Budanov predicts "from the middle to the end of spring, there will be decisive battles." These, he adds, will be "a turning point." Putting the war in soccer/football terms, he says now: "The score is 1:1, and the minute is 70."

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Ambassador: Zelensky plans to attend July NATO summit in Vilnius. According to Petro Beshta, the ambassador to Lithuania, Ukraine hopes attendees at the summit will agree "that as soon as the war is over, Ukraine becomes a member of NATO."

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Budanov says Iran delivered a "test batch" of artillery shells to Russia and "now they are trying to import another batch… it is about 20,000 shells," which is hardly anything. Asked about North Korea providing shells, he says no evidence of them delivered but they have them.

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Budanov on Bakhmut continued. TL;DR, we aren't giving it up. "From a military point of view, holding Bakhmut gives us the ability to contain the Russians in that area and inflict catastrophic losses on them."

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The Spanish edition of my book 'Invasion' is published today by @EdicionesDeusto. Here's my interview with @elmundoes (in Spanish, €) about Ukraine's astonishing fightback against #Russia's bloody war: https://amp.elmundo.es/internacional/2023/02/20/63efa443e4d4d8f9228b45d1.html

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Budanov: "The big Russian offensive…is already underway. But it carries on in such a way that nobody even notices – the offensive is of such quality. They have a strategic task to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk regions by March 31."

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