All right, Alexander, let's discuss the military situation in Ukraine.

We have a lot of stuff going on in the political and geopolitical side of things.

The negotiations in Riyadh, everything that's happening between Trump, his administration,

and Zelensky, and the European Union, and the UK, and Stommer,

but there still is a war that is going on,

and the Russians continue to advance.

What is the situation on the ground?

In fact, the advance, the Russian advance over the last week or so has accelerated.

Now, this isn't something that you get reported much in the media. A couple of days ago,

the media in Britain were talking about how the Russian advance installed, how Ukraine had

supposedly recaptured a village called Pichania, little village, you know, just this great

victory that Ukraine had won, southwest of Pacharov, a village called Pichania.

In fact, I don't believe that the Ukrainians ever recaptured that village, but there's no doubt

that it's now back under Russian control.

So this is the story, the spin that, you know, Ukraine had fought back, that the Russian offensive was stalled, it's

accelerating and it is accelerating everywhere. And the situation continues to deteriorate for the

Ukrainians and it is deteriorating fast. Now, it's a very long front line, so it's difficult to

focus on any specific part of it.

And if one does, I find out many times you end up giving a kind of catalogue of different

battles, all of which are being fought out at one of the same time.

But that's the biggest and most important news is what is happening in Kusk region,

because the Russians there have just captured a big village called Svidlikovar, which is up close

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