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

From what I understand, the Russian military continues to advance across the entire front line.

Kersk has been completely cleared of Ukraine forces or is about to be completely

cleared of Ukraine forces.

There is a foothold in Sumi as well, which seems to be growing.

And then there is the talk about a big Russian spring offensive, most likely in the south, maybe in the

Harkov direction, maybe somewhere else.

There is, though, a lot of talk about some big Russian offensive that is coming.

And there does appear to be a buildup of Russian forces in various directions,

which I believe says a lot, the fact that Russia can build up big forces in different parts of the front line.

Your thoughts?

I think that's exactly right. Now, I think that the first thing

we need to do address is that over the last couple of weeks, as the negotiations, as Trump has

been trying to reach out to the Russians, a whole narrative that the war is again in a stalemate has been once again

reactivated. You remember that this time last year, there was again the story about it being

stalemate. And then throughout the spring, summer, autumn, we had an actually quite rapid

Russian advance.

The Russians first captured Avdevka, then there was a sort of pause through Lake February,

early March, and then of course things started to move.

Ocheretino fell, then other places to the west of Orcherethino, Selidovokov, Kurachov, Uglada, all began to fall one

after the other. Suddenly people were no longer talking about a stalemate. They were suddenly

acknowledging that the Russians were on the contrary advancing and advancing quite fast and there was a lot of

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