All right, Alexander, let's talk about the diplomacy between the United States and Russia.

We also had the phone call between Trump and Zelensky.

We may want to touch on that as well in this video update.

But what do you think?

Should we begin with the United States and Russia, the most important part of all the diplomacy

that has been taking place over the last couple of weeks, including the phone call between

Trump and Putin, in my opinion, is that we have bilateral talks.

The United States and Russia, there's no UK. There's no, unfortunately,

for Kirstehmur, there's no UK, there's no European Union, and most importantly,

there is no Ukraine. There has been an admission from the Trump White House that this is the United States, Russia, a proxy war between the two.

And so they're going to sit down together and try, they're going to try to find a solution to this.

Anyway, what are your thoughts?

Absolutely. The most important thing that came out of that conversation between Trump and Putin is that it is going to be a direct negotiation.

They're going to set up expert panels.

There's going to be more than one expert panel.

One expert panel is clearly going to look at the ceasefire and whether the

ceasefire can be extended and in what form and how and what that means. There's going to be

a cease, there's going to be an expert panel to look at the situation in the Black Sea.

Now the point here is basically it's an attempt to return to the grain deal.

But of course the grain deal that was negotiated back in 2022 collapsed because the Russians

said that what happened was that the Ukrainians and their Western allies took advantage of the

great deal to try and smuggle weapons through ships into Odessa and to avoid having proper inspections.

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