From the middle to the end of spring, decisive battles will take place, this will be a "turning point," Head of the Main Intelligence Agency of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry Kyrylo Budanov has said.

As Budanov said in an interview with Forbes Ukraine, if we apply the football analogy to the year of the big war, now "the score is 1:1, and the minute is 70. This is a subjective vision."

He also said Russia's "big offensive" is already underway.

"But it goes so well that not everyone even sees it, this is an offensive of such quality. They have a strategic task, to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by March 31," Budanov said.