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Hello, it's 583 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

And the Kremlin media machine has been pretty busy over the last few days, putting out

various videos, perhaps in an attempt to quash rumours about the health of some of the

most senior men associated with the Kremlin.

Ramzan Kadirov is the strongman leader of Chechnya, and he is essential for the Kremlin

maintaining control over that part of Russia with the history of volatility.

And this follows persistent rumours about his health.

Some Ukrainian channels have even claimed that he's dead.

And then he appeared in the video with Vladimir Putin.

He doesn't sound, he's not sounding particularly well, he's kind of slurring his words, but

at least it appears that he is alive.

And then we've had another video of Admiral Sokolov, he's the commander you'll remember

of the Russian Black Sea fleet, who a week ago Ukraine claimed they had killed.

Yes, in no uncertain terms very confidently.

And then a number of videos emerged from Russia suggesting, strongly suggesting, some

of them, that he is alive, there's one video of him awarding a football team.

And you can see a computer screen with a date the 27th of September, so five days after

he was supposed to have been killed.

And of course, why Russia is doing this to embarrass Ukraine?

In this episode, we are also going to be finding out how the U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich

is doing six months after he was detained in Russia on spying charges.

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