In the first episode of "Geopolitics with Alex", Alex discusses Vladimir Putin's speech of 20 September 2022 and how the world should react to it. The new series is sequel to "Understanding the War" which ran from March to July 2022.

Parallel to their retreat in the northeast of Ukraine, Russian troops are closing in on a key city in the eastern region of Donbas. Bakhmut has been under constant shelling for weeks as Russian troops attempt to breach Ukrainian strongholds in the east. R...

Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting for "literally every metre" in Severodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as fighting intensified in an eastern region where the country's top commander said the land "is covered in blood".Severodonetsk and...