All right, Alexander, let's talk about the deteriorating military situation in Ukraine, deteriorating

for the Ukraine military. Things are accelerating quickly in Pakrovsk in the favor of Russia.

The entire Tripro-Petrovsk region, actually we're seeing Russia advance. They're in the region now,

and they're advancing. It looks like we're going to get some sort of urban warfare unfolding

in Pachrovs very soon. And things are no better anywhere else in the front lines in Ukraine.

What is your assessment of the military situation right now?

I think you're absolutely right.

I think there's a fundamental problem, which is that the Ukrainian army now no longer has enough men.

Those men that it does have are tired and not just tired, but jaded.

I mean, they've been fighting for a very, very long time.

Recruits that are sent to the front lines are no longer adequately trained

and equipment from the West is drying up, not because the West doesn't want to send equipment,

but because it's so short now and its production figures can't keep up with Ukraine's

needs. And this is starting to shape the battlefield. The fighting in Prakosk is evolving much faster,

I think, that most people expect it.

There is fighting going on inside Pukrovsk itself.

We are not being provided with a huge amount of information about this.

But that's even more dramatic is that the Russians are pushing north beyond Provsk, outflanking the Ukrainian positions in the three cities of Slaviansk, Kramatsk and Konstantinovka.

And apparently they are not meeting resistance there.

We're getting more and more reports about the Russians advancing, reaching fortified positions

that the Ukrainians have built and finding nobody there to man them so that they're

able to occupy them and they consolidate, then they continue to move north. There just isn't

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