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

And we can start things off with a big picture update on Kharkov, maybe.

Putin said that the goal of Kharkov, as of today, these moments, it's all about creating a buffer zone. Of course, that could change,

given the way Putin phrased his statement about Harkov. We could give an update on what is

happening in Chasovya. Fier's fierce fighting continues, but the, it looks like they are continuing to advance in the Dombas-Dornetsk direction.

And then we can talk about Olensky's term, which is ending and what comes next. And there's a lot of other things

that we can get to. But let's start things off with just a big picture update on Harkov and

the rest of the fighting on the front line. Absolutely. Now, I think the important thing to understand is that, of course, the fighting in Kharkov is the

fighting in only one part of Ukraine.

But we can see the Russian strategy.

It's not difficult to understand.

They're advancing now in multiple directions.

And there's basically four big directions where they're pushing the Ukrainians very hard.

One is Kharkov and we'll come to the details of that in a moment.

The second is the whole Osco River Kupiansk area where they basically reactivated that front line and they're making significant

progress there too. The second is the central Dombas area which is the most important.

Chassefia or Chereitino all of that area where the big breakthrough took place in February and March

and where the fighting in Chassefjaro in particular is intensified.

And then there is another sector which looks like it's opening up as well, which is in the south, in the southern

Dombas, an important town called Krasnogorovka, about to fall, various other key villages

also apparently about to fall, and the threat, a growing threat of an encircumment over the Ukrainians in this

important fortified town of Wuglidara in the south so these are four places now this is a very

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