All right, Alexander, let's talk about Ukraine and what is happening on the front lines.

What is happening on, not on the front lines.

We have some interesting statements from Udanov.

Kind of admitted that the counteroffensive has failed.

Yeah.

And it has failed.

Yes.

It has failed.

And the Russians are advancing uh no big arrow

offenses they're just doing what the russians have been doing from day uh one exactly grinding

grinding uh grinding things uh out and they're grinding ukraine down uh what's going on on that's

exactly what that is exactly what is happening.

I mean, Budana made, gave a most interesting interview with Ukrainska Pravda. And of course,

you know, you have to unscramble it a little, but basically he just said, I mean, you know,

our army is out of, you know, we're out of schedule, whatever that's intended to mean, but the reality is,

what you were saying is our offensive has failed. We haven't broken through. We haven't broken

through in any part of the front line, in any place where we were attacking, all those tens

of thousands of men who have died or been

critically wounded over the last few months. That has all happened to them for nothing. All that

machinery or that expensive machinery we got from the West. That's all been burnt up. The,

you know, the tanks, the, all of those things.

And we're now critically short of shells. Of course, he didn't say that, but we all know

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