The statement raised concerns at the beginning of the new week, the eighth since Russia’s war of aggression once morest Ukraine began. “There will be an offensive not only on Mariupol, but also on other places, towns and villages,” said the Moscow-loyal Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov in a Telegram video. First the Donbass regions of Luhansk and Donetsk will be “completely liberated”, then Kyiv and all other cities will be taken.