Military-political expert assessed the reality of Russia's "big offensive"

Alexander Kovalenko, a military-political expert of the Information Resistance group, assessed the realism of the developments described by Newsweek.

Indeed, is Russia able to prepare for a big offensive by spring 2024? Ahead of a more detailed answer to this question I will answer briefly - No, - writes the expert.

The expert noted that in particular, the social networks of the Russian Federation spread a fake that the General Staff of the AFU allegedly asks Vladimir Zelensky to give an order to mine Odessa and Mykolayiv regions, because of the fear of a "big" spring offensive of Russia in 2024.

In Oleksandr Kovalenko's opinion, talk of a "great Russian offensive" is an element of the Russian IPSO to demoralise Ukrainians.

It is obvious that Russia launched this demoralising IPSO against the background of the collapse of the front," the expert said.

The expert notes that while the first line of defence has been breached in Zaporizhzhya region and the AFU is preparing to breach the second line of defence, the Russian Federation is spreading demoralizing fakes both for the Ukrainian and Western readers and motivating for the domestic readers.

The expert asked to observe information hygiene and critical thinking. He emphasised that Russia was not capable of carrying out such offensive actions.