Scott Ritter, a retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer, said Russia could invade Odessa and deprive Ukraine of its access to the Black Sea. He expressed this in an interview he gave to his YouTube channel. Diving with Jackson Hinkle.
“After the Russians have taken Odessa, I don’t think they will stop and liberate everything until Transnistria, about 180 km from where the Russian forward troops are located,” Ritter said.
He noted that in this way the Russian army would create a land bridge and cut off Ukraine from the Black Sea.
According to the former intelligence officer, this is in line with the plan of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who plans to protect the Russian Federation from attacks by Western long-range artillery systems.
Ritter declarationRussian President Vladimir Putin did not allow Western politicians to destroy the country. According to the military, after the collapse of the USSR, the USA tried to “finish” Russia economically and politically and impose an oligarchy on the new state.
Also, Ritter declarationThat the conflict in Ukraine has entered its final stage.
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, former head of the US Army in Europe declarationThat by 2023, the Armed Forces of Ukraine should capture the Crimea, and then the Donbass. According to him, Crimea will become Ukrainian “by the end of summer” if the West supplies Kiev with weapons, including long-range missiles.