New onset in Ukraine: GUR Ministry of Defense learned about Russia's military plans in 2023

Ukrainian military intelligence is expecting a wave of attack in the north or east. The Russian army is waiting for losses - 70,000 occupiers may die in the next 4 months. Russian invaders are not going to end the war with Ukraine in 2023 and try to go to new offenses. On January 2, a representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Chernyak, said this in a comment to the RBC-Ukraine agency "RBC-Ukraine".

"In any of the directions, they have not managed to achieve their goal. They understand what they lose, but they do not plan to end the war," the military said. The main question is in which territories of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation plan to advance. According to Chernyak, Ukrainian scouts cannot make forecasts, but suggest that a new attack will take place in the north or east.

"Such actions of the enemy are envisaged by our troops for this," - continued the representative of the GUR Ministry of Defense. In the next 4-5 months, the Russian army can lose another 70,000 soldiers. The Kremlin is ready for such losses, Chernyak summed up.

The deputy director of the Army Center, Conversion and International Affairs, Michael Samus believes that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will only be able to delay the Armed Forces to the north to try to break the situation or stop their failure in the east and south. At this time, the Armed Forces will be completed with the de -occupation of Donbass and will be in the direction of Crimea, he said.

"The enemy will have to drive the personnel from Belarus to stop the processes that may already become irreversible at that time," he said. The enemy troops, as Chernyak said, do not have enough strength and money in the territory of Belarus for the attack. In this country there is an increase in the military power of the Russian Federation-there were part of the troops of the 1st tank army.

The Russians, according to him, will try to keep the land corridor in the occupied Crimea and capture the entire Donetsk region. It will not be possible to force the Dnieper to capture Kherson again. According to the military, there is now military-technical exhaustion of the Russian Federation-modern ammunition remains for several months, and hundreds of thousands of Soviet will also gradually end.

"They are able to produce up to 40 modern missiles a month, they cannot produce enough rocket-artillery weapons," Chernyak said. On December 31, the American Institute for Studying War reported about a shortage of artillery shells in the Russian Federation. The invaders could have shot up to 60 thousand shells a day, and now a maximum of 20,000.