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

The 61 billion has been signed by Biden.

We've got weapons package has been published, so we have an idea as to what's going to be sent to Ukraine.

And we've got a front line that is

collapsing but Ukraine front line is collapsing and I think that is the the big story here which is

that the defenses are falling apart, at least in the direction of Avdivka.

And, of course, there are rumors, speculation that there is going to be some sort of a Russian offensive in Kharkov-Sumi direction. So what do you want to start off with?

Should we deal with the front line? Let's deal with the front line first, because of course

this is what's driving everything and which is creating the urgency, because we now have had a whole series of events which basically

kicked off from the fall of Avdafka in February. Remember, the fall of Avdavka was unexpected.

It happened much faster than the Ukrainians or the Western powers imagined. And it was the single thing that

has created this sense of panic, which has never really abated at any time since. As is often the way,

and I've had many, many dealings with panicky people in my time. You get situations, by the way,

where there's panic and extreme panic and then sometimes moments of euphoria.

And we've just been, we're just going through one in Washington at the moment since the package was passed.

But what always happens is that the euphoria quickly goes and the panic returns.

What is driving things and is causing the panic? As I said, Avderka fell. There was hopes that

Ukraine would be able to stabilize the front lines. They created one front line first along a string of villages, which were

called Toninka, Orlovka, Simeonovka and Berdici. That front line very quickly collapsed. The Russians

just powered through it. They then reached what many people thought would be the next front line,

which runs from another place called Perwomaiski in the south,

through other villages, Nitalo, Yasnabrodovka, Omanska,

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