The Main Directorate of Intelligence says where decisive battles with the enemy will be fought
The spring and early summer of 2023 will be decisive in a full-scale war.
Decisive battles for Ukraine will take place in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which the enemy intends to occupy completely, Vadym Skibitskyy, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defence Ministry, said in an interview with Delfi.ee.
Around February and March there will be fighting for these regions, the Russians will try to take control of Kupyansk, Svatove, Kreminna in the direction of Kharkiv region. The main battlefield will be in Donbas, the fighting for Bakhmut and Soledar proves it," he said.
At the same time, he noted that an attack by the Russian Federation from the side of Belarus is unlikely.
Skibitsky suggested that when the spring and early summer are behind us, "it is possible to start talking about the end of the war.
We have to get past the first stage - the spring and early summer. We can see where this war is going: the Russian military leadership has changed, the first phase of mobilization is over, the Russian army is regrouping
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