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Paul, hello, Paul. How are you doing?

Hello, though. Hello, hello, hello, Eric. Yes, I'm fine. Thanks. Yeah, I'm just listening

into Michael fascinating half hour there. It was very fascinating. Well, Michael's always

fascinating, obviously, on on a whole range of different issues, but yeah, it was, I was in the

race position, I have to say, talking about the monarchy is in the current times asking for trouble.

I don't be interested to see the emails we get later. So let me just start. Let me just,

there's a little video here. I want to see if it's just accurate, first of all. And it's what

we're talking about, obviously, is, sorry, to give a bit more context, I'm just leaping into this.

So the news of the last few days seems to suggest that Ukraine has launched a pretty stunning

counter-offence against the Russian military, tricking them by seeming to do an offensive

elsewhere, which diverted Russian military equipment. And that's allowed them to push forward.

Let's just see this. So, there we go. And for those listening on the podcast,

what we're seeing here is Ukrainian military positions pushing forward quite dramatically.

There does seem to be some suggestions that places that they've not actually launched an

offensive against the Russians have also vacated. Simply because presumably they fear the

Ukrainians are going to take a sweep in. So I suppose what question is, how serious is this?

How much of how successful has this Russia and other Ukrainian counter-offensive actually been?

It's difficult to say because we're obviously getting the information primarily from Kiev

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