 Ukrainian Army tank brigade soldiers in positions near Bakhmut said on April 3 that they are ready for a long-awaited counter-offensive. People are ready for the counter-offensive. All we are waiting for is marching orders and details on which direction we should go forward on Bakhmut, Soldar or anywhere else," said a 35-year-old soldier of the tank brigade who introduced himself with his non-begare polyad. The tanks we fix do not have very serious problems. We fix them quickly and basically, all vehicles at our brigade are ready," polyad added. Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznikovs said last week that a spring counter-offensive could begin as soon as mid-April. Ukraine hopes the arrival of Western weapons including tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, munitions will give the country an advantage over the enemy and improved weather conditions will allow troops to move forward. People are ready for the counter-offensive. We are waiting for the command and on which direction we should go. We will meet Bakhmut, Soldar or anywhere else. We are in a very global problem. We are actively defending our units. We are doing quite quickly. We have almost all the vehicles in the battalion ready. We are all waiting for the equipment, because the equipment is already old and it breaks very quickly. We are waiting for new foreign partners. Even a small technical officer has arrived. We have already found the vehicle. We were asking the guys, but they turned him upside down. The guys are looking at us like, what are you looking at? There is no going away, but you are seeing a kick. We are not listening to him. I can see the tank i was getting down from before. There are even vehicles in the middle of theamoto.