Ukraine war will be over by end of spring, country's deputy defence minister predicts

The retired major general says his nation will never stop fighting until victory and even a Russian nuclear strike would not end the struggle to drive out invading Kremlin forces. Security and Defence Editor @haynesdeborah Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Ukrainian forces could be back in Crimea by the end of December and the entire war with Russia will be over by the spring, a Ukrainian deputy defence minister has predicted. Volodymyr Havrylov, a retired major general, said his country would never stop fighting until victory and had even factored in the potential of a Russian nuclear strike. The minister, in an interview with Sky News, said he believed the probability of an atomic attack by Russia to be low, but said: "Yeah, it would be drama. Ukrainian traitor 'exposed' by police - War latest "For everybody it will be just - God knows what scenario - but it [a tactical nuclear strike] is not [a] threat which will stop us from... continuing our war." In ter