NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg mentioned on Tuesday that Russia plans to militarily take the “entire” Donbas area in japanese Ukraine with the purpose of making a hall from Russia to annexed Crimea.
Russian forces are transferring clear of Kyiv to “regroup, re-arm and resupply and they shift their focus to the east,” he instructed a media convention forward of a Wednesday assembly of NATO international ministers.
“In the coming weeks, we expect a further Russian push in the eastern and southern Ukraine to try to take the entire Donbas and to create a land bridge to occupied Crimea,” he mentioned.