As reported "imminent" on the Hal Turner Radio Show last night (Friday 19 May) Bakhmut, Ukraine has finally and officially been liberated by Russia; the Ukrainian NAZIS are defeated and have fled. | Leader of the Wagner PMC, Prigozhin made the announcement personally, with his Wagner troops inside Bakhmut city. This victory will have severe implications for Ukraine NAZIS, who now will have great difficulty supplying troops in the entire south of Ukraine. All major rail lines previously used to supply Ukraine troops, ran through Bakhmut, as did several major highways. Now, the Russians control the entire city, and those Ukraine military supplies cannot get through. Prigozhin says that his Wagner troops will leave Bakhmut on the 25th, being relieved by the Russian Army. They will get some (well-deserved) rest, then likely be assigned to another city target; rumors suggest Odessa.

Jonathan Cook | Israel’s undoing will not be an attack from Arab states or international sanctions. Rather, its leaders have created a monster they can no longer tame | As Israel celebrates its 75th anniversary, the state-building project it cemented into place in 1948 by expelling 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland is showing the first signs of unraveling. ● The surprise is that Israel’s woes spring not, as generations of its leaders feared, from outside forces – a combined attack from Arab states or pressure from the international community – but from Israel’s own internal contradictions. ● Israeli leaders created the very problems they all too obviously lack the tools to now solve. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bombardment of Gaza in recent days, killing dozens of Palestinians, should be understood in that light. It is one more indication of Israel’s internal crisis. Once again, the Palestinians are being used in a frantic bid to shore up an increasingly fragile “Jewish” unity.

■ 15 May – Commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba at UN Headquarters in New York (05/15/23)

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev warned on Friday that a radioactive cloud was heading towards Western Europe following the destruction of a Ukrainian warehouse storing British-supplied depleted uranium ammunition. | Sputnik News spoke with Dr. Chris Busby, physical chemist and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, about how the West’s decision to provide depleted uranium (DU) ammunition to Ukraine has potentially caused a continent-wide ecological disaster. Below is his answer in full.[...] Those who provide the weapons, the UK government in this case, are morally bankrupt. Unless it is their intention to destroy the Ukrainian people. Who knows anymore? The world has gone mad.

President Aleksandar Vucic said his intelligence links tipped him off to foreign-funded revolutionaries lurking among protesters | Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday that his intelligence contacts tipped him off about the presence of foreign-sponsored revolutionaries at so-called anti-violence rallies in Belgrade. The West, he declared, has been “causing problems” for Serbia ever since Belgrade refused “to hand them Kosovo on a platter. Thousands of protesters and a group of opposition politicians marched in Belgrade on Friday, demanding the resignation of Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic and intelligence chief Aleksandar Vulin. Successive demonstrations have been held in the Serbian capital since 17 people – including eight children – were killed in a pair of back-to-back mass shootings earlier this month. ● According to RT Balkan, some of the demonstrators on Friday demanded that Vucic also step down.

■ US involved in assassination of Russian public figures – Moscow (RT.com)