All right, Alexander, let's do an update on what is going on in Ukraine.

And I think we have to start off with Avdyevka.

The situation is moving fast, actually, and it's moving in a very bad direction for Ukraine and for the Alasky regime.

So what is the situation with Avdefka?

I think you've put your finger on it.

It's moving much faster than I think nearly anybody.

Almost anyone up to this point had expected.

I mean, the expectation was that the fighting in

Avdavka was going to last go on for months, that this is an enormously heavily fortified area,

that it would be only one, you know, block at a time and one building and one structure at a time.

And in fact, things are moving remarkably fast. So the thing to

understand about of Dejvka is that the Russians launched a series of offensives in this area

back in March and then they stopped whilst the Ukrainian offensive of the summer got underway.

The moment the Ukrainian offensive ended, they resumed their attacks around Avdewka.

But what they achieved in the fighting in March and early April was that they captured some important villages

to the west, to the northwest and to the southwest of Avdewka.

So Avdevka is now very much in a salient.

It is surrounded by the Russians on three sides.

Now, it is a heavily fortified area, or so we were told.

But what happened over the weekend is that the Russians broke through some of the most heavy defences

in the southeast part of Avdavka, and it seems the northwest part of Avdavka. So there was an industrial area to the south-southwest of Avdavka,

which was, if you actually look at a map of Avdavka, it goes right up to the boundary of the

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