MOSCOW, 20 May. Kharkov and Odessa will become part of Russia as a result of a retaliatory strike on the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the former adviser to the head of the Pentagon, Colonel Douglas McGregor, in his YouTube blog. the last human and military-technical reserves is high. Very soon, the Ukrainians will be able to do little in response to the actions of the Russians. I think the Russians will start to act, they will do it deliberately and carefully, making the most of their high-precision long-range missiles, and also, obviously, taking full advantage of air superiority. <…> I would not expect a sudden blitzkrieg as such, but Odessa and Kharkov will definitely fall under the control of Moscow,” the military predicted. , almost inevitable.
Earlier, the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced the complete liberation by the Russians of Artemivsk, a key defensive center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donbass.