Neil Melvin, a military expert from the think tank of the Royal Joint Institute of the Armed Forces of Great Britain, believes that the decisive battle for Ukraine will be in the south, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting counteroffensive actions, and not in the east. Sky News writes about it.

" Counterattacks are starting there and I think we will most likely see the momentum shift to Ukraine as it tries to launch a large-scale counteroffensive to push back the Russians,"

He also explained that the success of the Russians in the Lugansk region is a " But Melvin notes that the main battle lies ahead..

" It took 60 days to make very slow progress. I think the Russians may declare some kind of victory, but the key military battle is yet to come,"

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Recall, NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov said that it is not known who is to blame for the fact that the Russians still managed to occupy the south. He noted that they would deal with this later, because the solution of this issue now could start political processes that cannot be allowed..