Ukraine no longer hides that “soon” will launch the expected counteroffensive for which he has “everything ready”, while in Russia doubts persist about the capacity of his army to resist an enemy advance along the entire front.

“The main battles will come soon. We have to free our land and our people from Russian captivity. We have to fully restore our state borders both on land and sea,” Ukrainian Army Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny announced. Also the Defense Minister Ukrainian Oleskii Reznikov has confirmed that “everything is ready” for the start of offensive actions without mentioning specific dates.

According to Reznikov, the Ukrainian forces are already in the “home stretch” of preparations.

Doubts reign in Russia

Meanwhile, in Russia the Ukrainian counterattack is the main topic of discussion in recent weeks and one of the most popular searches on the internet. “The Ukrainian army is ready for the counteroffensive. The number of its troops is not decreasing, but growing, growing every day,” said the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in an interview.

According to Prigozhin, the enemy did not start the counterattack due to bad weather and “maybe, some internal problems that they had to solve.”

The head of Wagner, Russia’s main assault force in Ukraine, recalled that after World War II Russia was involved only in the conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria and eastern Ukraine. “After (the annexation of) Crimea, we thought that we are the strongest“He opined to question the current preparation of the troops for the Ukrainian counterattack.

Igor Strelkov, who led the pro-Russian uprising in Donbas in 2014, in turn opined that the next step is up to the Ukrainians, because the Russian generals “during the winter and spring they could do practically nothing.”

However, other sources confirm the construction of russian fortifications along the entire front line to stop the Ukrainian counterattack.

New missile attacks

The preparation of the sides for the imminent counteroffensive occurs in the midst of new attacks with Russian missiles, one of which on Sunday night left four injured in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where it caused significant damage to the infrastructure.

It’s about the second wave of Russian bombing in three days, which on this occasion also affected Kherson (southern Ukraine). According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the attack was aimed at military objectives and its targets were hit.

The Russian military department said the attack damaged the capacity of Ukrainian military industry companies engaged in producing weapons, military equipment and ammunition. The leader of the “Together with Russia” movement, Vladimir Rogov, affirmed for his part that the bombing was intended to reduce the military capabilities of the Ukrainians in the face of the counteroffensive.