 Ukraine may start another counter-offensive in 2025. Sources in international intelligence and military officials believe that combat action in Ukraine will go on for at least two more years. Furthermore, some believe that there will be no major victory on the battlefield in 2024 since both Ukraine and Russia will restore their military strength and that Ukraine can restart its counter-offensive in 2025. CNN sources said. No matter what happens in American politics this year, U.S. and Western intelligence officials believe that Russia's war in Ukraine is likely to go on for much longer. Assessments vary but virtually all of them assume that there will be at least two more years of fighting according to multiple sources familiar with the intelligence long enough to outlast Biden's first term. Privately some U.S. and Western officials say there could be as many as five more years of fighting. CNN sources said a U.S. military official currently stationed in Europe said another attempt at a massive counter-offensive by Ukraine will most likely be made in at least two years with the aim of defeating the Russian forces in the occupied city of Melitopol. He said U.S. and Western officials do not expect either Ukraine or Russia to achieve major victories on the battlefield in 2024. The military official believes that both sides are too exhausted in terms of troops and equipment to see huge moves in 2024. He said Ukraine considers 2025 a more feasible option in terms of what they can generate to start another offensive. A Western intelligence source said that in the short term Ukraine might be able to hold out without U.S. support albeit in a stalemate but that this would still be a significant loss not only for Ukraine but also for the U.S.'s standing in the world.