All right, Alexander, let's talk about the trip from Modi's national security advisor to Moscow.

He's going to be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to various news outlets in India, he will be discussing a possible peace plan for the conflict in Ukraine.

What is going on here?

Well, you remember some about, I think it was two weeks ago, we did a program.

We said that the one thing that the Russians have to worry about in the war, they're now

winning the war in Ukraine. Nobody, I think, any longer has any real doubt about that. But the one

thing that they have to worry about is their allies and the fact that they have been coming

under pressure from their allies to try to find a negotiated end to the conflict in Ukraine.

And we've now learnt that the Russians were indeed under significant pressure to begin negotiations

or to agree to negotiations with the Ukrainians over the course of the summer,

then the Kusk offensive, Ukraine launched its Kusk offensive, which caused that pressure to be lifted

for a while, but it looks as if the Indians are now coming back and they're again apparently talking about

negotiations that they want that they're trying to get negotiations or some sort of a dialogue

going between the Russians and the Ukrainians now everybody who has been following this knows that the Russians don't want this. Putin gave a press

conference whilst he was in Vladivostok at the Far East Asian Economic Forum. He was asked about negotiations. I got the sense that he was very,

very tired of the topic and very exasperated. He was, he complained at one point that he's gone

to great lengths many times to explain the origins of this conflict in the coup that took place in Ukraine in

2014 that and the subsequent policies of the Ukrainian government. He says that people don't

seem to want to listen. He was ambiguous as to who he meant, but I got the sense that he meant

his allies, the Indians and the Brazilians. And he mentioned countries that he was asked,

who might be mediators, and he spoke about China, India and Brazil. China, I think we can discount the Chinese

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