So the proxy war in Ukraine appears to be coming to an end.

However, some are pushing for peace negotiations, while others are attempting to prevent or even postpone the negotiations.

So to discuss these issues, I'm joined today by Alexander Mercuris and Dimitri Polianzky,

who is the first deputy permanent representative of the Russian Federation

to the United Nations.

So I want to ask about the recent escalations, because I guess two important developments have

taken place.

That is, one, the Ukrainian front lines appear to be collapsing, and the second,

of course, is Trump won the presidential election, and he seemed at least to have the intention

of attempting to end this conflict. Now, the Biden administration responded by attacking

Russia with this long-range attack missiles, which is interesting

because they refused to do so in the past, but now they suddenly switched.

And we see Russia responded with the Orrjniznik missile.

So I wanted to get your impression of, given that Europe, present Russia.

You speak with the United States and other countries there at the UN.

What is happening now?

Are we seeing a continuous escalation or did the Orrashnik missile put an end to it?

How do you read the situation?

Oh, I think Arashnik missile revived hopes, especially in Russia, that there will be a solution,

a decent solution and a sustainable peace. You know, I think it's much more complicated than one might figure out from your introduction.

As far as the UN is concerned, of course, there are a lot of hopes, a lot of expectations in the Kluas, people are asking questions,

because everybody is encouraged by exactly these two news. Everybody, I mean mostly countries from the global south,

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