Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian army’s planned spring offensive had indeed begun. “Russian attacks are already taking place on multiple fronts,” Zelenskyyy said in a BBC interview, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president believes that the Ukrainian armed forces are capable of containing the onslaught of Russian troops and launching a counter-offensive, but this requires more help from Western countries. “Certainly, modern weapons are what bring peace closer. The language of arms is the only one Russia understands,” Zelenskyyy said.
At the same time, he again stressed that Ukraine will not make any territorial concessions or compromises with Vladimir Putin. Returning Ukrainian territories to Russia would be a mistake, because after that Russia “will come back again and again.” Any territorial compromise would only weaken the Ukrainian state and create “a bomb in the center of Ukraine and a bomb in the center of Europe”, is sure the Ukrainian president. According to Zelenskyyy, the question is not the word “compromise”, but with whom he is. A compromise with Putin is not possible because he has no faith, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy .
US intelligence and Western analysts have repeatedly warned since the start of the year that Moscow is planning a new offensive that could coincide with the anniversary of the invasion.
In early February, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Russian military would try to “recover past defeats” in February.
In recent days, there have been more and more predictions that Russia may launch an offensive to prevent the arrival of new batches of modern military equipment in Ukraine.
The Financial Times recently reported, citing two unnamed intelligence sources from an unnamed Western country, that Russia is stockpiling planes and helicopters near Ukraine’s borders and intends to use them for a future major offensive. Western allies in this regard emphasize the need to send Ukraine as many air defense assets as possible.
On February 13, The Washington Post wrote that, according to estimates by Ukrainian and Western intelligence services, Russia currently has around 300,000 people concentrated in Ukraine, twice as many as at the start of the invasion.
