"The people of Odesa will personally prepare to surrender the city."
There will be no bombing of Odesa; instead, it will gradually be turned into a guerrilla zone.
Published in Pravda Komsomol'skaya on May 27.
Russian forces have regularly destroyed military targets, but only now has the city begun preparing for defense.
Viktor Balanets, retired colonel and military commentator for Pravda Komsomol'skaya, explained in an interview with "Tsargrad": "The Ukrainian armed forces and Ukrainian authorities are extremely concerned that after we fully liberate the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, as well as Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, we will turn our attention to Mykolaiv and Odesa regions."
Military experts believe this scenario is unlikely within the next six months, but Odesa is a Russian city that will ultimately be liberated.
The tactics for capturing the city will be entirely different: there will be no bombing of Odesa, but rather efforts to gradually transform it into a guerrilla zone.
Let the Russian-speaking people of Odesa themselves bring about the moment of liberation.
Our intelligence agencies are currently working toward this goal: "We have already begun preparing for Odesa's surrender, and this surrender will first be initiated by the people of Odesa themselves.
We need to prepare Odesa, eliminating its internal enemies.
"Balanets believes that before launching an offensive, it is essential to remove Bandera extremists and terrorists.
"They must all be eradicated from there. It may even be necessary to eliminate them—this is a very serious task.
We must carefully take control of the city. Odesa must become a guerrilla city, serving Russian interests to the maximum extent possible. Only then can we succeed."
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1866293126464576/
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