All right, Alexander, let's talk about the military situation in Ukraine.

And we have the big announcement from Yerazimov to Russian President Vladimir Putin

that Kupyansk has been captured.

Or as Yerazimov put it, he says that Kupyansk has been liberated.

That is the big announcement from the Russian military.

Of course, we have all kinds of activity elsewhere.

Zaporoszeg, Pachrovsk has pretty much been accepted,

that Pachrovsk has been captured by Russia,

though I don't think there's been an official MOD statement on that.

And then you have another area, which is Svesque, which Russia is advancing in.

So your thoughts?

This is a very interesting moment because Putin again came to the command post of one of the Russian military groups. You remember back in October,

he went to the command post of the military group that was besieging Pachrosk. This time he went to a

different one, the one that's basically involved in the fighting in Coupions.

The West, the West.

The West group.

And, of course, he had the Gerasimov there and the top military officers.

But, of course, they didn't just talk about Coupions.

They talked about the whole military situation altogether.

So a number of very interesting things came out, and they do give a

really stark picture of, I would say, accelerating collapse of Ukrainian defenses in Dombas.

They didn't talk very much about Zaporosia, by the way. Gerasimov gave a quick overview of the whole situation across the entire front lines,

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