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

And we definitely have to start with the front lines, a collapse on the front lines.

I think it's fair to say that at this point, that the front lines are collapsing in Ukraine.

That's exactly what's happening.

And can I just say, it's so strange to see how this has happened because it's happened

sort of by stealth, but which I don't mean that the Russians have done anything, you know,

secretly.

But the media in the West has not really been covering it until just now.

Now they're starting to see what is going on.

And it's not had the kind of coverage that one needs to, you know,

that you'd expect an event in this scale to actually,

you know, merit. But we are looking at a collapse. I mean, and the focus of it is in the area

west of Avdewka and north of Avdegovka as well. The Russians have punched a hole through

the front lines, the Ukrainian front lines.

They're collapsing one by one.

And we're getting a whole string of villages falling one after the other.

The key one was Ocheretino, which we've talked about many times on our programs.

But the Russians have now captured two other important

villages, Novo Kalinova and Keramik. There are reports this morning that they are close to capturing

another village called Arhengelskaya, which is immediately to the north of Ocheretino, the key thing to understand

is that Ukrainian units are disintegrating. I mean, this is now even been admitted by Forbes.

They've done a piece on the 47th Mechanized Brigade, which is the elite brigade that Ukraine,

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