"It's unrealistic now," a well-known war correspondent said that Russia does not have the strength to liberate Odessa

War correspondent Alexander Kots, who at the beginning of the Second World War showed the public views of Kyiv taken through binoculars from the positions of Russian troops, now claims that the Russian army does not have the strength to liberate Odessa in the foreseeable future.

"Do you think Odessa and Nikolaev should be taken, or is this a matter of high-stakes politics between Russia and the United States?" a war correspondent was asked during a blog stream, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.

"Odessa and Nikolaev, of course, must be taken in order to cut Ukraine off from the Black Sea and to rest assured until the end of time that everything will be fine with our Black Sea Fleet. And naturally, in order to break through a land corridor to Transnistria.

"But at the same time, I understand that this is unrealistic right now. Well, simply unrealistic. We don't have the resources to, first of all, go there. First, we need to liberate Kherson, liberate Zaporizhia , so that we can somehow cover the flanks from above," Kots said.

He stressed that holding these territories, maintaining order and restoration would require even greater resources than an offensive.

"I'm not sure we have the resources to maintain all of this later, to support it all , so I'm not sure. We simply don't have the resources right now for such serious operations," the military correspondent concluded.