All right, Alexander, let's do an update on Ukraine, and we can talk about what's happening on the front lines.

We can talk about Kursk and Ukraine's catastrophic offensive or counteroffensive to a counteroffensive in Kirst.

They're attacking the K curse direction for what goals or

what ends? I don't know. No one really just stands, except that it's most likely for media,

a media PR stunt. We have Kursk. We have other things we can get to on the front line. And of course, we can talk about the peace

deals that are being leaked by the media, the Daily Mail, leaked the Strana peace deal,

which you talked about a week ago. And they decided to leak it yesterday as breaking news.

My news.

So Kellogg, and of course, we'll focus on many of the things that Kellogg is saying and the

Munich Security Conference, which just before you talk about, I don't know if you talk about

Kersk first, but I would guess that much of the Kersk offensive is about creating

some sort of narrative before Munich. I would guess that that's probably correct for Zelensky

as far as an explanation why he's going into Kersk. Anyway, what are your thoughts on what's going on?

Let us in fact start with Kursk because you're absolutely correct. What you just said is precisely true.

Because of course the Ukrainians launched this completely ill-conceived,

catastrophically executed, disastrous counterattack in Kukk, trying to push back the Russians,

trying to regain territory, trying to regain the initiative in Kuzk region, which anybody

who has been following the trend of the fighting, not just in Kuzk region, but right across

the front lines, would have known in advance was going

to miscarry.

And the moment it happens, the moment it starts, you get this triumphalist statements from

Zelensky that the Ukrainians are fighting in Cusk, that this has been a tremendous

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