The boss of Wagner’s group Yevhen Prigozhin claims that Ukraine is preparing 3 strategic strikes to liberate its territory up to the borders of 1991. He declares that Ukraine has concentrated 200,000 reservists in Donbas, 80,000 of them near Bakhmut.

“The plans include an invasion of the Belgorod region for an exchange, then cutting the L/DPR (the so-called independent Luhansk and Donetsk republics) in two, and finally liberating Crimea,” says Prigozhin.

His message was translated by Dmytro, the founder of the War Translated website.

Prigozhin says that the warm weather is just right for the Russians to start using heavy machinery

Warming spring weather creates ideal conditions for Russia to begin moving heavy military equipment through Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military group Wagner, said CNN.

“Spring is coming. The soil is drying,” Prigozhin said, meaning that “everything is ready for us to start sending heavy equipment to the fields.”

Prigozhin, in an interview shared on Telegram, acknowledged that Ukraine has also received a lot of support from NATO countries, including military equipment, armored vehicles and Leopard tanks, as well as about 200,000 trained reservists.

Officials in Kyiv have long warned of a spring offensive against the backdrop of increased military attacks by the Kremlin.