All right, Alexander, let's do an update on the current military situation in Ukraine.

I imagine we're going to focus on the Pakrovs section, Bakrowski, and the Russian

breakthrough, the catastrophe in Pakrovsk.

Let's talk about it.

Well, indeed, I mean, when I, when the first

reports came through about the Russian advance north of Pakarovsk, I had to say, I thought to

myself, this can't be true. I mean, the speed of the advance in this area has been astonishing.

And we've seen a whole set of important villages.

And I mean, all right, there are villages and people always dwell on this, but there are

villages that lead to certain positions for one after the other.

That did seem astonishing.

And of course, it also brought the Russians onto all the main key supply roads in this area.

So when I've heard about this, I said, can this really be the case? And I think a lot of people

were asking the same questions. Well, as the hours and days have passed, it's clear that it is the case, that there has been a major Russian breakthrough in this area.

And there's two things to say about it. Firstly, it dooms the military grouping, the Ukrainian military grouping that is defending Pukrovsk.

Now, that's not the same as talking about Pachrosk, the place.

It was clear that the Russians were going to capture Pachrovsk.

I mean, that was already obvious.

But what would happen to the military force, the Ukrainian

military force that is defending Prakosk, that was not so clear. It looked as if it would still

had good opportunities to withdraw. And I thought that probably eventually it would be, it would

withdraw. That is now looking extremely difficult, perhaps even impossible, in which case we have

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