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

And Avdyevka, I think that is the big story.

And there are Russian advances throughout the entire front line.

Even the Institute for the Study of War has had to admit as much, erasing effectively the entire five months of the Ukraine,

spring, summer, counteroffensive, whatever you want to call it.

The Russians are now on the move, and a lot of focus is on Afdefka, but there are a lot of other areas where the Russians

are making progress. So what does the situation on the front lines? Well, I think you just

summed it up. The Russians are advancing right across the front lines. They're doing so in mid-autum at the time, the worst

period of the Rasputitsa, the month season. So these are in difficult conditions for an army to be

able to advance. And nonetheless, and despite that, they are advancing. And they seem to be advancing, in my opinion,

very rapidly, relatively speaking, near Avdewka. Avdavka, we were always told it was one of the most

heavily fortified positions that Ukraine had created along the front lines. And what's happening, or so it seems to me, is that

this position is now being steadily and incrementally encircled. And this is happening at a much

faster speed than I think most people anticipated when this current offensive near Avdavka began at the start of October.

So the Russians some weeks ago captured this thing called the waste heat.

This is the slag heat near the Coke plant near to Avdavka.

That gave them an observation platform because it's high

ground that they could use to monitor what was going on right across Avdewka. They've now apparently

been able to penetrate into the Coke factory, which is located quite close to it.

They haven't yet made a concerted effort to storm it, but they are pushing hard on the Coke factory.

Further south, which is the other side of the pincers that's moving,

they are advancing apparently also pretty fast through an industrial zone that is located there.

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