There is now a relative pause at the front.

Neither side has the strength for a large-scale offensive yet.

This opinion was expressed by military analyst Oleksiy Hetman, FREEDOM informs.

"Neither the Russian Federation nor Ukraine has such forces to carry out a full-scale offensive. Therefore, by and large, we can say that there are local battles, and our

. This is an advance of several tens of kilometers. It is not can be called a serious success. Although, of course, it's great, it's right. A

is currently taking place near Bakhmut with small advances in one direction or another. Therefore, it's impossible to talk about any significant changes on the front line yet," the expert explains.

The Hetman assessed the prospects of the new offensive of the Russian army, which is currently being written about so much in the press.

"When it is said that there will be an offensive in February and at the end of spring, these are

that the Russian Federation is preparing. They wanted to go from the south through Zaporizhzhia to the city of Dnipro. And to do the same from the north through Kharkiv and Poltava - to go to the city of Dnipro in order to our group on the left bank got into a big serious encirclement," he said.

According to the expert, the activation of the occupiers in the Zaporizhzhia direction is more like combat reconnaissance.

"That's why they tried to see how well everything is in the Armed Forces near Zaporizhzhia, they made several attacks, nothing came out of them. And again, while the trench warfare continues," Hetman concluded.

It will be recalled that Russian propagandists recently announced that their forces had launched an offensive in the Zaporozhye region.

In particular, terrorist Ihor Girkin-Strelkov spoke about this. 

However, the Armed Forces assured that the propagandists' statements about the alleged "breakthrough" of the Ukrainian defense are fake.

According to military expert Ihor Romanenko, the occupiers in the Zaporozhye direction show that they are preparing for an offensive.

But in fact, they have a very dangerous situation there.

According to Canadian intelligence, the

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