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US Media now confirm that Russia is advancing on the city of Kupyansk in Kharkov region – and is poised to take it. See this.
We talk about a Ukrainian evacuation not only of Kupyansk, a major railway hub, but of Ukraine evacuating in total 53 settlements in the region. With 100,000 Russian troops in the region, and ever-thinner Ukrainian reserves, this is going to be a big Russian offensive – and defeat for Ukraine. As usual, Ukraine will fight their losing position to the last Ukrainian, after which the subsequent Russian victory and advance in Ukraine will only be even larger.
I wrote 10 August 2023 to a number of my recipients, that this is a turning point in the Ukraine war. Ukraine is exhausting its offensive capabilities without having achieved anything, and Russia is now moving to take a strategic city. After that, everything will only get worse and worse for Ukraine.
As for the linked New York Times article’s talk of Russian “torture”, that is unsubstantiated, unlike Ukraine use of torture. Ukraine’s SBU uses thugs to torture and scrape the white out of the eyes of their victims with a toothpick, threatening to put the toothpick into his eye to blind him. Just have a listen to Gonzalo Lira, who is a US citizen right now in the torture-custody of the Ukrainian SBU.
No, Gonzalo didn’t make it to the Hungarian border. Gonzalo, who has a heart condition, is now facing 5-10 years imprisonment and near-certain death in Ukrainian prison for using his free speech. This is how prisons work in US “friendly countries” like the “democratic” Ukraine. The US embassy of course does nothing for their own citizen Gonzalo Lira detained for a free-speech “crime”. US media is silent too about the fate of their fellow countryman Gonzalo Lira. After all, US media are affiliated with the US deep state which for decades and decades runs a whole school in Fort Benning where they instruct fascist paramilitaries like the SBU how to do torture and commit these things.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
