All right, Alexander, let's do an update as to what is going on in Ukraine.

Let's start perhaps with the situation on the front lines, more Russian advances going on throughout the front lines.

We could talk about, maybe you want to talk about Defa Fupyansk.

There seems to be more activity in these areas

or at least more news coming out from these areas and then we can talk about Putin I guess his

speech his appearance in St. Petersburg and some very interesting statements and speeches that he

gave so let's let's start with the situation

on the front. Well, indeed. I mean, let's start because it is, we're seeing more of the same,

only a lot more of the same, in the sense that the Russians are intensifying their pressure.

And it's fascinating to see if you keep track of what's going on in the war,

the Russians advance in one place. The Ukrainians pulled together reinforcements and try to stop that Russian advance.

They take very, very heavy losses. And Ukrainian losses

apparently are spiking. There was one Ukrainian source that said that they're losing men now

at the rate of 1,200 a day. Now, these are not dead. These are dead and heavily wounded. But that's what, you know, is coming out of Ukraine at the moment.

So the Russians attack in one place. The Ukrainians, as I said, try and reinforce there.

They pull troops from various other parts of the front line. And then the Russians increase the pressure elsewhere.

And they're doing this everywhere. They're doing this all the time. So they're now pushing very hard

in Kupians. The Ukrainians stop the Russian advances near Kupians city. They blocked the Russians for several weeks at a place

called Sinkhvka. There was a lot of heavy fighting there. The Ukrainians apparently took a big hammering in

Sinkovka. The Russians have their losses also, but they can absorb losses.

Anyway, the Ukrainians then started to sort of breathe, and then, of course, the Russians

attacked in other places, close to Kupiansk on the various, a whole string of villages, is now apparently falling under Russian control.

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