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Hello and welcome to another episode of Battleground with me, Patrick Bishop and Saul David.

This week, the situation in Ukraine appears to be stuck in limbo, with no movement to report either on the battlefield or in the diplomatic sphere.

Nor is there any sign of any end to the suffering of Ukrainian civilians.

Donald Trump's week-long pausing Russian attacks,

which he secured from Putin on power infrastructure,

came to an end at the beginning of week,

and Moscow's cynical and deadly campaign to freeze the population into submission carries on unabated.

That was heralded with a massive bombardment at the start of the week when temperatures were plunging towards minus 20.

So all pretty depressing, I saw.

Yeah, and I'll come on to that in a minute, Patrick.

But what is not depressing is the fact that we've got our old friend

Julius Strauss joining us, who's been reporting actually fascinating information he's got

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