All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Ukraine. And we have the assassination of the Maidan leader, Andrei Pari B. They've actually now apprehended a suspect, the Ukraine investigators. We don't know much about this person. We don't know anything about this person. But it does look like they're leaning towards saying that Russia did it. That's the way it looks at the moment,

even though I think there's a lot of people, suspects, organizations, countries that could

have taken out of B. And I say people, oligarchs, other banderites.

This guy was a hardcore banderite.

There could have been other competing bandarites.

Maybe the Zelensky government did it.

Maybe the three-letter agencies did it.

Maybe Russia did it.

But anyway, it does look like they're going to lean towards Russia.

So we have everything that is going on with

Padubi. And we also have an incredible meeting, which Belousov, the defense minister of

Russia chaired. But the interesting part about this defense ministry meeting were the statements, the updates from Yerazimov, where he paints a picture of a Ukraine that is in deep trouble and surrounded in all the key areas on the front line. And I do believe surrounded is the correct word.

Yes.

That's the way Yerasmov explained everything.

So do you want to start with Paro B or Yerazimov first?

I'm going to start with Gerasimov because I think the one leads to the other actually.

I mean, I don't, to be straightforward. I think if there were not a military

crisis and if the situation were not as grave as it is, Parubi would probably not be in, would

not be dead. I mean, I, the Parubi murder, assassination is a product, whoever was behind it, of the deeper crisis that Ukraine is facing.

Now, first of all, just to say, what Gerasimov did at this meeting is unprecedented.

There's never been anything at any point during the entire special military operation

where the chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces,

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