“Our desire for the near future is to help Ukraine survive and launch the counteroffensive that it wants to wage,” RIA Novosti quoted Macron as saying at a press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Earlier, the chairman of the movement “We are together with Russia”, Vladimir Rogov, announced the formation of a shock group in the Armed Forces of Ukraine for an offensive in the south.

At the end of February, a member of the Rada from the Holos party, the secretary of the parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence, Roman Kostenko, admitted that Ukrainian troops could launch a counteroffensive through Melitopol and Berdyansk.