“During 2023, we will have a truce,” Berliner Zietung quotes him as saying.

At the same time, Domreze added that the "dead end" in the conflict will come in the summer.

The ex-general also pointed out the need for a mediator in negotiations between the two sides.

In his opinion, it could be UN Secretary General António Guterres, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Earlier, CNN columnist Nick Welsh suggested that NATO was on the verge of forcing Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a peace treaty with Russia over arms supplies.