Scott Ritter says he stands by his opinion that the Russia-Ukraine war will be over by the end of the summer / late August; or thereabouts. He may be correct.
Below is a Tweet (not from Scott Ritter):
Counteroffensive update 17th June evening:
The massacre near Orekhovo - even experienced officers have never seen something like this.
The AFU went on the offensive in large numbers today. Ukrainian infantry moved forward with the support of NATO tanks and armored vehicles. After a heavy and long battle, within a day, this Ukrainian assault battalion was completely destroyed.
What happened today near Orekhovo was a Slaughter!!!
One gets the impression that NATO members gave Kiev a very "hard deadline". Time is limited, since the NATO summit is on July 11-12th.
Only one problem the Russian army is strong, but this should have not been an obstacle to the plans of Washington and London.
Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow there will be many new videos of damaged equipment. There is a lot of it - dozens of units.
But the worst thing is not even that. The worst thing is the loss of personnel. The AFU was not even able evacuate the wounded from there.
Experienced Russian officers are shocked by what they saw today. They have never seen such a massacre (according to them), and such a disregard for the life of soldiers, Ukrainian soldiers.
-> Russian positions have already been restored near Orekhov. It was all for nothing.
— Source Yurasumy & Sladkov
Ukrainian Head of Intelligence Is Missing – General Budanov Hasn’t Been Seen in 17 Days – Russian Media Says He Was Wounded, Evacuated to Germany – Kiev Denies, Putin Confirms Attack on GRU Headquarters
UKRAINIAN ADVANCES END IN COMPLETE DISASTER
Video: War in Ukraine and Media Lies. Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
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Was the Kiev regime behind the plot to blow-up the Kakhovka dam? “A war crime” against the Ukrainian people, instigated by the Zelensky government?
The mainstream media in chorus blames Russia.
Ask yourself, why on earth would Russia flood its own positions within the territories under its control?
Our message to MSM journalists: It’s “elementary logic”. Use your common sense.
Why would they do it? A “Russian Roulette style ritual Hara-kiri” ordered by the Kremlin?
Video Interview: Michel Chossudovsky
For further details see:
Russia Forewarned UNSC and UN Secretary General of Kiev’s Plan to Destroy the Kakhovskaya Dam
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, June 07, 2023
MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY - WAR IN UKRAINE & MEDIA LIES
PUTIN CAUTION ON RESERVE ARMY, "UKRAINE REGROUPING", "RUSSIAN MINEFIELDS MAKE COUNTEROFFENSIVE SLOW"
Kiev Calls GENERAL Mobilization - ALL Males 18-65 Must enter military within 10 days
General mobilization announced in Kiev.
In the Obolonsky district of Kiev, the mobilization of citizens liable for military service was announced - even those who did not receive a summons should appear at the local military registration and enlistment office.
In the event that the people of Kiev, falling under the mobilization, do not comply with this requirement, they fall under criminal liability.
General mobilization was also announced in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.
(VIDEO) THE MOMENT THE STORM SHADOW MISSILE HITS THE CHONGAR BRIDGE.
A RUSSIAN PANTSIR-S1 AIR DEFENSE SYSTEM ATTEMPTED TO SHOOT DOWN A 
STORM SHADOW CRUISE MISSILE
RUSSIAN LANCET-3 KAMIKAZE DRONE UAV HITTING GERMAN LEOPARD 2A6 TANK IN ZAPORIZHYE UKRAINE
War is really good for business, Ukraine is good for business
By Rhoda Wilson on June 22, 2023 BlackRock Inc is the world’s largest asset management company that’s gained more notoriety as of late due to its large acquisitions. A BlackRock recruiter said it’s easier for BlackRock to do things when “people aren’t thinking about it” and the asset giant “doesn’t want to be anywhere on the radar. This story is a peek into why.
Serge Varlay, a recruiter for BlackRock, told an O’Keefe Media journalist that BlackRock manages $20 trillion dollars worldwide. According to him, “it’s incomprehensible numbers.” BlackRock has over $9.5 trillion of assets under management, that’s larger than the GDP of all countries on the globe except the US and China.
“You can take this big f*** ton of money and buy people, I work for a company called BlackRock…It’s not who is the president it’s who is controlling the wallet of the president. You could buy your candidates. First, there is the senators these guys are fuckin cheap. Got 10 grand you can buy a senator I’ll give you 500k right now It doesn’t matter who wins they’re in my pocket,” he said.
Varlay doesn’t stop there, he goes on to describe what those in his line of work think of the tragedy of war saying its “real f***ing good for business”.
Taken from the video: Serge Verlay /10/'23 recruter for Blackrock. "All these financial institutions, they buy politicians".
BREAKING: BlackRock Recruiter Who ‘Decides People’s Fate’ Says ‘War is Good for Business’
BlackRock Recruiter Who ‘Decides People’s Fate’ Says ‘War is Good for Business’
“Ukraine is good for business, you know that right? Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos and the price of wheat is going to go mad up. The Ukrainian economy is the wheat market. The price of bread goes up, this is fantastic if you’re trading. Volatility creates opportunity for profit…”
War is really good for business, Ukraine is good for business
UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS TRAPPED IN A MINEFIELD
The Zaporizhzhia massacre … from the first days when they rushed with Bradleys.
Ukrainians can’t break through our defenses – Chechen commander
https://www.rt.com/russia/578932-akhmat-alaudinov-ukraine-offensive/
Ukraine’s much-heralded attack has not been able to breach any of the Russian defensive lines, but Kiev keeps sending men to their deaths, the commander of the Chechen special force ‘Akhmat’, Apty Alaudinov, told Russia 1 TV on Thursday.
“The picture we see is that the enemy, having reached our first line of defense, can’t advance through it. We warned them about this. They realistically do not have the forces and resources, for all that they’ve built them up, to break through our three echelons,” Alaudinov said on the ‘60 Minutes’ evening news show.
“Let them waste [their people], as they planned, to the last Ukrainian. They only make things worse for themselves. The realistic result, I’ve always said, will be the same. We will definitely win this battle,” he added.
Later, on his Telegram channel, Alaudinov repeated that Ukrainian forces “did not even pass our first line of defense in any sector.” While Kiev’s troops have “temporarily occupied” some patches of land here and there, none of those positions pose a strategic threat, he maintained.
Alaudinov also downplayed the small Ukrainian presence near the destroyed Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson, calling it a public relations stunt without any significant military results – but at the cost of high casualties as Russian forces “systematically destroy them.”
The Ukrainian offensive, which was originally supposed to begin in the spring, kicked off on June 4 on the southern front. Kiev had hoped for a battlefield victory ahead of the July 11 NATO summit in Lithuania.
A series of company-sized attacks ran into minefields, artillery fire, attack helicopters and dug-in infantry and tanks. Russian President Vladimir Putin has described Kiev’s losses as “catastrophic,” and ten times greater than Moscow’s.
In the three weeks of heavy fighting, Kiev’s forces have suffered upwards of 13,000 casualties, along with hundreds of tanks and other armored vehicles, many supplied by the West.
Aleksey Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, acknowledged on Wednesday that the fighting is “hard work” and asked the West to have patience.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky admitted that his troops had encountered “very tough resistance” on the ground. Meanwhile, Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov has tried to present the attacks as a “preparation operation,” and not the offensive itself.
Ukraine will need 117 years to take territories from Russia – Seymour Hersh
The $150 billion spent by the US in Ukraine is a “very bad investment,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter claimed.
BRADLEY VEHICLES DISABLED BY RUSSIAN FORCES
The UN and nato are giving Putin tons of scrap metal.