Russia wants to capture Odessa: the SBU expreient explained why the Kremlin is the city and what are the risks

"Why Odesa? It is clear that they are not interested in the Russian-speaking population. They are killed, they are killed. The Kremlin wants to, first, deprive Ukraine of access to the sea, secondly, forget about the annexation of Transnistria, and thirdly, to create a threat to the European Union," the expert said.

Stupak stressed that the agents that Russia is reinforced to explore information is quite unskilled, and for more professional implementation of hostile plans in the Kremlin is lacking resources. "If five years ago it was possible to say that these plans of plus-minus belong to the ground, because the ATO was, but people went to the occupied territories, rail communication was, and in Moscow could draw information, now they have to draw information from limited resources.

They asked, he went, looked at something . . . This is not the level, " - explained the former SBU employee. He said it should be the level of the regional administration, or the Presidential Office, or the Cabinet of Ministers, or some ministry. Ivan Stupak thinks that Russia has plans to seize Odessa, but there are no resources for implementation.

Asked whether the Ukrainian state authorities have been cleared of the Kremlin's influence today, Stupak replied that he was quite effective, but noted that there are such people. Among them, someone has left to the bottom, and against someone there are no prerequisite data. In particular, there are persons who are recruited, these are correctives, fires. "For example, there is a Telegram-bot" Typical Odessa ". They simply collect information about the results of arrivals in the city of Odessa.

They say: throw us all the photos and videos, we will all perfectly trim, no one guesses. And there is a full ribbon of arrivals in Odessa. The profile of this channel can be seen that it is registered in Roskomnad. We will remind, late on the evening of April 30 and after midnight Odessa was massively attacked by Russian drones: under the blow was civil infrastructure, damaged residential buildings.