All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Pakrovs and Kubyansk, a military update,

what's going on on the front lines in Ukraine.

And let's also talk about Putin's offer to journalists, Russian journalists, Western journalists,

any journalists, that would like to actually see what's happening in

in Bakarovsk and in Kupyansk. Russia will stop military activities for a certain amount of time,

I believe he said 24 hours, in order to allow journalists to enter the encircled areas and see for themselves the desperate situation that the Ukraine

military finds itself in. I would say a very smart move from Putin, right? Because Zelensky,

he is saying that, yeah, things are difficult, things are critical, things are

tough, but he's painting the picture as if there is no encirclement, there is no big

catastrophe that's about to befall the Ukraine military. We'll send reinforcements in,

and we are seeing Ukraine sending, trying to send reinforcements, whether it's from Budanov or from

Siersky. And no doubt Zelensky is painting a better picture than what really exists in

these two regions.

So Putin is basically saying, look, you don't believe these regions are encircled.

Come for yourselves and see what's happening.

That's a very confident statement from Putin.

It's a very, very confident one and a very astute one, as you rightly say, because you're

completely correct.

The Ukrainians are still trying to give a rosy picture about the situation.

When we say the Ukrainians, it's important to say, and this is something that perhaps our

viewers need to know, we're talking about the Ukrainian authorities,

Zelensky and Siersky and people like that. If you go to Ukrainian telegram channels, if you

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