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Written by Julian Macfarlane
I recently did a voice-over for SouthFront — a video report on the Ukraine. I usually do these voice-overs twice a week, in British English, although, as I Canadian, I am trained in American too. Good practice!
I don’t write these reports — and I don’t necessarily even agree with all the content – but SF’s reporting is always honest, whatever my opinions, which is more than I can say for the mainstream media for whom I have also worked in my other role as media whore.
You owe it to yourself to visit sites like SouthFront. They are major sources of information and criticism.
Also Larry Johnson. Moon of Alabama. Brian Bertelic’s New Atlas You Tube channel. Alex Mercouris. They deserve your support.
The last report I recorded was mostly about Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), a fortress town in Donbass, now much in the news.
Some think that capturing this town is a strategic key to taking larger cities to the north in occupied Eastern Ukraine– such as Sloviansk and Kramatorsk . Others think that it is just a convenient slaughterhouse for the Russians to turn the UAF into porterhouse steaks.
Bakhmut and the Wagner Group
According to SF’s report, Bakhmut is “on the verge of collapse”.
The head of the PMC “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that the Russians have the task of destroying the Ukrainian army and reducing its combat potential but not storming the city. Such tactics should lead to the liberation of the city without heavy fighting on the streets, and also has a positive effect on other fronts of Eastern Ukraine.
In the case of Bakhmut, Prigozhin’s pronouncement is significant. This group is focused on destroying the UAF forces in the city, which consist of conscripts and mercenaries: they do not want to destroy the city itself.
This is in line with Russian policy of trying to reduce civilian losses and protect infrastructure, as well as reduce their own casualties. Certainly, the Wagner Group, which is made up of (it appears) largely of ex-Russian military professionals has been effective in this regard.
Western propaganda aka “the Media” has characterized PMC Wagner as “Putin’s Private Army”, “NeoNazis — and accused it of war crimes, relying largely on information from real NeoNazis in Ukraine – and, in Syria, American friends like Al Qaeda and various jihadist terrorist groups.
All armies commit war crimes, of course, so I am not saying that Wagner operatives haven’t overstepped the bounds on occasion, but their hallmarks are discipline and professionalism— so acts of gratuitous cruelty are not in their best interests. Bad PR if you want to sell military services.
In addition, Western propaganda has come out with so many egregious lies, that anything they claim has to be viewed critically.
Just Google “Russia” and “war crimes”— you will get no less than 130,000,000 results. Now look at this list. You will see multiple entries, using almost identical phrasing, indicating the same sources.
Now Google “UAF war crimes”. 234,000 results.
Yet, there is almost no hard evidence of Russian war crimes. But more than enough of UAF crimes. 15,000 dead in Eastern Ukraine testify to that. Not to mention the well-documented shelling of civilian sites, not to mention random atrocities such as rape and murder. Not to mention numerous Ukrainian videos of the mutilation and execution of POWs.
“Bucha massacre”? A miniscule 1, 160,000 results. Yet all the photos showed fresh bodies who apparently remained fresh for 3 weeks. Those chicken cutlets in my fridge go bad in about a week. Of course, they don’t have white arm bands indicating they are Russian chickens.
We must assume the laws of Nature are different for Russians. Not to mention basic psychology.
The Western Media would have us believe the Russians are self-destructive. Massacring their own. Blowing up their own pipelines. Attacking their own nuclear power plants, Shelling their own hospitals, schools, and shopping centers.
Again, this is not to say that individual Russians or Wagnerites have NOT done some bad stuff— just as American and Brit soldiers did in WWII — just not on the same scale as the UkroNazis. Don’t believe what you read uncritically.
Unsustainable Losses
SouthFront reports heavy UAF losses in Bakhmut at the hands of the much-despised Wagner Group.
As a result, the Ukrainian Army loses 500 to 800 killed and wounded soldiers in the “Bakhmut grinder”.
