"They are ready and amass their efforts and people. They roll out medical infrastructure and accumulate ammunition. They also accumulate provisions as their personnel used to starve here. They [command] sent them [soldiers] for 2-3 days, thinking that they would capture everything but they were left without anything instead. They prepare now everything, but they are currently unable to start the second aggressive stage simply because the Armed Forces of Ukraine deter them," Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said during the nationwide telethon, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
As NBC News reported with reference to two senior U.S. defense officials, Russia could begin the next phase of its military campaign in Ukraine as soon as this weekend or early next week.
