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Ukrainian authorities have received documents containing plans for the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces for 2025–2027. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this in a statement to journalists on March 2.
According to him, Kyiv has obtained materials concerning Russia's plans for 2025, 2026, and 2027. Zelensky noted that the documents for 2025 are "slightly outdated" and, in his assessment, the tasks assigned to the Russian army for the current period have not been fulfilled.
The Ukrainian President stated that Moscow's goal in 2026–2027 remains the complete occupation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as advancement in the Zaporizhzhia region, in the direction of the city of Dnipro and the Odessa region.
"We received documents, plans for 2025–2026–2027, which are slightly outdated for 2025. We see that they haven't achieved their goals. We also received plans for 2026–2027. We understand what they want. We understand that their objectives remain relevant—the occupation of the east of our country, namely the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. They certainly want to continue in the Zaporizhia region, and in the Dnipro region as well. It's difficult for them, but they are also looking at the Odesa region. We see these objectives. But these maps currently have nothing to do with reality, because they are unable to achieve their objectives," Ukrinform quotes Zelenskyy as saying.
As the head of state clarified, the offensive Russian troops had planned for the spring of 2026 was contingent on achieving their objectives by the end of 2025. He stated that due to the failure to achieve these objectives, Russia cannot launch the planned March offensive.
"I don't know if there will be an offensive in the spring or exactly when. They want to attack, but they don't have the strength for it yet… Everything depends on contracts, on offensives, on weapons, on arms supplies to us, and also on our production," the president was quoted as saying by RBC-Ukraine.
According to Channel 24, Zelensky also reported that, according to Ukrainian intelligence, Russian President Vladimir Putin is not currently planning to declare a general mobilization.
Earlier, on February 24, Pavlo Palisa, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, stated in an interview with the publication "We Are Ukraine" that, according to his information, the Russian side intends to completely occupy the territory of Ukraine's Donetsk region by the end of March. He also stated that they plan to make maximum advances in the Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions, and to create a buffer zone along the border in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
Palisa noted that, if successful, by the end of the year, Russian forces will attempt to expand their offensive to capture or create the conditions for capturing Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and eventually Odesa. However, he emphasized that he currently does not see the enemy implementing these plans in the next six months.
