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

things off from the front lines and retreats, surrenders, negotiating surrenders, difficulties in the

Avdefka direction, but difficulties, I guess, everywhere for the Ukraine

military, Chasovya, even Kharkov were seeing Russian advances.

And we are getting admissions from Commander Sirsky that Ukraine is having a difficult time fighting

Russia and the situation is very bad for the Ukraine military.

So let's start things off with a summary of what is happening on the front lines because

things are deteriorating very fast. They are indeed

deteriorating very fast and in fact one gets the sense that things are getting worse at a

faster and faster rate. The Russians seem to be advancing, as you said, in multiple directions.

The big advances still seem to be taking place in the Avdaefka area.

So we talked about some days ago about the fact that Oceredino, this village on the hill through which the railway passes that this is now fallen.

It looks as if a number of other settlements to the East, Novo Kalim, Novo and Kerame,

or also falling rapidly under Russian control.

Further to the west of Ocheretino,

the Ukrainians were trying to create a new defence line

through a number of other villages. Netailovo,

Yasnobrovka and Umanski reports this morning that Netailovar, another village is about to fall.

As you correctly said, reports that Ukrainian troops are surrendering or negotiating their terms of surrender

in various places, especially in a place, another village called Berdici, more a small town than a village.

But apparently that has also now essentially fallen under Russian control after long months of battle.

And a major battle going on in a rather bigger place called Krasnogorovka,

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