All right, Alexander, let's do an update as to what is happening in the conflict in Ukraine.

And let's start off with what is happening on the front lines.

And I guess since we're going to talk about kind of a military update, we absolutely should talk about

what happened in Belgorod, Donetsk City, as well as the Russian strikes, which were really

throughout Ukraine.

And we also had Russian strikes, which I believe sent an interesting message that actually targeted the university

where Bandera attended.

And I think that that sends a very strong message to Ukraine and to the collective West.

But let's just do a general update on the front lines.

Then we can talk about the escalation in Belgorod, Donetsk City, and elsewhere.

Interesting situation on the front lines, of course the Russians are on the

offensive pretty much everywhere now. They're advancing, they continue to advance in Avdavka.

This is the most difficult battle. The Ukrainians are throwing every conceivable reserve that

they have to try to hold the line in Avdyevka. They've decided that this is the

linchpin of their entire defence system. We see again quarrels between the Ukrainian leaders about

what to do with Avdafka. We see Zaluzni saying that, you know, the Russians are going to capture it in two or three months,

which may be true, it may be an optimistic, it may fall sooner, it may fall later,

but the point is, if you tell soldiers who are fighting to defend Avdafka that this town is going to be captured eventually,

then they're going to start

wondering inevitably what it is that they're doing there. But anyway, that was illusionally.

That was the general. Zelensky, however, he actually traveled to Avdavka, or so we are told.

I've now read inevitably some people who are wondering whether that

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