All right, Alexander, let's talk about the military situation in Ukraine, and let's focus on

Dombas, and the situation in Dombas looks really, really bad for the Ukraine military.

What's going on?

Well, I think the situation doesn't look bad.

It looks absolutely disastrous, And it is becoming really

gruesome, specifically in one place, which is this small town of Velika and Novo Silka in southwest

Dombas. There, the Ukrainians have managed to get themselves trapped. I say they managed to get themselves

trapped. This is an important strategic place. Berica and Novo Silke is of some strategic

significance. It stands as one of the final barriers to the Russian advance, to the

to the deeper, and we've discussed in many places, how dangerous it is for Ukraine

if the Russians do reach the Dnieper in central Ukraine.

But again, the Ukrainians decided to hold on in Velika and Novo Silke for too long.

And Velika and Novo Silke was supposedly an easy place to defend because there are three rivers,

three different rivers that crisscross it. And that looked like they provided a strong water

barrier and a strong defense line.

What has instead happened is that it's turned into a trap and it seems that there's an entire

brigade of the Ukrainian army there, the 110th brigade whose soldiers are furious because they

weren't they weren't withdrawn and are saying that they

were abandoned and in effect betrayed and there are also all sorts of other Ukrainian soldiers

there so the Russians are now saying spreading messages to the soldiers in Velika

Yonogosilkin telling them. Now is the time for you to

surrender. But of course, the Ukrainian soldiers still get orders from Zelensky and Siersky to fight

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