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

off with the situation on the front lines. And let's start things off with Ugladar. I guess is the

most important part of the front lines to discuss, the encirclement of Ugladar, which has pretty much now been confirmed.

And all of this was going down when Zelensky was in the United States, trying to get

entry into NATO and trying to get permission for long-range missile strikes, with reports

claiming that the Ukrainian soldiers facing encirclement

in Ugladar were ordered not to leave Ugladar, which has now led to their effective encirclement.

And I have read reports which claim that some of the soldiers in the 72nd are surrendering.

I don't know if that is true, but anyway, what are your thoughts on what is happening on the front lines?

And if you agree that Ugladar right now is the area that we need to focus on.

Voglodar is indisputably the area we need to focus on, and for three reasons.

Firstly, a significant force of Ukrainian troops,

some of their best troops. About 1,500, 2,000 men maybe are surrounded in Vuglodar. Well, that may not

sound like a huge number, but Ukraine is very short of troops now, right across the front lines,

and is short of some of its best troops.

And some of its best troops, too many of them, are surrounded in Vuglada.

And if they capitulate, if they're all lost, that will be a blow to the Ukrainian military,

and it will be a blow that will

be absorbed by wider Ukrainian society, because it will look as if, well, it will be, first

of all, an indisputable defeat, one that cannot be concealed or explained away from the Ukrainian

people, and one which will affect general morale

across Ukraine because I said these soldiers have been lost. There is another factor about Wuglodar.

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