All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in Ukraine, a military update, and let's

talk about what is happening in Pakrovsk, in Mirnograd, as well as Kupianz.

Just a few days ago, Zelensky was telling the world that there are a couple of hundred

soldiers, Russian soldiers in

Pakrosk, and that the Ukraine military would deal with them. The situation was difficult,

but not catastrophic, according to Zelensky. And then we have his bizarre update on Kupyansk, where he said that there were 60 Russian soldiers

in Kupyansk and the Ukraine military just needed a couple of weeks to deal with those 60 soldiers.

That doesn't appear to be the situation.

That's not the situation.

But anyway, the Russian Ministry of Defense, they actually issued a statement saying

that Zelensky is divorced from reality.

An interesting statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Your thoughts on what he is saying and the real situation in these three areas?

Absolutely.

I mean, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it is completely divorced from reality

and that there are only two explanations for it.

The first is that Zelensky himself believes it,

in which case, I mean, he's completely

lost touch and connection with what he's really happening on the front lines, or alternatively,

and I think that they're right on the second, actually, that he's trying to deceive the Ukrainian

people, the Ukrainian army, and above all, um, the people

who the Russian Defence Ministry calls, um, Zelensky's Western sponsors. In other words,

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