All right, Alexander, let's talk about the diplomacy that is taking place between the United States and Russia, between the United States and Ukraine, which you want to call it diplomacy.

And the diplomacy taking place between the United States and Europe, the Europeans, who are very unhappy with the United States and Europe, the Europeans who are very unhappy with the United

States and are rejecting the U.S. is recognition of Crimea, which is an odd thing to say.

But the Europeans reject the United States as recognition of Crimea.

Anyway, we have all kinds of diplomacy taking place.

One day, it looks like it's making progress.

The next day, it looks like there's no progress.

How are you reading things?

Well, this is the most chaotic and disorganized negotiation I've ever seen in my life

in the world of diplomacy.

It's very difficult to understand

exactly what's going on because, as you rightly say, it changes from one day to the next.

And the major confusions ultimately come from Washington. Now, there's a number of things to say.

Firstly, for the first couple of weeks after Donald Trump

became president of the United States, the Americans focused on trying to get a ceasefire

organized. That was what Zelensky was asked to do when he went to Washington in February, when there was that

massive bust up in the Oval Office, he refused to agree to a ceasefire.

If you remember, unless he got security guarantees from the Americans, the Americans said

they were not in the business at that time of giving security guarantees.

There was this huge row.

He went away.

There was then a follow-up meeting in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia,

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