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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that a new major Russian offensive in Ukraine is already underway.

Stoltenberg spoke to reporters in Brussels on February 13, 2013. The Western military alliance saw “no sign whatsoever” Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for peace.

“What we see is President Putin and Russia still wanting to control Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said. “We see how they are sending more troops, more weapons, more capabilities.”

Russian forces have been fighting an offensive in eastern Ukraine since months. They are trying to capture strategic cities and towns, including Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

British intelligence On February 13, Russia stated that, despite its current operational focus in central Donbass, it remains concerned about protecting the “extremities of its extended front line,” It said that it is approximately 1,288 kilometers in length.

It stated that Russian forces had been defeated. “continued construction of defensive fortifications” There were also deployments of personnel in the Zaporizhzhya-Luhansk regions.

British intelligence also said that Russia had lost hundreds of soldiers per day over the past week. On February 13, it stated that 824 Russian invaders were killed by Ukrainian forces per day, four times more than in June or July.

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British analysts base the figure on daily reports of Ukraine’s General Staff. However, intelligence reports stress that they cannot verify the method used to estimate the number. They did however note that the numbers reflect the trends at the front.

Stoltenberg claimed that Ukraine is using more ammunition than NATO countries, and asked them to cease this practice. “ramp up production.”

“The current rate of Ukraine’s ammunition expenditure is many times higher than our current rate of production. This puts our defense industries under strain,” He said.

Stoltenberg said that the contentious question of Ukraine’s provision of modern combat aircraft to Ukraine will be discussed at a meeting with Kyiv’s Western supporters in Brussels on February 14.

Kyiv was anticipating a wider offensive that could target not only the Donbas region of Donetsk, Luhansk, in the east but also Kharkhiv in the northeast and Zaporizhzhya the southeast.

Russia announced on February 11 that it had carried out an a “massive strike” With missiles and drones attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, and that it had blocked rails and land routes used for delivering Western weaponry to Ukrainian forces.

The attack was seen by some observers as an indication that the broader offensive– expected in February ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked invasion on February 24 — had begun.

After a surprise visit to European capitals, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Ukrainian President, returned to Ukraine to lobby for more heavy weaponry including fighter jets and longer-range missiles to defend Ukraine and retake territory that was lost.

Western countries have already agreed to supply limited numbers of modern main battle tanks, including German-made Leopard 2s, at Ukraine’s request, and have continued to supply artillery, combat vehicles, and other weapons and ammunition.

A Berlin government spokesperson announced that Germany had begun training the Ukrainian military in its Leopard 2 tanks. The spokesman stated that the training would end by March 31, when Germany will turn over the tanks for Ukraine.

In Poland, the training of Ukrainians using German Leopard 2 tanks has also started.

Polish President Andrzej Duda According to a Defense Ministry statement, the training is being carried out by experienced soldiers who are committed to protecting Ukraine.

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