 Um, so lucky, uh, sorry, Zaki, I'd like the The floor is yours Okay, lucky. Is it lucky? Sorry, my my That is my first name. I did is my course. Okay My apologies. Okay. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here once again with virtually the same panelists To discuss the same topic. So I'd like to introduce a kind of Dynamic interpretation And in a nutshell, I will tend to say That nothing has changed since last year But virtually everything could change Nothing has changed because we are confronted and Ukraine Is confronted to a violent Russian aggression Which will unfortunately enter its third year Next February Which is probably longer than we all expected The second point and he'd had me mentioned by uh, Bogdan European support is stronger And is stronger than ever And this point should be stressed Uh All in all all in all we have committed I'm talking about commitment not disbursement, which are lower But in terms of commitment, we are around 80 billions euros for Ukraine Through different mechanism, uh, I'm not to enter into detail and uh For the first time Our commitments Are higher than the american ones So and I would like to insist on this because I had many distinctions with the keel institute Who constantly insisted on saying that the american commitment was much more important than the european one And at the end of the day, they realized that our commitments were extremely important And they actually corrected the figures and they came to the figure that the european commitments were the higher Of course, i'm not comparing the united states With uh, with europe because virtually we are absolutely on the same line, fortunately But uh, it's important to say that we are on the forefront And if this idea matters If some unfortunate changes take place in, uh, the united states in the in the next future So the other achievement is that the level of consensus Among europeans is still very strong important with of course Some caveats, but by and large Is extremely strong And uh, the reason why uh, it is strong It's because all european states see in ukraine A challenge to their security And see in a unfortunate success of russia, which i cannot imagine A huge, uh, blow to our, uh, security and even Countries of europe which were Let's had the Well south south oriented Are now changing their views And let's say Pivoting towards central, uh, central europe So this is a huge change, which will take place In the uh, to next, uh, decade So russia unfortunately is and will remain A security threat to europe And this view is now shared massively by the, uh, european Two main achievements From the european side, which have to be Mentioned and re uh Affirmed We succeeded in putting an end to our energy dependency vis-a-vis russia, which is a huge achievement And second We are probably now on the verge of transferring the frozen assets Russian assets To ukraine. I hope that we will be able to Give them the 300 Billions of russian assets, which had been frozen So in that in a sense everything is fine But Yeah, but Uh, the first and we have to confess And even from my personal, uh, perspective Uh, the military situation Is difficult And much much more difficult than what expected compared for example to last year The cost incurred by russia are absolutely huge huge Uh, and by western standards or european standards They are unbearable unbearable And if you see the last months in october The casualties on the russian side were absolutely huge and among the the the most important casualties within amounts So they are losing they are losing now What is unbearable by european standards? Is perfectly bearable By russian standards and we have to take this into account and you need in this regard to read the formidable interview piece written by the chief of staff of ukraine general gelinski in the economists which Is not Extremely optimistic On the evolution of the situation and in fact Putin is following unfortunately what Stalin said in the past When he said that to a certain extent to a certain extent And i'm sorry because the sentence is terrible quality quantity becomes a source of quality But that's the way russia behaves So people are killed en masse but they are Killed and new waves of soldiers arrive and the problem is that the ukrainians Cannot work on the same footing. So there is an inequality uh, so To to Stop on on on on this. So just to say that's going to be a long war Much probably longer than expected And there is no doubt. There is no doubt that Of course a kind of fatigue May appear in europe But also in the uh, in the united states where the news are not terribly Terribly good, but which will bring Will put the europeans in front of their responsibility So i will come if you allow me later on on the interaction Which seems to be extremely important between what's going on in ukraine and what's going on in the middle east Thank you very much. Uh, it is important to point out that the european support has has been extraordinary us support as well I think ukraine has emphasized that as well the um the interview that you referred to in the economist I highly recommend if if any of you are interested in this topic reading further into it The the term that's used in that interview quite a bit is stalemate And i was i was rather surprised to hear the the chief of staff referring Openly to that. Um, we'll yeah, we'll hope to come back to to those points you were making. Thank you very much