All right, Alexander, let's do a quick video on Ukraine because we have another conflict, which

is sucking up all of the oxygen as far as media coverage goes. But the conflict grinds on

in Ukraine. What are the latest updates? Well, the military just quickly touch on the military situation and we don't have to

spend a huge amount of time on it. I think now the overwhelming consensus is that the military

offensive, Ukraine's great military offensive of the spring and summer is now essentially

ended. They've run out of men and machines and shells and they seem to be now

on the defensive pretty much everywhere. There's been no sign of this cross, you know, this amphibious

landing across the NEPA, increasing doubt that this can happen. The weather conditions are turning bad. And in every place,

every part of the front lines where we've seen fighting over the course of the spring and summer

and autumn in Bahmuts, in Zaporosia, in further north in Kupiansk. It's the Russians who are now gradually taking the initiative and who are going on the offensive.

Not yet in a big way, because the Russians are still preparing, and they are preparing massively.

But Ukraine is no longer able to sustain its offensive. And the war,

I think, has now turned a decisive corner. And from this point on, it's just a question of the

Russians going on applying more and more pressure until eventually Ukraine cracks. I think that's where we are

in military terms. Okay, so the big question that I have for you is obviously connected to the

conflict in Israel. How does Russia benefit or not benefit?

And I'm speaking in context to the conflict in Ukraine.

How does Russia benefit or not benefit from what's happening in Israel?

Obviously, people can argue there's a media benefit in that the focus is no longer on the conflict in Ukraine anymore from a media

perspective. It's on Israel. So everyone's forgotten about Ukraine. And so, you know, I guess that's

good in a certain respect for Russia. Though my belief is that Russia probably couldn't care less.

They're going to do what they need to do in the special military operation, whether CNN covers it or not.

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