All right, Alexander, we are here with Patrick Lancaster,

joining us for recording so that Patrick can give us an update

as to what is going on in the conflict in Ukraine.

Patrick, great to have you with us on this show.

Before we get started, Patrick, where can people follow your work?

Yeah, well, first of all, thanks for having me on again, guys. It's always great to be here.

It's great that we can put out information to the world that they're not actually able to see

in many other places. As far as my work, I've been covering the war for 10 years, you know, not just this two-year

part of it, but the whole 10-year war, as you guys know.

And I mainly put my work out on my YouTube channel, Patrick Lancaster, but also now I'm

working on a new platform, a substackack I really would like as many of your

viewers to go and check out my in-depth dives of my reports and many other topics on

substack so if people could go to the substack and subscribe, they're going to get a lot more

information than they would just on my YouTube channel or other social media.

All right, I have the link to Patrick's YouTube channel as well as his substack in the

description box down below and as a pinned comment as well. So, Alexander, Patrick, we have a lot to discuss

with regards to what is happening in Ukraine. So let's begin. Let us indeed begin because there's

no one better on the location to give us a sense of what is going on.

And I'm going to say this.

The mood in Western capitals is becoming very, very edgy and very, very nervous at the moment.

And the reason it is becoming edgy and nervous is because it's now becoming clear that the front lines are moving and starting

to move very, very fast. I was reading just before we started this program, a report by Reuters,

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