Alex Mercouris confirms these numbers from both Ukrainian and Russian sources, saying that the UAF is losing the equivalent of a battalion a day!
This assessment is backed up by…. Andrew Milburn, a retired US marine, who works with the Mozart Group training UAF troops in Bakhmut. He puts casualties at at least 70%. He points out that the UAF in Bakhmut are virtually untrained Ukrainian troops, easy meat for Russia’s seasoned veterans.
That’s pretty bad.
But consider that SouthFront, Mercouris and Milburn are talking about….
What’s the key point of their analyses? It’s important. For more— read here for the full article on Substack.
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Heard all this information last week. However I’m sure the pressure has not been elevated in anyway and it’s hitting Solador and other from the south. So I’m waiting for these other towns to go before collapse Bakhmut.
It will always be so the Western media, they have control of CNN BBC is Google they use these platforms to spread lies, it is as says there 100 million search on Russian war crimes that are almost non-existent. Why would Russia kill its own people? Your own language? Would it be revenge for the Ukraines to let the Nazis invade the Soviet Union in good shape? I don’t think so! The Russians and biolelorussians They’ve always respected ukrainians for being brother peoples. But now they have become a deluded people thinking that the West is NATO are helping them to be “independent”
Yes, that’s indeed stupid, but from their perspective it is just the better of two evil options. Eighter jewish-US-zionist controlled or jewish-RU-communist rule in Ukraine.
It is both shit, but the Ukrainians chose the option 1. That’s it.
Jews didn t let them a real choice, in fact. Jewish US bitch Victoria Newland made Maidan coup, and afterwards jewish-Chabad puppet Pootin invaded Ukraine, after waiting for 8 full years, till the US-jews had fully prepared, upgraded, up-armoured and up-ammunitioned Ukrainian military to the teeth.
This is why I say YOU ALL need to wake up and start fighting the real enemy, the JEW, instead of your christian brothers and sisters, which HE tells you you shall slaughter.
Btw… The Russian Duma just passed a bill to decriminalize crimes committed in the occupied territories of Ukraine if they were committed to “protect the interests of Russia”
Coincidence !!????
You’re one of these prize idiots that thinks Azovites are going to maintain political and ideological control of Ukraine after they’ve sold themselves out.
So foolish you are, I know idiots like you, please tell me you’re not “BlackAcidLizard”, that stupid fuck, so deluded as to think the CIA would EVER EVER allow Ukraine to be anything other than a pozzed up hellhole once Ukraine signed itself over to the west.
@Captain Hohlol
Why you say this ? I know and often enough told here that th Ukrainians are just used, SAME AS THE RUSSIANs, and that is the main difference in our (yours and mine) postings here. I clearly see that both sides are fully controlled by the jews, wherefore you only assume that the WEST (including ukraine) is corrupt, evil and jew-controlled. So I reject your one-sided childish view, because I know it’s not true. If someone tells only half of the truth, then he is still lying ! This you need to understand.
Satan wants us to be fools, and his deciples, the Jews act in his order, trying to get us to do stupid things, get lazy , get evil, get us to kill each other and give all we have, from our money, to our children and souls to them so that they can use them or sacrifice them whenever they want.
So again – both the WEST and the EAST (including China) are jewish controlled. So it is of no use to say Ukraine has to win, or Russia has to win, or UK has to win it s all bullshit. If mankind wants to live – it has to overcome and get rid of the Most Evil World Enemy Of All Times, the International Jewry !!!
As somebody else had stated, they’ve sold themselves out for the lie of EU prosperity, when all it will result in is foreigners running their cities and leftists running their governments. And by then a western intelligence agency run police state will have enveloped Ukraine and it will be impossible for them to revolt.
I will say it over and over again, this is a war waged by intelligence agency concerns who are using leftism to create a system of control.
Russia is in a position to disrupt and cause the inadvertent collapse of the neoliberal system by merely existing and prospering and serving as an example that western leftism and all of it’s dehumanizing laws are not necessary.
