The great offensive of Russia has not begun, the war will intensify in the spring - the White House

The Coordinator of the White House National Security Council on Strategic Communications John Kirby stated this at a briefing. "I do not see that all this was formed (Kirby speaks of the formation of the offensive groups of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - ed. ). Preparing for the strengthening of war is one of the reasons why the United States and other countries have been transmitting military assistance packages to Ukraine in recent weeks, Kirby added.

"These are opportunities that allow the Armed Forces to fight in open terrain. Assistance includes armored arsenals and artillery. All this is needed to prepare for the fact that the Russians can plan for spring," the Council Coordinator said. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues offensive operations in the Donbass. According to Kirby, the battles around Bakhmut retain high intensity.

"We believe that he [Russian President Vladimir Putin] will try to take advantage of the winter months to replenish the reserves, re -equipment of the army and restore attack in the spring," the White House representative said. Kirby drew attention to the last massive rocket attack in Ukraine on February 10.

"As we have seen in the last 12 hours, he [Putin] is ready to continue firing Ukraine with winged missiles, disable civil infrastructure and try to complicate the life of Ukrainians," he summed up. We will remind that according to the newspaper The New York Times Moscow sent to Ukraine 320 thousand soldiers, another 150 thousand are on landfills. The invaders try to concentrate the forces away from the radius of the GMLRS missiles.