All right, Alexander, let's talk about the reports, specifically from the New York Times,

but from various other collective West media outlets,

that Russian President Vladimir Putin is using backchannel diplomacy

in order to try and get a ceasefire or freeze to the conflict

in Ukraine. Basically, Putin is boasting about Russia's trajectory towards victory and how Russia

is going to look after its interests and is not

interested at this moment in dealing with the collective West or negotiating with the

collective West, seeing that it's winning this conflict butt.

But behind closed doors, Putin is actually very keen on getting a freeze or ceasefire to this war in Ukraine, especially given that he has an election in March 24.

And he wants to try and wrap this whole Ukraine conflict up before the election. In 2024, sounds like a lot

of projection to me, to be quite honest. But anyway, what are your thoughts with all of these

articles? Specifically the one from the New York Times, I think, caught a lot of people's

It is the New York Times article that has triggered this. And by the way, and this is the one point

where I do agree with some of the commentaries, I think this New York Times article was carefully

inserted and published. And let's, we'll talk about the publication. The way this kind of article

gets published in a moment. It was published because a Russian aircraft, which belongs to, I think, either the

foreign ministry or the Kremlin or something like that, was, anyway, the Russian government

went to D.C. and was there for 54 hours.

We don't really know what it was doing there.

But of course, this article then appears at exactly the time when this aircraft is there.

Of course, the US government would know that this aircraft was on its way because the Russians need to get permission before they can send an aircraft like this.

Most likely, as I said, this aircraft was carrying out various logistical duties

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