All this tranny bullshit in the west is to demoralize its own people and bury them under so many idiotic laws to hamper opposition to the government. The system they’re trying to promote there has an expansion profile similar to that of Enron and any interruption to it will cause its collapse.
@Captain Hohol
If even half of the things you say about Russia were to be true, then Putin would have long kicked out the jews from all power-positions in Russia. But what did he do ? THE OPPOSITE !!!
He made tons of new anti-ANTISEMITISM laws, restricted freedom of speech in Russia even more, gave trillions of russians taxpayers money to his jewish oligarch friends like Abramovich, Rotenberg, Beral Lazar and all the other hook-nosed demons, while sending the poor christian russian men into certain death to Ukraine, knowing that a deadly meatgrinder was prepared for them their by his jewish freemasonary lodge-brothers and chabad friends and buddies.
It is the jewish eleites on both sides of the ocean, trying to getting rid of the white christian fighting-able men. Therefore WAR – to get them killed, so that they cannot fight against their real enemy anymore. Dead people cannot fight !
Therefore also the deadly mRNA corona-vaccines. It is to murder the white race, murder what’s left of western civilisation !!!!
The russian 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade has been completely annihilated by Ukrainian Forces, don’t laugh too much about it folks 😆😆😆
It´s great if you volunteer services for South Front. I agree this and the other sources you mentioned deserve support.
However, if you do voice overs – I must admit I thought these were computerised because pronunciation errors are far too frequent and egregious. The videos would be massively improved if you learned some basics of pronunciation of Russian and Ukrainian names and toponyms.
Off Topic: What’s up, Southfront? I cannot access your site without VPN atm. New EU blacklist?
Works without a VPN from UK although RT.com is blocked.by my ISP
Try changing your dns to an alternative server
Censorship is a sign of weakness on the part of the evil but stupid ones
@King Alfred
I agree, as who ever censors others opinion is a enemy of God, and an embarassing weakling, what is why all jewish and communist garbage creatures always hate freedom of speech, as well as all souveran national weapon bearing folks and nations creating own independent economy and money-system.
It is easy to grasp the dynamics completely the moment you started finding the entrance. Then you’ll understand the interdependencies in the different governments and jewish controlled slave-colonies, can see through the fog and will also find lots of true freedom fighters you’ve never heard of. And that are those men and women in Russia, USA, Canada, UK and Germany who dare to speak out the truth about those behind all this wars, the covid-hoax, the holohoax, the 9-11 scam, the globo-homo agenda, the climate-hoax etc. etc. See for example:
https://odysee.com/@BrianRuhe:b/The-Biological-Response—Alfred-Schaefer-and-Diane-Chase—Part-1-of-2-(2):6
https://odysee.com/@BrianRuhe:b/The-Biological-Response—Alfred-Schaefer-and-Diane-Chase—Part-2-of-2:1
Very interesting and we all here can learn a lot from the above discussion (titled: The Biological Response), and the truth which is pointed out in that interview.
“as who ever censors others opinion is a enemy of God” – like Russia, where you get 15 years jail for telling the truth? 😆😆😆
In Russia and China this is mostly confined to national security issues, unlike in the West where people go to prison (see latest case in Norway: Tonje Gjevjon) for purely ideological reasons, like telling the truth that there are only two biological sexes and so called “transwomen” are in fact men.
@Steinfranz
I thumbed up you post, even though it is partly incorrect.
Go to Russia, tell there that Russia is controlled by stinking despictable lying jewish communists, who took over the country in 1917, murdered between 20-30 mio russians, and are still today fully in control and their jewish political commissar puppet Putin again forcing innocent christian russians into certain death, this time into the Ukrainian meatgrinder.
I want you to prove your statement that in Russia you not go to jail for telling the truth !!!! Please go and do this statement in the open there, or put your name and adress and then do it on a large russian TV show or online channel. I wonder how long you will be free in Russia before Putin-police arrests you.
