All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in Ukraine.

And we should probably start off with the situation in Kursk, the operation, the Ukraine military

operation in Kursk.

And then we can talk about the situation that is unfolding in Dombas.

So let's start with Kursk and what's going on there. The latest reports are that

Zelensky is, he's going to create a buffer zone, Alexander, civil administration, and

create a buffer zone. This is an amazing, an amazing information war that

the collective West has carried out in Kursk. But that's where it ends for the collective

West. And we're going to now talk about reality as to what is going on in Kursk.

So what's the situation?

Well, I think you've described it exactly correctly.

There is an information wall.

There is a massive propaganda effort.

And then there is the reality.

The reality is not always easy to discover, work out,

because the amount of misinformation and propaganda is on such a scale now that it's, it's, you know, sometimes very difficult to get a true sense of what's going on, and one does need a very level head.

There's a number of things I would like to say, first of all.

The first point is that the Russians have pretty much officially now confirmed that the original

objective of this operation, when it was launched last week, was to capture the Kuznuclear

power plant and the town of Kurchatov.

Now that operation was supposed to have been completed by the 11th of August.

Today is the 15th of August. They haven't got there.

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