All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in Russia, specifically with Putin.

Seems like he's disappeared for the past couple of weeks.

Of course, he had the holidays, Christmas, New Year's, actually New Year's and Christmas for Russia, for the Russian Orthodox.

And Putin has been silent.

He appeared at church services over the holidays,

but after the holidays, he has been low profile.

We had the Ereznik strike,

for which Medvedev has sounded off on that.

But Putin has not said anything about the original strike into Leviv either.

So what are your thinking about what's going on with Putin?

I believe he has given an interview the other day.

So he has appeared again.

Usually when he goes silent, it means something

big is coming. What do you think? I mean, as you rightly say, this was the holiday period. There was

the New Year holiday. There was the Russian Christmas, which is on the 7th of January. But

even allowing for that, this has been a very unusually long

period of absence. I mean, he basically disappeared for about 12 days. I mean, he has now resurfaced.

He's had an important meeting with the deputy prime minister, Dennis Manturov, who is an overall charge of the defence industries.

And he's back.

And this is the usual type of very detailed and thorough meeting with all the instructions given and all of that that we're used to from Putin.

But over the period of that, 12 days, I mean, it was almost complete radio silence from him.

I mean, he had one meeting in which he received a report about an attack by the Ukrainians on a hotel building in Herson region where civilians were killed.

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