Ukraine has enough weapons to launch a counteroffensive against Russia and the operation will give the country the victory it needs to join NATO, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told Reuters on Monday.

Joining the military alliance will “probably” become possible for Ukraine only after the end of active hostilities, Kuleba said in an interview in Kyiv.

Ukraine has talked for months about an upcoming counteroffensive to retake Russian-occupied territories, using tanks, armored vehicles and artillery provided by its Western allies.

When Kuleb was asked, he did not say whether he had started a counteroffensive, but he answered that the main thing was not when to start, but to end it with the victory of Ukraine.

Kuleba said NATO membership was the next big goal on Ukraine’s agenda after some of its allies agreed to train Ukrainian pilots in Kiev’s coveted F-16 fighter jets.

“We’ve (already) unlocked all the weapons… There’s nothing big left to fight for.”

“Joining NATO cannot stop this war, but joining NATO will stop future wars. Therefore, the best way to ensure security in the region is to reach the moment when Ukraine becomes a member of NATO,” he said.

Russia said Ukraine launched a “large-scale offensive” in Donbas, but its forces managed to repel the attack, killing hundreds of soldiers and destroying dozens of tanks and armored vehicles.

The Russian report says that six mechanized battalions and two tank battalions participated in the offensive, Russian forces destroyed 250 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed 16 tanks and more than 20 pieces of armored vehicles.

But this happened immediately after the Ukrainians published a mysterious video on Sunday: the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published a video in which several soldiers shout “Shhh!” and I put my finger to my mouth, a clip with a message that the Ukrainians do not want to say anything about the counteroffensive and when it will begin.

The Ukrainian military said Monday it had no information about a major offensive that Russia said was launched by Kyiv at five points along the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

At the same time, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine stated that Russian reports about the start of a counteroffensive against Ukraine are aimed at diverting attention from the losses of the Russian Federation in the Bakhmut area.

“Defense includes everything, including counter-offensive actions. That’s why we are taking offensive actions in some areas,” Hanna Malyar said.