channel (Kherson) supplied up to 85% of all potable water to the peninsula until 2014, but in response to the annexation of Crimea, Kyiv cut off the water supply to the peninsula. Kherson has a large Russian ethnic population as well.
Kharkiv is key and very delicate- it could be that Russia is securing ethnic Russian districts back to the border. Taking Kharkiv or Kiev by force and engaging in urban warfare would in my book be a serious overreach and a violation of Putin’s speech outline on Thursday morning.
Update Sunday morning, Feb 27
Weather is clear and the Russians are active with what looks like light mechanized infantry probes right into Kharkiv entering from the north and coming to the east of the famous Dino Park.
The footage coming out shows the mech infantry moving cautiously and without tanks and heavier artillery. This is obviously a recon in force to gauge resistance, which appears light so far.
Russian soldiers in Kharkiv. https://t.co/cEtUIZx7mb pic.twitter.com/q3rRz8kA4G
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) February 27, 2022
Video of Russian troops in Kharkiv with Tigr-M and KamAZ trucks. https://t.co/XtxPO6459d pic.twitter.com/FdIduzt80Q
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) February 27, 2022
Russian razvedchiki and Spetsnaz in Kharkiv. I don’t think they’ll be able to take the city just with light forces. https://t.co/WtCVj7IooY pic.twitter.com/ZwBi2B4XB7
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) February 27, 2022
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) February 27, 2022
Ukrainians engaging in Kharkiv, mostly with lighter arms
Ukrainian soldiers engaging Russian spetsnaz or razvedchiki by those damaged and abandoned Tigr-M vehicles in Kharkiv. https://t.co/gJ6GzsXf3e pic.twitter.com/sUgtKa7TjZ
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) February 27, 2022
Feb 27 afternoon Wag the Dog update- Hollywood version was better
Grainy, jerky film, who has a camera like this in 2022? And the tactical formation of sitting duck vehicles and tanks with no spacing is nonsensical. Second rate CGI? https://t.co/PzCBC2aacS
— Winter Watch (@New_Nationalist) February 27, 2022
It’s about over a parties agree to negotiate.
It’s about over as Russia has secured what it wants: Donbass, Kherson and the Russian ethnic area of Kharkiv. No interest in Kiev urban war. Meanwhile it’s over for Ukraine as they now call up the Volksturm. pic.twitter.com/IIJRDMDFMx
— Winter Watch (@New_Nationalist) February 27, 2022
Are you seriously still using gooogle? To search for Russian stuff?? better check some alternatives. https://swprs.org/how-to-escape-google/
Are you totally lacking in perception? I mention a Google search to show how they deliberately hid Putin speech. 90% of all searches. There are some pajama people who wander in here BTW. Not everybody is on top of this issue.
btw https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ru_bow.html as that BBC guy claimed the russian troops in front of him have yellow and black stripes at their left upper arm if I understodd that right. It was not seen on that footage.
What do you make of the US biolabs in Ukraine rumours?
“pseudo values contrary to human nature, and was an empire of lies.”
I think Putin might be on to something but we’ll see…
The news says casualties are at 40 right now. That doesn’t sound like an invasion to me.
The war is a fraud- I doubt that there are as many as a dozen people in Ukraine willing to risk their lives for the rotten Zionist government of that misbegotten place. Could there be sabotage teams wrecking Ukrainian infrastructure? Ziopsychos murdering civilians at random? Possibly- but no actual armed conflict.
Thank you, I will share this on my social media.
“France takes Algeria from Turkey, and almost every year England annexes another Indian principality: none of this disturbs the balance of power; but when Russia occupies Moldavia and Wallachia, albeit only temporarily, that disturbs the balance of power.
France occupies Rome and stays there several years during peacetime: that is nothing; but Russia only thinks of occupying Constantinople, and the peace of Europe is threatened. The English declare war on the Chinese, who have, it seems, offended them: no one has the right to intervene; but Russia is obliged to ask Europe for permission if it quarrels with its neighbor.
England threatens Greece to support the false claims (Don Pacifico affair) of a miserable Jew and burns its fleet: that is a lawful action; but Russia demands a treaty to protect millions of Christians, and that is deemed to strengthen its position in the East at the expense of the balance of power. We can expect nothing from the West but blind hatred and malice … (comment in the margin by Nicholas I: ‘This is the whole point’). — Mikhail Pogodin’s memorandum to Nicholas I, 1853”
Russ, you posted this in a previous article on your site and, to me, it fits the current situation in Ukraine perfectly. It seems even in the 1800s the only countries allowed to invade other countries were the ones being run by Jews/central banks, same as today. The Czar knew it in 1853 and Putin knows it in 2022. Maybe someone is finally going to do something about it. If not, I’m really not sure where the synagogue of satan is going with this whole global reset thing. It almost seems like the whole thing is blowing up in their faces and now it’s back to the old tricks. But this time people aren’t buying it. I was watching FOX news coverage of the Ukraine invasion and it was so obviously manufactured propaganda it was sad. It looked like they had months to prepare for the narrative but instead they decided to just mail it in. They were interviewing all the usual suspects and they were giving their pre-prepared lines right on que. It was pathetic and shocking to think that anyone still watches that garbage.
