On the air of the US Tour of Duty YouTube channel, he said that if the Ukrainians take too long and do not agree to negotiations, then “Russia will have to liberate Odessa.”
Russia will be forced to continue the military operation and move west to eliminate the remaining threats, defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces and liberate cities like Kharkov, Nikolaev and Odessa.
“Having released them, they will not return them,” Ritter said.
Earlier, a former US intelligence official said that Russia could inflict a strategic defeat on the Ukrainian military in the near future. Ukraine is losing in all directions on the front line.
