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

And should we start from the front lines this time?

Maybe talk about more missile strikes on energy infrastructure.

What's happening in Ukraine?

Well, I think we can talk at the front lines, but I think it's a

holistic picture now because it seems to me that everything now step by step is falling apart.

If we're talking about the front lines, I saw a British commentator speak of what the Russians

are doing is that they're applying an anaconda

strategy. They've sort of entwined themselves around the Ukrainian army and they're constricting

it to death. And I think that probably describes it quite well. Ukrainian casualties per day now, according to the Russians,

and I think this is probably fairly reliable,

running at between 1800 and 2000 a day, a day.

I mean, that is completely unsustainable. Energy infrastructure being systematically

demolished. The Ukrainian authorities now acknowledging straightforwardly that the whole winter

there will be blackouts. The economy in absolute free fall.

There's lack of electric power.

There's shortages of workers.

Because everybody who can, they can, they're now mobilising and sending them to the battlefronts.

And we're being told basically that it's the Western powers who are telling them to do that.

There's a monetary crisis, a budget crisis developing. On top of everything else, their loan, you know, the freeze on payments, repayments of their bonds to their external private creditors

runs out in August. The creditors for the moment are refusing to grant a haircut or to extend

that loan repayment holiday. Beyond that, that's creating further pressure. Probably Western

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