You wanna give it a try ??? Nah ?
I don’t know. Putin is no communist, until recently there was this organization in Russia that “researched the crimes of the Bolsheviks”, Memorial it’s called I believe, and afaik it was even partially funded by the government. But now it has been outlawed because the West would depict what happened one-sidedly, tag early Bolshevik actions on today’s non-Bolshevik Russia and utilize this NGO for destabilization operations within Russia. So it’s a question of counter-espionage and national security.
Anyhow, most of the people who came to damage in that period did so by errors of the 5-year plan or of the centrally planned economy. If you consider people who died by starvation or other planning errors, like in the so called “Holodomor”, as murder victims, the Western global capitalism murdered – by mal-allocation of resources – several hundred million people world-wide.
The intrinsic mechanisms of Marxism-Leninism, or Bolshevism, if rightly applied, must not necessarily produce undesired effects. It’s a theoretical and practical tool, the main parts or starting points of Marxism being German dialectics (Hegel), English economics (Adam Smith) and French early socialism (Proudhon and so on). I think the theoretical corpus should be taken and modernized, re-formed into something that fits into a larger picture but can be activated when useful, while remaining true to (fulfilling) certain dialectical total goals. Rightly modernized and applied dialectics can produce the desired effects for atm contradictory goal sets, like Western (right-wing) populists who right now oppose the West and third-world or global south countries, like South Africa, who also do.
Psiphon3 works quite well and will get you to RT and all other banned sites.
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yescensoring shows the censor is afraid of what the censored person wrote
The sooner the tranny-communist-LGBTROFLWTFBBQ deep state junta is humiliated out of ever trying a stupid stunt such as attempting a proxy war with Russia, the better off the world will be.
The sooner Russia wins this, the sooner the people of western nations can direct their animus toward the blatantly awful and anti-human policies of their respective governments.
Never will happen in the West buddy!!! Keep dreaming! There are higher chances than JesusChrist is real and coming back again from heaven than what you think could happen in the West… …told be truth: everything will be the same in the West, just our Big Brother dont want us to talk to Russia, China or Iran anymore or they will destroy us with LGBTIAQ+ and Hollywood movies, if we obey our puppets goverments would let us live in Freedom World! *sarcasm shield off* you must live in the West to complitely understand How this System Works
You don’t think, you’re so wrong my friend, IT’S ALREADY HAPPENING.
It’s already happening in Canada, and it will spread, and once Russia has secured the east, the dominoes will fall all throughout westernized NATO countries.
Alberta has already constitutionally distanced itself from its own federal government, Alberta is likely to see constitutional rights to firearms for citizens in our lifetime while the pozzed up leftist provinces wither.
The neoliberal deep state has a weakness and as long as people are willing to fight and band together, the neoliberal deep state can lose.
I believe Russia can win and thus humiliate and destabilize the satanic elite that owns the West. However if not, everything must be done to prevent them from establishing their woke-dictatorship, which includes that you will have to freely and willingly give up your own children to Sodomite indoctrination and physical mutilation. You even have to celebrate it (“gender affirmation”) when Satan comes to devour children, your own children.
I hope Russia wins, and goes on to smash the Anglo Saxon empire. Then maybe I don’t have to eat bugs, not be a sinner for driving a gasoline powered car and can be free of the woke crap.
Correction cia/nazi reicht woke capitalists,nothing communist about eugeddon or britain or usa(period)
” Andrew Milburn … He puts casualties at at least 70%. He points out that the UAF in Bakhmut are virtually untrained Ukrainian troops, easy meat for Russia’s seasoned veterans.”
@Ukraine friends , read this paragraph carefully and then try to calculate realistic. The numbers support the estimation of Ursula von der Leyen.
Maybe you will be winning some day , but actually don’t flood us here with ridiculous propaganda.
