Daily Chronicles

The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world (and a joke or two) for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.  Rough theme: Megaphones change hands.

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June 7

More terrorism …

Ukrainian saboteurs blew up an ammonia pipeline in the Kharkiv region

https://ria.ru/20230607/diversiya-1876702010.html

UPDATE:  Comment by Maria Zakharova

💬 On June 5, in the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there was an explosion of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline , the very object of civilian infrastructure that is so often mentioned in the context of the Black Sea Initiative. <…>

Already now it can be stated that the only party that was never interested in reanimating the pipeline was the Kiev regime . <…>

The scenario for further actions is known, worked out at Nord Stream. Given yesterday’s collapse of the information mainstream of the collective West, I want to see if they will go the same way again, will they also be able to find an opportunity to blame Russia, or will they have the conscience to look for saboteurs somewhere in the Bankovaya area?

Does anyone else in the West have doubts that the Kiev regime will stop at something? Do they really have doubts that if they are now blackmailing the collective West, demanding more and more money and weapons, then they will not move from words to deeds? <…> If anyone has any doubts that the Kiev regime will not later turn its terrorist insides against its own creators, they are cruelly mistaken. Unfortunately, then it will be too late.

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The ammonia pipeline was one of the core tasks as part of the work on the implementation of the package agreements concluded in Istanbul on July 22, 2022. The facility was of key importance in terms of ensuring global food security. About 2 million tons of raw materials for the production of fertilizers were pumped through it per year, sufficient to feed 45 million people .

Thus, the Kiev regime did more than just eliminate the physical possibility of supplying ammonia to world markets.

❗️ A blow has been dealt to the common efforts to combat the threat of famine and to provide assistance to the needy countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, as well as to the personal efforts of the UN Secretary General A. Guterres, who came up with a separate initiative on the ammonia pipeline, and in general proposed the “Istanbul package”, the humanitarian value of which is depreciating before our eyes.

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June 7

Yesterday indeed was a day of major import.   There is more and more coverage that Kakhovskaya decided to break up all by itself and if it did not, every globalist Western stooge is out on their platforms shouting Russia Did It.

The level of deceit in Western MSM has never been this noisy.

We even have news from Annalena Bearbock who is out in Brazil displaying the intelligence of a Kartoffel while trying to blow air into the fast-disintegrating Ukrainian balloon. She took out her scourging whip and accused and lambasted them of being more interested in how much rice and beans in the supermarkets and not interested in Ukraine.  How terrible for the Brazilian government to be interested in what amounts to be the food backbone of their own country.  Black Beans to you Bearbock!  Spare our world from your bleatings and go home!

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June 7

Ukraine forces continue to commit suicide with Russian weapons.  Russia continues to denazify and demilitarize.

💥The Armed Forces of Ukraine, having failed to achieve the offensive objectives and suffered significant losses in South Donetsk direction, made the attempts to break the defence of Russian troops in Donetsk direction close to Artyomovsk.

◽️The enemy haven’t achieved the objective of the offensive. No incursion into Russian defence has been allowed.  https://t.me/mod_russia_en/7743

In the video just posted, Ukraine offensive – with Scott Ritter and Andrei Martyanov, they talk about the ‘butcher bill’. Yesterday’s butcher bill came to 415 Ukrainian servicemen.

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June 7

From China and Asia-Pacific surrounds, we have two trends.  The one is the steady encroachment of NATO and the other one is an aggressive anti-China propaganda campaign staffed with many groups and organizations and lots of money behind it.  Here is an example of both:

WHILE CHINA BUILDS SCHOOLS AND AIRPORTS IN PNG, US MILITARY SIGNS SECRET DEAL FOR WAR BASE

THE BRUTAL MISSION by the United States to rule Asia and threaten China took another step forward in Papua New Guinea this week – but ordinary people are fighting back.

The US signed a… pic.twitter.com/dvgeZblqur

— Nury Vittachi (@NuryVittachi) May 26, 2023

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June 6

Right.  I thought it could not get hotter.  Chinese, Russian militaries hold joint aerial strategic patrol in Asia-Pacific region amid US-led provocations.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1292028.shtml

Right right!  Nothing to see here.  It is just routine?  Yes?

