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Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier status abroad. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Battleground Ukraine with me Saul David and Patrick Bishop.

There's been plenty going on on the battlefield this week, but we're going to put more of the focus on the broader international developments.

In particular, we're going to look at what has been called Ukraine fatigue. That is what some perceive as a faltering of interest

and indeed indignation as to what is going on in Ukraine, mounting concern at the effects the rest

of the world is feeling as a result of the conflict, and a consequent sense that its time negotiations

began to end the fighting and cobble together some sort of agreement.

Now, we recorded this programme before the news of the Russian announcement that they were

withdrawing from Kurson came in. It was heavily choreographed on state TV to put the blame for the decision on the shoulders of the Ministry of Defense and the army not on President Putin.

So some of the discussion about the southern front you'll hear later on will sound a bit behind the curve.

I will talk obviously about it in detail next week.

But what we would say now is that although it's undoubtedly

a very significant Ukrainian victory and a big Russian humiliation of defeat, it will not necessarily

bring the end of the war much closer. The Russians are now withdrawing to very defensible lines

on the east bank of the Denepro.

And we're also just seeing satellite images of trenches being dug on the northern border of Crimea.

This is a strategic withdrawal.

It's not a sign of imminent collapse.

As President Zelensky said, the Russians do not give us presence.

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