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

Maybe we start with what is happening on the front lines.

More collapse is happening across the entire front line.

And we now have the Zelensky administration talking about negotiations, hinting at the possibility that

Ukrainians will have to accept territorial loss, talking about a second peace summit,

which will have to include Russia.

Though Russia, they're not taking any of these statements from the

Zelensky regime very seriously at all. But let's start with the front lines and then we'll talk

about what's happening in Kiev. Indeed, and can I just say, I mean, just on the eve of making

this program, there's been pretty dramatic news from the front lines.

There's now reports that the supply roads, the main supply road to the fortified town of Wuglida in the south of Donbass has now been cut that the Russians have broken in, taken control of

very large stretches of the road and it looks as if Vuglodar is likely to be effectively

encircled within a few weeks or even at the rate the things are going in a few days.

So that's one major development.

There's another major development on another part of the front lines,

which is in the close to the strategic city town of Pachrovsk.

Pachrosk is a town in central Dombas. It's not, it's in the sort of general area

where Avdafka, you know, the place that the Russians captured in February is located. It's the major

logistical hub of the Ukrainians. So it's where the supplies that arrive from the west, they're sent across the Nipa, from Nyebrough, they're then sent to Pachrovsk, and then from Pakrovsk, they're distributed amongst the various military forces along the front lines,

Ukrainian defence forces around the front lines. Anyway, the Russians are now literally a few

kilometres from Pakrosk. And this morning, there are reports that a Ukrainian force has been

encircled close to Pakrosk in a village called Jelanye.

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