The event does not believe in the success of the spring offensive of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, if it happens - CNN

According to the interlocutor of the media, difficulties with security may not interfere with the Russian Federation "try to start the offensive" this spring, but the possibility of an aggressor state to change the course of war is "limited". "There are serious restrictions on their ability to fill the losses they have suffered in Ukraine, so you see how they go to international partners to try to fill in the gap," Western officials said.

The current offensive actions of the Russian Federation are primarily related to the fact that "the available forces and means are deployed and relocated in place," the publication says. "You see how (Russians) take offensive actions, but I do not think you see the beginning of the offensive in the great strategic sense of the word. It is unlikely that hundreds of thousands of mobilized reservists are formed in cohesive form , - officials explained.

In addition, officials doubted that the Russian Federation will attract Belarus to start the offensive in the coming months. "Belarus provides a useful training platform for Russian forces where they can hire outsourcing for training, and then transport them back to the front line in Ukraine. We see Russian troops in Belarus. We do not see them being deployed at the border and now in They do not have such logistics opportunities to threaten Kiev, "the event officials believe.

At the same time, the presence of Russian troops in the territory of Belarus encourages Ukraine to place its forces in the northern direction as a response to potential risk, though "extremely unlikely" that the neighboring republic will become a platform for the offensive "in the next few months", the interlocutors of journalists added.

We will remind, in an interview with the American edition of Washington Post Chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov also stated that the attempt of the Russian Federation from Belarus is unlikely. According to him, focusing its forces in the neighboring republic, Russia only tries to recover Ukrainian troops to the northern border.