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Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

Now, you can all listen to this episode, can pat yourself on the back and state that you truly live in one of those days, they will go down in history.

I've been up for more than 24 hours at this point. I've been just following the events, and I'm pretty sure that by the point of this recording, even more has happened. Because you see the masks have fallen.

I told you guys that one serious Ukrainian victory would be one massive loss for Putin, and that

would be his first one that he couldn't deny. And this has happened. Now, what will the consequences

be we do not know. However,

the Ukrainian counteroffensive has gone on to be ridiculously more successful that originally

planned. Everyone's coping with this and it's just been going on. And I am just recording

this episode during the point where I am what were the news of

of constant Ukrainian advance have finally stopped coming in into such a rapid pace

where they've actually I think might have taken a bit of a break here so what

happened basically was that during the night the city of Kupyansk was taken that that was the beginning and uh well

kupyansk is super important because that's the main railway hub here see Ukrainian plan in general

and this Harkiv direction is to encircle about 10,000

troops, basically cutting them off from supplies and making sure that they can only retreat over

the river with, well, no bridges on it. So we're talking a massive encirclement and it looks

like they'll pull this one off. At worst case, they're going to get a bunch of territory and these guys are going to

have to retreat. Kupiansk was big. The evening started with this and by now basically Kupiansk

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