The head of the Center for Military Legal Research, Alexander Musienko, agrees with yesterday's information from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense that the Russians can go on the offensive simultaneously from the north and east. He notes that their task is to keep the territories that the Russian Federation managed to occupy and maintain the land border to Crimea.. In a comment to Channel 24, Musienko noted that the Russian troops are still faced with the task of reaching the administrative borders of Donetsk and Lugansk regions..

" The main direction of the enemy's strike may be from the Belgorod and Kursk regions of Russia, so as not to stretch the " - Either Belarus can become an auxiliary direction in order to draw off our forces and means, or directly the southern direction - from the Melitopol or Tokmak region. This is one of the scenarios that could be.

It is obvious that the Russian military has a maximum task - to attack the largest part of our country. However, the expert doubts that they can handle it..

" According to it, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will break through the enemy’s defenses, then they will distribute their efforts and disperse along the entire front line - they will not be able to concentrate large forces and capabilities on any particular sector,"

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Recall, the military-political command of Ukraine warns that Russia is preparing to launch a new offensive against Ukraine in 2023.. The most optimistic option is if this happens in February-March. At the same time, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny notes that it is not yet clear in which direction this will happen..

Therefore, he does not exclude the possibility that the occupiers will again try to capture Kyiv, starting the operation from Belarus..

On December 19, for the first time in three years, Russian leader Vladimir Putin traveled to Minsk to negotiate with dictator Alexander Lukashenko.. Most likely, there he wanted to persuade the self-proclaimed president of the Republic of Belarus to directly participate in the war against Ukraine, but analysts at the US Institute for the Study of War believe that Putin did not succeed..