There are growing signs that Russia is preparing a new large-scale offensive, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with The Guardian. In his opinion, a new offensive will begin in February, the same month when the aggressor launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine..

At the same time, a number of other high-ranking Ukrainians do not exclude that this could happen in January or March.. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, in an interview with The Economist, said that a new offensive is possible "

Reznikov believes that the mobilized Russians, who are not currently in the combat zone, are preparing at the training grounds precisely for a new offensive..

“The second part of the mobilized, about 150 thousand people, began training in different camps. Conscripts prepare for at least three months. This means that they are trying to launch the next offensive wave, probably in February, just like last year.. This is their plan,” the minister explained..