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

Lots of cauldrons in Dombasa. A lot of cauldrons are forming in Dombas.

And it does look like Zelensky is more focused on Kursk and Harkov and the north of the front lines.

We are also getting some reports saying that the Ukraine military is starting to prepare

fortifications in Dnipro-Petrosk in that region, anticipating a Russian advance towards that major city.

Anyway, what are your thoughts on what is happening on the front lines?

This is exactly correct.

I think what we are now seeing, and we're seeing it across the whole of south-central Dombas

and indeed Zaporosia and Herson as well, is that Ukrainian resistance is ebbing away fast.

And I read a report, I think it was a Ukrainian report actually, which is one of the fundamental

problems that the Ukrainians now have is that their military, their forces

in central and southern Donbass are now so overstretched that they cannot hold the ground

between the towns and the cities. They're not in a position to build fortifications in these places.

And that gives the Russians opportunities to maneuver in the open country.

And that means that the Russians are able to cut off Ukrainian units that are obliged to retreat into towns and cities in order to defend themselves,

because they're not strong enough to defend themselves in open country.

And that is leading exactly to the outcome that you said.

A whole cluster of different cauldrons or encirclements

starting to appear in all sorts of places. So we have a major encirclement starting to develop

in southern Dombas, in an important town called Kouragovol. We're still at a fairly early stage with this, but it's starting to appear.

This is the area where the Russians recently captured Ugladar. They are advancing closer and

closer to Kouraqvo. They're perhaps two kilometers away in some places. There's apparently a significant number of Ukrainian troops.

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