All right, Alexander, let's talk about this business with French mercenaries that allegedly Russia annihilated 601 or 67 French mercenaries that were staying at a hotel in Harkov.

And the interesting part about this story is that the messaging

coming out of Paris is all jumbled. One story contradicts another story. And it looks like

the Macron administration hasn't quite been able to figure out how to explain away this Russian strike on this hotel

where allegedly these French mercenaries were staying or where much of the command operations were

being housed. Just real quick, the foreign ministry came out with a statement and said there are

no French mercenaries or French fighters in any country. And then the defense ministry came out

with a statement right after the foreign ministry put out their statement and it said, well, we do

have French citizens fighting in various parts of the world, but they have no connection to the

French military whatsoever. And we're a democracy, and we can't stop people from going to

fight in other countries. So what's what to make of this news about the French fighters?

Yeah. This is a very interesting story.

I mean, it is very interesting because, as you said,

there are divergent reports coming out from Paris.

I think the first thing to say is that there's no doubt at all

that this incident did take place

and that dozens of French people were killed

in this strike on the hotel in Kharkov. And we're starting to get names of people who were killed.

And they're very interesting. I mean, you know, so there is real issue about this. Something, there were a lot of

people from France in that hotel. The Russians appear to have deliberately targeted them,

and many of them were killed. So that's the first point to say. Now, the other thing that has happened, and it is actually extraordinary, and I don't think it's getting the attention it deserves, is that the foreign ministry in Moscow, the Russian foreign ministry, called in the French ambassador. And the French ambassador came to the

foreign ministry and he was there for several hours. And he left and there were journalists outside

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