In the next 2-3 months, the advantage in the war will be given to the side that accumulates more resources and uses them more effectively.

In this context, much depends on the help of Ukraine's partners, from whom they expect the necessary weapons for a counteroffensive.

Oleksandr Musienko, head of the Center for Military and Legal Research, made such a forecast on the air of the telethon.

According to him, in the short term, the Defense Forces of Ukraine need to repulse all enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Bakhmut directions, where the enemy has sent large forces and where the fiercest battles are ongoing.

"In the week before the New Year, we managed to stabilize the situation and inflict serious losses on the Russian troops.

This allowed us to take a breath and prepare for further defense, perhaps even with the transition to local counteroffensive actions," the expert noted. 

Oleksandr Musienko noted that in this direction the enemy is trying to achieve two goals — to break through the defense and to pull out as many Ukrainian troops as possible in order to prevent them from being used in other directions. 

According to the expert, the same heavy battles are taking place in the Luhansk direction in the Kreminnaya area, with the difference that Ukrainian troops are advancing. 

"The fighting is going on a few kilometers from Kreminnaya, so one can only wish success to our Defense Forces - to develop success and get access to this important bridgehead, which decides a lot for the further advance to Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Starobilsk and in general for the de-occupation of the East," he emphasized he.

Musienko noted that both enemy and Ukrainian troops are currently maneuvering.

"There is a struggle for who will outwit whom - will concentrate the troops in a certain direction and deliver the necessary blow to defeat the enemy.

There are reasons to believe that it will be Ukrainian troops - they have already outwitted themselves in some ways," the expert hinted.

In the next two or three years, Musienko predicts a struggle for the initiative, the accumulation of resources and their timely and effective use. 

"The Armed Forces have the task of developing a counteroffensive and deoccupation.

The enemy will not stop looking for the possibility of offensive actions either.

The Russians will assemble a strike group in order to be ready to deploy them in the spring on one main and one or two auxiliary ones," the expert noted.

According to him, the advantage will be gained by the side that accumulates more resources and will be ready to launch an offensive first

"Much depends on our partners, from whom we expect the weapons we need," Musienko emphasized.   

We will remind, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg believes that Russia's war against Ukraine will be protracted, and peace will depend on the situation on the battlefield. 

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