All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in Ukraine. And let's start things off with the Russian advances into many areas in Dombas.

Are you surprised at the speed of the Russian advances, the way they're capturing villages, the information that we're

getting towns, villages, settlements, whatever you want to call it, the information that we're

getting, which is basically saying that the Russians are capturing a lot of areas without

much of a fight from the Ukraine military. Does any of this surprise you? Do you believe, do you believe

that this is what's going on? And what is your assessment of things?

It is indisputably going on. There's any doubt about this at all. I mean, it's not just a question

of, you know, looking at maps and getting information from Russian

sources. The Ukrainians are saying the same. I mean, when towns and villages fall, I mean,

that isn't, that isn't fake news. It's fact. We have pictures from most of these towns, or nearly all

of these towns. Eventually, you see the Russian soldiers putting up

their flags. There's no doubt at all that over the last couple of months, there's been a massive

increase in the tempo of the Russian advance. Now, has it surprised me? I'm going to put it like this.

I could see that things were speeding up from about March,

which is the month after of D'Evkafel.

Every single week, you could start to see that the Russians were advancing a bit faster.

And after the village, village the key very important village

Crossroads village of Ocheretti no fell you started to see the advance quicker but having said

that though you know it was clear to me that an advance was happening and that it was happening fast.

I have been taken by surprise by the speed of the events of the last three weeks, which are unprecedented at any point in this war.

The person who's putting it best in some ways

is this dissident Ukrainian MP,

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