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June 6

Smoothie has the scoop.  He has some Leopards in his sights.  Enjoy!  http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/06/first-proof.html

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June 6

Peskov: The President receives reports from the Ministry of Defense and other services about what is happening around the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

Here we can already unequivocally state that we are talking about a deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side. This sabotage could potentially lead to very serious consequences for the inhabitants of the region and environmental consequences. In addition, this sabotage aims to deprive the Crimea of water supply.

Apparently, this sabotage is also connected with the fact that, having launched large-scale offensive operations two days ago, the Ukrainian armed forces are now not achieving their goals.

These offensive actions are choking. Here we are clearly talking about a deliberate sabotage by the Ukrainian side, which was planned and carried out by order from Kiev, from the Kiev regime.

I’ll open a thread on this. 

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June 5

The Russian MoD made a special briefing.  Here it is:

During June 5, the enemy continued the offensive, concentrating the main efforts on Vremevka outpost in South Donetsk direction.

◽️Having suffered heavy losses the day before, the Kiev regime reorganised the remnants of the 23rd and 31st mechanised brigades into separate combined units, which continued the offensive operations close to Novodarovka and Levadnoye. In addition, a new brigade was brought into the action in this area.

◽️At the same time, the enemy launched an offensive in the direction of Oktyabrsky state farm and Novodonetskoye by the 37th Marine Infantry Brigade with the reinforcements based on the units of the AFU 68th Mountain Jaeger Brigade.

💥The enemy was attacked with a comprehensive fire attack by Army, Ground-Assault and Operational-Tactical aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery, as well as heavy flamethrower systems.

💥As a result of active and self-sacrificing actions of the Vostok Group of Forces, which displayed courage and heroism, the enemy has been stopped, and the set tasks haven’t been achieved. The AFU formations and military units suffered significant losses.

◽️Total AFU losses in South Donetsk direction were over 1,500 Ukrainian servicemen, 28 tanks, including FRG-manufactured 8 Leopard tanks, three French-manufactured AMX-10 wheeled tanks and 109 armoured fighting vehicles.

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June 5 – Some reports filtered in that over the previous 2 x 24 hour periods, 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in action.  So multiply that by either 2 or 3, to get to the rule of thumb for injuries that will remove a soldier from battle.  The X 2 number then gets us to 4,000 and the X 3 number gets us to 6,000 additional bodies.  To put this in perspective, the Ukraine lost +- 6 to 8,000 troops from the battlefield in the past 48 hours.  I keep a watch on these numbers as a personal litmus test.  My previous number was 600 Ukrainian soldiers over one day.  The 2,000 number is stunning and I went to confirm it, counting quite laboriously the reports from the Russian MoD for the past 2 x 24 hour periods.  It is near as dammit correct.

Imagine a military losing 6 to 8,000 troops in 48 hours.  Kindly follow my reasoning here and tell me if I am incorrect.

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June 5 – Some sort of Ukrainian offensive

From RuMod:

In the morning of 4 June 2023, the enemy launched a large-scale offensive at five sections of the front in Southern Donetsk direction by introducing into combat 23rd and 31st mechanised brigades from the strategic reserves of the AFU, supported by other military units and divisions.

◽️ A total of six mechanised and two tank battalions of the enemy were involved.

◽️ The enemy’s goal was to break through Russia’s defences in what it considered to be the most vulnerable area of the front.

◽️ The enemy was unsuccessful in achieving its goals.

◽️ As a result of skilful and competent actions of the Vostok Group of Forces, the losses of the AFU amounted to more than 250 troops, 16 tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, 21 armoured fighting vehicles.

◽️ Commander of the combined group of forces – Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation General of the Army V.V. Gerasimov was at one of the forward command and control posts in this direction during this period.

Gerasimov himself was right there in the middle right at the command post where the Ukrainian offensive started toward the Zaporozhye direction.  We can then be confident that Russia has a high level of awareness of the enemy’s deployment and plans.  If one follows the always terse and scarce comments from the RuMod, the Russian forces threw harsh firepower to this, one could say lame, offensive.  With a rare burst of passion in these dry and factual accounts, they even used the word ‘annihilated’ in further comments,  The Russian flamethrowers were busy!  Ukraine offered up another 250 (stated conservatively and not counting the injured that cannot return to the battlefield which could be X2 or X3 of the kia number) soldiers from their reserves.   But it is so that Ukraine must do something to deserve all the weapons and money that are poured into this war by the West.  Much money of course does not reach, and JP Morgan and Blackrock and similar vulture investment funds are buying up whatever their eyes see, the principle being ‘buy when there is blood in the streets’.  It will be a joy for me when they lose their investments and lose them, they will.