Have to say, the coverage of this is a great example of not just a discordian propaganda campaign on all sides which have common conflicts of interest, but one on a global scale, where you have accounts from all the countries, apparently, rehashing the terrible BS nonsense from every country, so you get bad US media, bad Russian Media, bad global media, bad MSM, bad ‘independent.’ They’ve failed to address just simple things about this.
Take a look at this fact, and this feed has many observations that are worth discussion, left out of both sides of the debacle. You have all of this ‘Running to defend a Jewish President from the Nazi Putin,’ then Putin claiming he’s ‘Denazifying the Ukraine.’ Those two statements don’t add up, logically.
https://twitter.com/MauricePinay/status/1496825940646584326
Even less so, here.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/from-ukraine-to-israel-and-back-again
A lot of ‘Nazi’ baiting, talk of ‘evil Nationalism, but not of this Ultrazionism which both Putin and US allies seem to have factional alliances with to certain ends, although Putin seems to be neck-deep in with them. And they have a long history of connections to the KGB/GRU, international drug trafficking, prostitution, money laundering, etc. Simeon Mogilevich and Oleg Derepaska, of the Red Mafiya, are in with them, as well as the Kushner Family, in with the NY-NJ Kosher Nostra. Yet 99.9 percent of the media, nothing? That means they are all lying through their teeth, just from that simple fact, by crime of omission.
https://www.exposetheenemy.com/israel#ChabadLubavitch
Now you’ve got two ‘resurgences’ going on, geopolitically, resulting from this. One is some temporary, possibly longer-term, fervor of ‘German Nationalism,’ which benefits whom, usually? And the other is what I just mentioned, this Ultrazionist operation which is linked to Israel, Russia, US, that the media will not mention, for whatever number of reasons.
1.) ‘Isolationism’ and ‘German Nationalism’- pivot to ‘Eurasia’ (the obsession of Lurianic Kabbalah)
https://shoebat.com/2022/02/24/russias-war-against-ukraine-is-happening-as-america-returns-to-isolationism-germany-is-lacking-trust-in-the-americans-and-is-working-to-restore-german-military-might/
2.) And with anyone pretending ‘their media,’ whichever it is, is being honest, defending either the US DOD, or Russia, etc- have them explain the casual alliance, Easternization here- which is and has been a long-term plot, openly documented, and treasonous at this point- given its results (in the past they would always say ‘it didn’t mean how people were interpreting it.’ Turns out it did.)
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/02/investigative-reports/technocracy-the-operating-system-for-the-new-international-rules-based-order-1/
Ironically, the Western and Eastern Blocs are employing a similar PR strategy here, one that, in spite of all the Putin-defending, originated in Russia, and is now being employed in the US (described in Adam Curtis Hypernormalization doc, and rooted in Red Mafiya member Boris Berezovsky’s plans for a Potemkin style Russian Government)
https://www.bitchute.com/video/l6cDIENLdibO/
So to bring it full circle. You had another article about ‘Order out of Chaos’ in the Ukraine. This one is ‘Wag the Dog.’ Here is Chabad and Freemasonry, international organized crime. Apparently the newspapers and publications, mainstream and independent, have a problem reporting on it
https://www.bitchute.com/video/TKQEwIsoulWg/
I don’t doubt for a minute that there are multiple narrative and agenda overlays associated with events in Ukraine; but are people seriously arguing that real, kinetic and relatively large scale military operations are NOT happening on the ground in Ukraine? One of WW’s long time markers of staged events is the absence of citizen cell phone videos; seems to me there is plenty of that here (some if it appropriately “grainy”). Remarkable dash cam video this morning of a driver veering around mortar explosions in a roadway is just a single example. I further would asset, again, not denying the multiple agendas, that Russia is pursuing traditional, real-politic aims: to wit, the creation of a rump, much reduced-in-area, Ukrainian state which will never again whisper the words “join NATO”. I’ll try to catch some of the podcast.
Any serious fighting is confined to Donbuss and the areas north of Kiev. See dusk update Feb. 26 in post.
I was speculating about Kherson and what the strategic importance is to Russia. According to Sergey Aksyonov, the Crimean prime minister appointed by Russia, the Northern Crimean channel (Kherson) supplied up to 85% of all potable water to the peninsula until 2014, but in response to the annexation of Crimea, Kyiv cut off the water supply to the peninsula. Kherson has a large Russian ethnic population as well.
Kharkiv may be limited to securing ethnic Russian ground nearer the border. Show me evidence elsewhere particularly that is acknowledged by Russian sources.
The highway scenes filmed from vehicles look nonsensical.
Thanks – we seem to agree about the relative reality of the real-politic goals being pursued. By the way: one of my sources suggests that that the alternate spellings “Kiev” vs “Kyiv” are part of the real-politic contest – are you hedging your bets?
I am too old to change habits such as required new words.
The media is claiming that Russia has seized control of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This plant was shut down 20 years ago. It has no military or economic value whatsoever. It is clearly a psy-war tactic to increase fear and alarm by reviving memories of the 1986 nuclear accident that occurred there and associate it with the present day Russian government.