Russia has no intention of ending the war against Ukraine and will continue offensive operations in various directions, one of the options that Ukrainian officials are considering is the possibility of a simultaneous attack from the north and east, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine claims, as quoted by Ukrainian Pravda.

• “In the new year, the Russians will try to continue offensive actions. So far, it has not been possible to achieve the goal in any of the directions. They understand that they will lose, but they do not plan to end the war (started ten months ago), according to Ukrainian military intelligence.
• We are considering the possibility that they will attack from the north and the east at the same time,” Andrii Chernyak, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said in a statement posted on the department’s official website. .

According to him, the Russians will try to preserve the land corridor in Crimea and conquer the entire Donetsk region.

In the next four to five months, according to GUR forecasts, the Russian army may lose another 70,000 soldiers in Ukraine. According to Kyiv’s estimates, Russia lost more than 100,000 soldiers during the ten-month war in Ukraine.

Ukraine is preparing for any actions by the Russian troops, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Anna Malyar said in a separate statement on Tuesday, who emphasized that at the moment Kyiv does not know exactly from which direction the Russian Army will launch a new large-scale offensive this year, since the enemy has several scenarios and makes a decision at the last moment, reports RBC.ua.

“The opponent also has, as before, several scenarios and orients himself in the situation. Russians make decisions in the last hours, and those who implement them do not know a day before how, where and what decision they will have to implement,” said Malyar, answering a journalist’s question during a press conference.

The Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine clarified that the Russian enemy focuses on the situation and dynamics of the front, calculating its resources.

“We always openly say that personnel and technical transfers are currently taking place on the territory of Belarus. Such movements have been taking place since February. “Training” is constantly being conducted there, but in fact we understand that this is a state of preparation,” said Anna Malyar.

According to her, the territory of Belarus is constantly being used by the Russians as part of the war waged in Ukraine. “If Belarus could be used more intensively? Russia can use anything, it’s war. Therefore, everyone should be ready for any development of events, but understand that we have information and, as far as possible, the state is prepared,” the Ukrainian official added.

After mobilizing on the orders of Vladimir Putin, Russia is training 200,000 new soldiers and will almost certainly try to attack Kyiv again, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, recently warned.

In turn, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov did not rule out that the Russian army in January-February will create a strike group on the territory of Belarus, which will consist of mobilized. (Source: Agerpres)