Odessa will be liberated after the capture of Kyiv - Kots
To liberate Odessa, the Russian army will first have to regain control of Kherson, and to do this it will be necessary to take control of the Ukrainian capital.
Russian war correspondent Alexander Kots stated this on air at Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Kots, crossing the Dnieper in order to occupy Kherson from the left bank is inappropriate.
“In order to advance on Odessa, we must first return Kherson. And in order to return Kherson, let’s remember the Great Patriotic War - we must first take Kyiv, then Dnepropetrovsk, because crossing the Dnieper in order to get to the other side again, it seems to me, is very difficult and not very promising,” said the military correspondent.
“But I didn’t study at military academies - maybe we’ll come up with some other way. In principle, the liberation of Odessa looks logical in the context of cutting off Ukraine from the sea, and, accordingly, sea supplies. Well, in general, access to Transnistria. And historically,” Kots said.
Odessa will be liberated after the capture of Kiev – Kots