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

Let's start with the front lines.

And then we could perhaps talk about Olensky's disaster trip because it was bad in the United States, but boy, did it get a whole lot worse in Canada.

And we can also mention his stopover in Poland as well, which was very non-eventful.

And I think that's worth discussing.

All right.

So let's start with what's going on on the front lines.

Has Ukraine liberated Rapitina for the 32nd time?

You know, I'm glad you put it in this way because I'm now starting to get a real sense

of deja vu. And what I mean by that is that back in 2014, when it was the fighting there,

there were all kinds of claims about tremendous Ukrainian advances and

captures of places Rabotino, Verbovo this year, it was other places, I forget the names

now from 2014. And we were getting maps. There was, you know, the sort of Western maps,

which were best based on these claims. And they were

getting weirder and weirder and weirder because they showed territory under Ukrainian control,

which other reports, and these were Ukrainian and Western reports, showed that they were still

contesting. And it seems to me this is exactly what we have now.

There were more reports yesterday about more Ukrainian breakthroughs. They're no longer talking

about Rabatino, I've noticed. This is no longer a topic that's open to discussion any further.

The Russians talk about Raboltina, about fighting that goes on there but the

Western media the Ukrainians don't they now talking about the verbavoye and yesterday

I was reading about how half the village had been captured how the Ukrainians

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