The early news is that the Ukrops started a new offensive early this morning – more fighters and a little better organized.  This accursed war continues with NATO not understanding that they will not defeat Russia, not operationally and not strategically, they will not break Russia into various little countries of their design, and the one that will remain standing after the killing, will be Russia and not NATO.

The result of this much-vaunted Ukrainian offensive yesterday is that Russia has started annihilating the Ukrainian military reserves, as they will annihilate the 40 to 60 thousand soldiers reportedly in various stages of training in NATO countries.  It seems as if NATO has decided that perhaps it is more profitable to fall back to China and the South China seas, the general area of Asia-Pacific, which they call Indo-Pacific.  We have news for them.  There Be Dragons!

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June 5

Three Billion Bonanza for Argentina as China Invest in Infrastructure Projects.  In meetings held in Beijing the Argentinian delegation led by Minister of Economy Sergio Massa saw companies from China agree to partner with the country.  Sergio Massa, said that the plans “allow us to continue taking care of the foreign exchange reserves”.

We hope that the motivation here is to assist Argentina out of its toxic IMF loans.

A little more …

Argentina renewed and extended the yuan swap to US$ 10 billion, with China to support its entry into the BRICS bloc.

After the four-day visit led by the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, a work plan was announced totaling investments of more than US$ 3 billion, including agreements to open agricultural markets.

In addition, the first direct flight between the two countries will take place this year, visa procedures will be reduced to one week, and Chinese electronic means of payment will be allowed in Argentina.

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June 4

On this day in the Western media, the topic of the 1989 Tiananmen Square “Student Massacre” becomes a big stick to try and hit China with.  But, it was a hoax.  Pepe says it was a failed CIA-conducted proto-color revolution.

For those who still do not know:  https://www.criticalsocialworkpublishinghouse.com/post/1989-tiananmen-square-student-massacre-was-a-hoax

And Jeff J Brown made his massive archive available again for researchers:   https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2023/06/02/this-webpage-has-by-far-the-biggest-and-best-library-of-articles-videos-podcasts-and-images-about-1989s-tiananmen-square-protests-something-for-everyone-china-rising-radio-sinoland-continually-u/

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June 4

Western Journalists Banned From ‘Russian Davos’

This is a devastating asymmetric answer to the US not supplying visas for Lavrov’s UNSC visit and various other examples of withholding of visas of Russian participants at European formal structures.

News organizations from “unfriendly” countries have been banned from the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), the Kremlin said on Saturday, confirming earlier reports.

“A decision has been made this time not to provide accreditation … to publications from unfriendly countries,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told news agency TASS.

“The interest regarding SPIEF is always big so other journalists will be working at the event,” the spokesman added.

Russia takes the Megaphone!

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June 4

Chinese warship buzzes US destroyer in Taiwan Strait (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/18065).

The footage here shows the moment Chinese craft comes within 150 yards of USS Chung-Hoon, which was transiting the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing https://t.me/IntelRepublic/21402.

Chinese Defense Ministry says it must prevent any attempts to use freedom of navigation in Strait as opportunity to exercise “hegemony of navigation”.

This was part of the backdrop at the Shangri-La Dialogue.  https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1291897.shtml .  The run-up to this Dialogue reads like a Western regime change operation.  The imperialists get so many headwinds, that they have to resort to beating their breasts at limited conferences.

On Sunday, China took the megaphone.   More coming in later.

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June 4

It is now becoming routine:

◽️The Russian Armed Forces launched a long-range air-based high-precision weaponry strike against the enemy targets at the military airfields.

◽️The goal of the attack has been reached. The command posts, radar stations, Ukrainian aviation equipment, as well as ammunition depots, have been hit.

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June 4

The Peace Train:   Indonesia jumps on:

Indonesian DefMin Prabowo Subianto made the proposition at the Shangri-La Dialogue meeting, with a ceasefire at present positions & creation of a DMZ within 15 km from the frontline.  It included a call for a UN referendum for citizens in the ‘various disputed areas’.

Kiev has already rejected the proposal, saying that it would mean Russia wins.

All of the half-baked peace proposals want new referenda to hide their own inability to create a viable peace proposal.  And then the rest of it is based on the original Minsk Packages of Measures.  In my rough tabulation of what it is worth, for Indonesia I award 1/10, ten being viable.

It is the flavor of the month to make a peace proposal.

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