Oleksiy Arestovych

, an adviser to the Office of the President of Volodymyr Zelenskyi ,

does not believe that Kyiv is under threat of an attack by the Russian army.

Although the threat of a new offensive by the Russian Federation exists.

He expressed this opinion to the Russian journalist Yulia Latynina.

"They (the Russians - Ed.) have accumulated 150-200 thousand and somewhere they will now be used. Somewhere and now - they need correction. Because opinions differ greatly. Some say February, some even - January. Others say - March... ", - said Arestovych.

According to him, the decision to enter this number of soldiers into battle has already been made.

Arestovych believes that the forces will probably be thrown at Donbas, Luhansk or Zaporizhzhia.

Like, they will work on more "real tasks" (as the occupiers believe) - such as the complete capture of the Donetsk region.

However, they will not succeed, Arestovych stressed. 

"I do not think that it will be a terrible attack on Kyiv, because, according to some data that has already been published in the open press, the Russian troops have taken out of Belarus all the ammunition that was brought there... for the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Common sense says that taking Kyiv a second time or trying to take it is stupidity," said the adviser to the President's Office.

We will remind, earlier Oleksiy Arestovych expressed the opinion that the

Russian Federation can advance in several directions

: in Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk.

Maybe Kharkiv will be "touched" because Zaporizhzhia is adjacent to Donetsk, and Kharkiv is adjacent to Luhansk. 

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