All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is going on in the conflict in Ukraine, and we have

a big announcement from the Russia Ministry of Defense. That is the town of Velika-Novosilke

has been captured by the Russian military. This is an important region. You will explain why this is an important region. And I imagine

in the next couple of days, the Russian Ministry of Defense will announce the full capture

control of Doretsk as well. And it's Pakrovsk, I guess, Pakrovsk. And then the Russians will move closer to the Deneper and into the Denebro-Petrovska region.

They're about four kilometers away from the Denebro blast.

Anyway, quick advances with each passing day, each passing week, the Russian military continues to capture more and more important areas and towns, which were very, very built up Ukraine military defenses.

So what's the situation on the front line in Ukraine?

We are getting very, very close now to the military end game.

And I should say the fall of Velikas Novosilka has provoked a kind of psychological crisis

in Ukraine itself.

I mean, they've obviously lost fortified places before, Bachmert, Avdewka, Krasnogorovka,

but they've usually played, they play the usual game with all of those.

They've, if you remember, they've discounted them.

They pretended that actually these places weren't at that enormous importance,

strategically unimportant. And, you know, they spun stories about how the

places hadn't really been captured at all and that there were still Ukrainian troops

fighting there and that the Russians were making it up. And then, you know, they just moved

on and talked about fighting going on in other places.

It hasn't been like that this time. The Ukrainians themselves, and I mean I'm, but I mean

the Ukrainians. I mean the Ukrainian commentary community, the reporters, the blockers, those

sort of people, the people connected with the soldiers, have been really

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