All right, we are live with Alexander McCurris in London. How you doing, Alexander?

I'm doing very well in extraordinary days and much to discuss today, but I'm very happy to be here.

All right. Alexander, your thoughts on yesterday's meeting at the White House with Zelensky and then the Europeans.

And after you give your thoughts, we'll jump into questions.

Well, I think the first thing to say is that it could have come worse in the sense that

the Europeans and Zelensky clearly went to Washington trying to get Trump to pull back from what he'd agreed

with Putin in Alaska. Now, I've come to my own view, which is a very simple one, which is that

the entirety of the agreement that was reached between Putin and Trump in Alaska is that there should be

movements towards a full peace agreement and that there should not be a ceasefire before that.

I think that all these reports that we've been hearing about the Ukrainians withdrawing from

Dombas and a ceasefire and all of those kinds of things.

I think these are ideas that are coming from the Americans and which have been addressed

to the Russians and which have been bouncing around.

The same about security guarantees, by the way. And I think the Russians have been addressed to the Russians, and which have been bouncing around, the same about security guarantees, by the way.

And I think the Russians have been listening to them,

and they've not been rejecting them outright.

But I don't think they originate with the Russians at all.

And if you go to the TAS news agency,

which is, of course, Russia's official news agency, they've

clearly been given instructions by the Kremlin to report on all of these things in exactly

that way.

So the idea of Ukrainian withdrawal from the Dombas is incidentally reported in task as an American proposal.

...