Russian troops can go on the offensive in the Kupyansk direction, Vadim Skibitsky, deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with Krinform.

" We are still seeing the transfer of the 2nd Mechanized Division of the 1st Tank Army from Belarus. We do not rule out that they may again try to enter our territory across the border, this is the Kupyan direction, and it is possible to resume offensive operations in order to return the territories previously occupied by the enemy in the Lugansk region under control,"

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Earlier, retired US Army General Mark Hertling assumed the intensification of hostilities in Ukraine in the spring. In his opinion, in the spring the Russian army will attract additional reserves, including mobilized. It assumes activation at the front in the spring, because winter slows down military operations..