BRUSSELS - Russia was looking to stall the fighting in Ukraine over the winter in order to build up its forces for a renewed assault next year, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.
Ukrainian forces have been pushing a counter-offensive in which they have made significant gains in the east and south, including“What we see now is that Russia is actually attempting to try to have some kind of freeze of this war, at least for a short period of time, so they can regroup, repair, recover and then try to launch a bigger offensive next spring,” Mr Stoltenberg told a public event hosted by the Financial Times.
The United States says it expects to seeing fighting continue at a “reduced tempo” in the coming months as both sides look to reconstitute their forces. Mr Stoltenberg said he had “no more information” about alleged Ukrainian drone strikes on air bases inside Russia, after Washington insisted it had
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