All language subtitles for 24-02-2023[iu89y78t67njnn

"Decisive battles await Ukraine from the
middle to the end of spring, and this will

be a turning point in the war. If you apply the
soccer analogy to the 12th month of the war,

the score is now 1 to 1, and the minute
is 70. This is a subjective vision," the

head of Ukrainian intelligence told
Budanov in an interview with Forbes.

Ukrainian forces are holding their
ground, although heavy fighting is

taking place all along the line. The most
difficult now is to the north of Bakhmut.

Under Bakhmut, the enemy is throwing more and
more forces, just to achieve at least some result.

For the most part, they are working in the
form of combined brigades - convicts from

the Wagner Group, regular
units of the Russian army,

and there are even already militants from
the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk republics.

The Russians have a strategic goal of reaching the

administrative borders of the Donetsk and
Luhansk regions by March 31 at any cost.

That, the previously announced "big Russian
offensive" has begun and is already underway.

But it is going on in such a way that
it does not look like a big offensive.

It's like that bad movie - the trailer was better
than the work itself. Yes, there are difficult

sections, but otherwise - nothing that Ukrainian
army fighters have not previously encountered.

Near Bakhmut, the occupants are changing
tactics. Infantry is coming in wave after wave,

and Russian artillery now supports only rare units
of armored vehicles. Remember we used to talk

about the enemy's shell hunger? This is it, not
in all directions, but the trend is already clear.

For two months now Russian troops have been
living in the most ammunition-saving mode.

They are now being used more or less normally
only in Bakhmut and Limansk direction.

Russia's artillery stockpile has reached
30 percent, the remnants of missiles are

almost exhausted, and the entire Russian defense
industry can produce about 40 missiles a month.

Russia produces far fewer shells than
it uses and it will not be possible

to deploy more production because
Russia is not even the Soviet Union.

After victory, Ukraine should create
a "security zone" around its border.

A demilitarized zone with permanent control.
From 40 to 100 km deep into Russian territory.

I will also read the fresh statements
of two other intelligence agencies.

German intelligence believes that the Kremlin
leadership can mobilize up to a million more

people for the war against Ukraine. The main thing
to understand is that they cannot do it all at

once, only in 3-4 stages. The usual replacement
of the recycled occupiers, nothing new.

British Intelligence: "Putin in his
speeches continues to say that the

war is an existential threat to Russia,
while also claiming that all is well and

is going according to plan. The
simultaneous use of these theses

makes both meaningless. You'd think he
was saying something logical before that.