Russia is using the winter period to replenish personnel and rearm in order to resume offensive operations in Ukraine in the spring, John Kirby, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, Report informs, citing Ukrainian media.
He said 'the Russians continue to conduct offensive operations in the Donbas area,' especially around Bakhmut.
At the same time, Kirby expressed the US assessment that Russia would try to take advantage of these winter months to restock, resupply, rearm his manpower in "renewed offensive operations come spring."
According to Kirby, as the weather improves, "the fighting will probably get more vicious."