{"id":1082445,"date":"2021-12-03T23:58:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T04:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1082445"},"modified":"2021-12-03T23:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T04:58:35","slug":"ukraine-warns-of-large-scale-russian-offensive-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-warns-of-large-scale-russian-offensive-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Warns of Large-Scale Russian Offensive in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-warns-of-large-scale-russian-offensive-in-january%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1082445&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Ukraine Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov warned on Friday that Russia now has over 94,000 troops massed along the border and could be plotting an invasion before the end of January 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur intelligence analyses all scenarios, including the worst. It notes that the likelihood of a large-scale escalation from Russia exists. The most likely time to reach readiness for an escalation will be the end of January,\u201d Reznikov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/large-scale-russian-offensive-possible-january-ukraine-says-2021-12-03\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> to the Ukrainian parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Reznikov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-defense\/3362322-largescale-escalation-by-russia-possible-in-late-jan-reznikov.html\"><span>assured<\/span><\/a><span> parliament that \u201cif necessary, Ukraine will fight back,\u201d but said it was better to work with allies to deter an invasion by changing Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s calculations of cost and benefit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe better we work \u2013 alone and together with our partners \u2013 the less the risk of escalation. The way is to make the price of possible escalation unacceptable for the aggressor,\u201d he advised.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18557242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/afp\/01\/russian-forces-conduct-military-exercises-ukraine-april-2021-afp-russian-defence-ministry-afp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18557242 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/russian-forces-conduct-military-exercises-ukraine-april-2021-afp-russian-defence-ministry-afp-1024x682-1.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian forces conduct military exercises near Ukraine in April 2021. (AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Reznikov said Russia has been using a tactic modeled on ocean tides to build up its forces on the Ukrainian border: Russian troops advance, camp on the border for a while, and then pull back \u2013 but they leave their equipment behind, so their positions remain supplied, fortified, and ready for a surge of troops to roll in when the invasion begins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf two large landing ships of the Baltic Fleet enter the Black Sea from the Mediterranean Sea, their total number in the region will grow to nine. Together with boats, this will allow the enemy to simultaneously transfer up to 3,000 servicemen and up to 250 armored combat vehicles. This keeps the level of tensions in the Azov-Black Sea region,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16540070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aptopix-russia-nato-northern-fleet-flagship-pyotr-veilikiy-peter-missile-cruiser-is-at-arct.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16540070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/aptopix-russia-nato-northern-fleet-flagship-pyotr-veilikiy-peter-missile-cruiser-is-at-arct.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Northern Fleet\u2019s flagship, the Pyotr Veilikiy (Peter the Great) missile cruiser. (AP Photo\/Alexander Zemlianichenko)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Reznikov told lawmakers it was important to proceed with a joint Ukrainian-British project to build two naval bases near the Crimean peninsula, colonized by Russia in 2014, to counter Russia\u2019s strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reznikov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-new-defense-minister\/31545565.html\"><span>assumed<\/span><\/a><span> the post of defense minister in early November after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/ukraine-deputy-prime-minister-resigns\/31539417.html\"><span>resigning<\/span><\/a><span> as deputy prime minister for Eastern reintegration, a position he held since March 2020. The reason for his resignation was not made public, but he was quickly nominated and confirmed as defense minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The previous defense minister, Andrii Taran, became <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-appoints-new-defence-minister-amid-scrutiny-russian-troop-movements-2021-11-04\/\"><span>unpopular<\/span><\/a><span> with all parties in parliament because he was slow to implement vital reforms. Reznikov\u2019s move into the position could have been intended to signal a new determination to get the Ukrainian military into top logistical shape, coupled with an acknowledgment that eastern Ukraine\u2019s separatists would not be reintegrating with the Kyiv government any time soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-defense\/3357772-russians-sowing-panic-among-own-audiences-to-justify-possible-aggression-against-ukraine-reznikov.html\"><span>television interview<\/span><\/a><span> last week, Reznikov accused the Russians of waging an \u201cinformation war\u201d against its own citizens to prepare them for military action, while simultaneously testing and measuring the West\u2019s resolve to hold the line in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cToday, they are creating hysteria among their population, among the Russian people, in order to be able to justify possible aggression they may decide to pursue,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNATO is undergoing a stress test, the European Union is undergoing a stress test, which started off in Lithuania, then continued in Poland. They are generally testing the world\u2019s resilience,\u201d Reznikov said, expressing confidence that NATO would pass the test and provide the support Ukraine needs to resist Russian aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov warned on Friday that Russia now has over 94,000 troops massed along the border and could be plotting an invasion before the end of January &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}