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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is wrapping up preparations for a counteroffensive against Russian forces and is largely ready for it to go ahead, Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Friday.<\/p>\n

“As soon as there is God’s will, the weather and a decision by commanders, we will do it,” he told an online news briefing.<\/p>\n

He gave no date for when the counteroffensive would start but said: “Globally speaking, we are to a high percentage ready.” <\/p>\n

Kyiv hopes its planned counteroffensive will change the dynamics of the war that has raged since Russia invaded Ukraine 14 months ago.<\/p>\n

Russia holds swathes of Ukrainian territory in the east, south and southeast. Ukraine’s military said in its latest daily report on the war that Bakhmut, a small city in the east, remained the focus of fighting.<\/p>\n

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this week that Kyiv’s foreign allies and partners had delivered almost all their promised combat vehicles to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Reznikov said Ukraine had received a lot of modern equipment, including arms that would serve as an “iron fist”, and that training on some Western equipment was continuing.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Ukrainian troops have been training in the West to use different military assets on the battlefield in a combined way.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Olena Harmash, Editing by Timothy Heritage)<\/p>\n

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