All right, Alexander, let's talk about the fall of Avdivka.

Shoygu made it official.

He told Russian President Vladimir Putin that

FDefka is in Russia's control.

And the Russians are not stopping.

They continue to move forward across the entire front line, though

this is not an offensive. The Russians are still in active defense, what they call

active defense. So anyway, what are your thoughts on Avdefka, on what the Russian military is

doing? Of course, everyone is talking now about what's next.

That's what everyone is trying to analyze and trying to figure out.

But perhaps we can start things off with the catastrophic catastrophic retreat if you can even call it that

from ad defka i mean a complete debacle uh on the side of the ukraine military and on uh on the

side of the zelensky government which ran off to mun. Anyway, what are your thoughts?

Well, the first thing to say is you're absolutely correct. This is not just any defeat.

This was a total, disorganized, chaotic collapse. A couple of days ago, the Ukrainians were still talking about holding on to Avdavka.

Sierski was supposed to be organizing a counterattack to stabilize the situation in Avdegov.

The Third Assault Brigade, which we all know is the Azad Brigade, was being redeployed to defend

Afdaevka. Air defense assets would also be rushed to Avdaevka. It was all, you know,

all the talk was of holding out. And it was completely disconnected, as we were discussing in our

previous video, to the situation on the ground. What happened was the third assault of brigade,

troops that arrived in the area. They saw the ground. What happened was the third assault of brigade, the troops there arrived in

the area. They saw the catastrophe that was unfolding. They became involved in a short period of

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