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With President Trump's inauguration only 10 days away, speculation is reaching fever pitch

as to whether the last chapter in the Ukraine war is about to open.

In Ukraine, there's fear, there's hope, there's resignation and sometimes a mixture of all three.

Outside Ukraine, there's enormous interest in how Trump will approach this first great problem facing his leadership,

and what his approach will mean for geopolitics in the next four

years. Inside Russia, well, Russia, or at least the workings of its leadership is, as always,

what Winston Churchill once called a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. But to help us

read the runes, we're going to be talking to Alan Phillips, long-time

Moscow correspondent Broiters and the Daily Telegraph and veteran Russian watcher, who will be

giving us his thoughts about how things may play out for Putin in the coming year. But first,

there have been some surprising, and also it has to be said, some alarming events on the battlefield, haven't this?

Yeah, I mean, the surprise is that just when we thought it was all over, that the Ukrainians' efforts in the Kursk Salient were pretty much exhausted, they've launched a new offensive there, clearly aimed at reversing the gains the Russians have made in recapturing territory taken in the

initial Ukrainian incursion way back in August. It looks like an all-arms battle with tanks spearheading

the attack and Russians using airpower and armor to counter the thrusts, which seemed to be

focused on the area of Burdin, a settlement about 35 kilometres inside the Russian border,

just west of the main road to Kursk City. Now, I've seen geolocated footage, which was published

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