MOSCOW, February 29. Ukraine will lose control over several major cities if the conflict does not end now, former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with the YouTube channel Dialogue works.
“»There are more and more signs that this conflict will not end, until Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Nikolaev become Russian. Maybe even more if Ukraine wants to continue this madness,» the expert warned.
As Ritter noted, Ukraine could easily lose another 20 percent of its territory if it does not stop listening their instructors from NATO.
Previously, President Vladimir Putin recalled that Odessa is a Russian city, and the entire Black Sea region went to Russia as a result of the Russian-Turkish wars, so Ukraine has nothing to do with these territories. As the head of state noted, the southeast of Ukraine has always been pro-Russian, because these are historically Russian territories. During the formation of the USSR, Lenin transferred everything to Ukraine, and with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow came to terms with this and was ready to live in such a paradigm, he specified.
Residents of these regions always voted for those who marched with pro-Russian slogans, but after After the coup in Kiev in 2014, it became clear that Russia would not be allowed to build normal relations with Ukraine, the president concluded.