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00:00Well, first of all, they haven't yet published any photos or videos to prove that they have
00:05actually got boots on the ground in Dnipropetrovsk region, and the Ukrainian side is not admitting
00:11to it. The deep state map updated by Ukrainian Osint Boffins, who have links to the army,
00:18shows the Russian forces at about two kilometers at their closest point from the administrative
00:23boundary between Donetsk region and Dnipropetrovsk region in the east of Dnipropetrovsk region.
00:29This is a very rural part of Dnipropetrovsk region, far from the industrial and population
00:34centers of Dnipro, the regional capital, and Krivirig, which is also a very big city in
00:38Dnipropetrovsk region. But nevertheless, as you said, if the Russians have advanced into
00:43the region, it's symbolically important, because this is a region that, except perhaps a few
00:48incursions at the very, very beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russians had not yet
00:52entered. And it's not one of the four mainland Ukrainian regions that Russia claims to have
00:59annexed. If they do manage to take a significant amount of territory in Dnipropetrovsk region,
01:04which is something that the Ukrainians have been voicing fears about for some time, then it may be
01:10that they want to use it as a bargaining chip to later exchange it for parts of those regions that
01:14they do claim to have annexed. Zaporizhia region, just to the south, for example. But I stress,
01:20so far, it's only the Russians claiming it, the Ukrainians don't admit it. But certainly,
01:24there's been a lot of talk about this as a very real possibility in Ukraine for some time.
01:29Almost a week ago, Gulliver, both sides agreed on plans to exchange the bodies of 6,000 soldiers
01:36killed in action. That swap was supposed to have occurred yesterday. What more do we know?
01:43This weekend, there's supposed to be the exchange of 6,000 soldiers killed in action. I think not all
01:486,000 this weekend, but it's supposed to start with a first batch of 1,212 and also 500 prisoners
01:56of war on each side. There's been a rare public dispute on the question of the lists of people
02:02to be exchanged between Russia and Ukraine. Until recently, these exchanges have been pretty much the
02:06only thing between the two countries when it comes to negotiations that has been going smoothly.
02:11But this time, the Russians say the Ukrainians didn't show up to the appointed rendezvous and
02:16effectively postponed the prisoner of war exchange without warning the Russians. The Ukrainians say
02:21that's absolutely rubbish. They did warn the Russians because they said that the list presented by the
02:26Russians did not conform to the criteria that had been agreed upon in Istanbul last Monday, and they
02:30were waiting for a new list from the Russians of prisoners to be exchanged. And when it comes to the
02:35bodies, I think it's a knock-on effect of the stalling of the prisoner of war exchange that the bodies are
02:40also not being exchanged so far. The Russians have been showing videos of refrigerated trucks that
02:47they say have got the bodies in. The Ukrainians have said that the videos were not filmed in the place where the
02:52rendezvous was supposed to be. That's where we're at so far. The Ukrainian coordination headquarters that deals with
02:59prisoners of war exchanges and exchanges of bodies nevertheless says that they very much hope that both these exchanges will be able to go ahead in the very near future.
03:08to the west side.
03:11To the east side, please check in with us when we seeonia.
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