All right, Alexander, let's do an update on the military situation in Ukraine.

And I believe the place that we need to focus on for this update is Kupyansk.

Perhaps you may want to discuss the situation in Pakarov, Seversk, and a Russian buildup and advance in the south in the Zaporoje region as well. A lot of,

a lot of fronts to discuss all of them, Russia, advancing across all these fronts.

The Russians moving forward everywhere. Now, back in August, we had this extraordinary and

very surprising Russian breakthrough, northeast of Pacharovsk, which I still believe is the main

battle that is taking place. But the Russians suddenly broke through northeast of

Bakrowski. We discussed it at the time. We spoke about how the Russians were capturing villages,

which were completely undefended, and there seemed to be no Ukrainian troops there. And this was

putting in peril Ukrainian supply lines, not just to Bakrowski,

but to Konstantinovka as well. What then happened is entirely predictably, and the Russians

must have known that this would happen, Zelensky and Siersky, the Ukrainian chiefs, the military chiefs,

I realized that this had to be stopped in some way.

So because the Ukrainian army is, as every report says now,

desperately depleted, short of manpower, out of reserves.

The mobilization process has all but broken down.

They had to deploy units from other battlefronts.

They rushed them to this area of northeast Bakrowski to hold the positions there.

And what has happened is that the result is that the Ukrainians no

longer have the forces or the reserves to hold back the Russians in other places. So what we see

is major Russian advances in the north of the battlefronts, in the Kupiansk,

Lehman, Siversk area, and in the south in Zaporosia.

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