All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in Kursk and in Sutsa, which is the last part of Kursk that the Ukraine military holds.

They are surrounded, actually, in Sutsa and Kursk.

My understanding of things is that we have one big cauldron around Kursk,

but we also have smaller pockets

where the Ukraine military is surrounded.

Some places, fierce fighting continues.

Other places you have surrenders, mass surrenders.

What's the situation in Kersk like?

Of course, we have the story about the pipeline as well,

which is an amazing story of the Russian soldiers crawling through a 12 kilometer pipeline to

end up behind Ukrainian lines. And that pretty much triggered the collapse, or at least that

seemed to be the beginning of the Ukraine

military collapse. In Kursk, a big defeat, a massive defeat for the collective West for

Zelensky. What are your thoughts? Absolutely. Now, you said that it was this pipeline

operation that triggered it. I'm going to suggest that there isn't

actually even another, even more proximate reason, which is, first of all, it's important to say

that the Russians have been whittling away at the cauldron, you know, the salient in Kuz, for some weeks, they've been making very, very steady

progress. They captured a village called Fidelikov in the western part of the salient a couple of,

about a week ago, and that opened the way for them to reach the main supply road. And they also captured other places

closer to this road. And as a result, they were able to block the road in many, many places. And this

has created a supply crisis, which is probably what is behind a lot of this collapse that we've seen.

But there is actually one single decision which people are not talking about,

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