All right, Alexander. Let's talk about what is happening in Ukraine, a Ukraine update.

And I think the big story is Marinka, Sergei Shogu telling Russian President Putin that

Russia has fully captured Marinka. And it shows how conservative the Russian military is when they release statements,

because we've kind of known about Marinka for a week, a week and a half.

But it was just the other day that Sergars Shogu confirmed everything to the Russian

president.

And then we have all this talk about fighter jets being shot down,

one fighter jet, Ukraine shooting down Russian fighter jets, one fighter jet, three fighter jets,

five fighter jets. I've heard numbers that put it at 10 fighter jets, an odd, an odd narrative being spun by the

Elensky regime there.

And then we could just talk about the general situation on the front line, a lot of mobilization

problems for the Ukraine military. It seems like they have a lot of mobilization problems for the Ukraine military. It seems like they have a lot

of mobilization problems, which says a lot. And maybe we can also discuss Alexander the hype around

the F-16s, because we got, once again, the hype around F-16. So where do you want to start

things off? Well, I think you're absolutely correct.

The big news is Marinka, and one has to stress, Marinka is itself an important place. The Russians

have been battling to capture it since the autumn. It's been very much a stop-go battle in a town

that's only five kilometers from Donetsk, Donets City.

It's been a very heavily fortified location that the Ukrainians really dug deep into.

It was where they were conducting a lot of the firing, the artillery strikes on Donetsk itself over the last nine years or so.

The Russians opened an offensive to try to capture Marinka in the autumn.

Briefly, there were reports which were circulating last autumn a year ago that they had actually

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