Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s Defence Minister, has stated that the country's defence forces expect Russian offensive operations before the symbolic date of 24 February, when the full-scale invasion began; however, he urged people to trust only official information. Quote: "We still, of course, expect possible Russian offensive operations, because it's February, and they like symbolism, and 24 February marks a year since this invasion began, the full-scale Ukrainian-Russian war, which began in 2014. "This war could have been avoided altogether if Nord Stream 2 had been stopped, if access to the SWIFT system had been cut off, if Russian ships had been banned from entering international ports, if Europe had stopped buying their gas, which they did anyway, if they had started to block assets of Russian oligarchs, this war could have been avoided," the minister is convinced