Zelenskyy: Kremlin plans further offensive operations in Ukraine; working out plan on NATO

Ukrainian intelligence has information that Russia's political leadership is planning further offensives in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after hearing a report from Chief of the Main Intelligence Agency Oleh Ivaschenko.

"We have specific documents from the Russian General Staff confirming that the occupiers themselves acknowledge their inability to fulfil the tasks set by their political leadership. Ukraine's Defense Forces are ensuring the destruction of the Russian army's offensive potential, with the occupiers' irrecoverable losses already amounting to about 60% of their total losses. Despite this, Russia's political leadership is planning further offensive operations and preparing to involve more personnel, in particular by expanding mobilization processes in Russia," Zelenskyy said on Telegram.

Accordingly, he stressed, Ukraine's task is to further increase the percentage of the occupier's irrecoverable losses, densify the line of drone use at the front, and scale up long-range sanctions against Russian weapons production and the oil industry.

"We will also inform our partners about Moscow’s further work on plans for operations against NATO countries, as well as attempts to involve Belarus more deeply in carrying out Russian tasks," the president said.