The russian 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade has been completely annihilated by Ukrainian Forces, don’t laugh too much about it folks.
And in Bakhmut, the situation is an horror for russian orcs with a ratio of 1:10, meaning for each killed Ukrainian 10 russian nazis bite the dust. The russian army is one of the worst in the world, before the war nobody could have known that the RuAF is so ineffective and worthless 🤣🤣🤣
It’s also so funny that most russian speaking Ukrainians which were for Putin before the war support Selensky now 😆😆😆
That’s why Ukraine is requiring more and more recruits to be trained in the UK right?
Because Ukraine keeps asking for money and weapons that are being consistently destroyed at a rate that exceeds replenishment. This is already becoming a proportionately more expensive war than anything we’ve seen in Afghanistan in terms of how much money is being appointed and the rate at which it is being appointed.
I will enjoy laughing at you when Ukraine admits they have nothing left to fight Russia with.
That’s the same guy since months I believe. NATO disinformation campaign. Or a guy acting independently for this alienated agenda. I just read a publicly available NATO paper on that topic and it is ongoing since at least 2016, more likely 2014. The paper admits it. But what has it produced? That more and more people in the West started to see the establishment for what it is: detached from the peoples, morally bankrupt, hell-bend to establish some sort of woke capitalist, globo homo global dictatorship.
the best comment of today… Not too much words in your comment but your aimed right on the Spot…. boooyaaa! a 100% score!. Im glad to read you Mr. Stainfranz and thank you for share your thoughts
Well spaken,lest not be deluded by any cia/soros slang against communions (peoples party)
Have a happy delusional Christmas.
I can care less about what Western media reports. I don’t read them at all.
Agreed,pathedic irrelevant garbage features that benefits absolutely no one,so why bother at all then.
I was sympathetic for Ukraine back in March/April, but when their soldiers tarted to kill more and more civilians in Donbass, showing with proud their Swastika and Nazi tattoos (first I thought this is R. propaganda, but then , after visiting Ukrainian channels, I understood that the evil among them is real).. so I changed the sides. Now I am pro Russia.
The russian 200th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade has been completely annihilated by Ukrainian Forces, don’t laugh too much about it folks, it was one of the best unit (almost all units of the RuAF are miserable) 😆😆😆
The ratio in Bakhmut is about 1:10, meaning for each killed Ukrainian 10 russian nazis bite the dust. The russian army is one of the worst in the world, before the war nobody could have known that the RuAF is so ineffective 🤡🤡🤡
One funny thing is that most russian speaking Ukrainians which were for Putin before the war now support Selensky.
Thx, clown Putin 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Go back to the toilet and eat the shit you love so much. The moment you called Russians Nazi, you have proven you’re the mouthpiece who loves spewing lies for the evil west and loves sucking their dicks.
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Begone poof,you got nothing (period) enjoy hyperinflation beggotten good for nothing lying fascist pig!
Eight years into the ATO ethnic cleansing program and the most significant crop growing on the territory of the failed Ukrainian CIA project is triple-dong dildo flags on the tens of thousands of graves of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
Hearing from Western independent media sources that Bukhmut has become a vortex for Kiev regime forces with heavy losses casually rates are at levels that it is not possible for Kiev to replace those losses even using Western mercenaries to fill the gap is impossible. Hospital’s in Kiev are no longer excepting patients as the casually numbers arriving from the Bukhmut area are excessive and non stop!
UCRANIA PIERDE UN BATALLON ENTERO POR DIA !!! BUENO YA SABEMOS QUIEN GANO ESTA GUERRA !!!
Anyone quoting the disbarred lawyer Alexander Mercouris is not serious. MoA, Larry Johnson ? Come on. It is one thing to be pro Russian but another to disregard any news that goes against your bias. The “quality” of commentators is a good indicator of any blog. Commentators on this site behave like mentally deranged teenagers.
Larry Johnson was up to his neck in the Anti-Nicaraguan Contras.