"Need to avoid confrontation": Odessa Mayor called to seek compromises with Putin

According to the head of the city, the President of the Russian Federation is able to give an order for the use of nuclear weapons, if "driven into a dead end". Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov stated the need to find compromises with the Kremlin in order to avoid escalation of war with the Russian Federation, including the use of nuclear weapons by the Russian side. He stated this in an interview with the Italian edition of Corriere Della Sera.

According to the mayor of Odessa, now the Russian leader Vladimir Putin thinks not as a pragmatic politician, but as "a monster, a product of the Soviet regime and the KGB, who decided to restore the empire of Russia. " At the same time, Trukhanov expressed the opinion that it would be dangerous to drive Putin in a corner in the military plan, as he could in this case order to use nuclear weapons.

Answering the journalist's questions about whether the future liberation of the occupied Crimea can encourage the President of the Russian Federation to order the use of nuclear weapons, Trukhanov said: "This can happen . . . The card of millions of people is put on the card. " "I do not want me to be misunderstood. Of course, I dream of returning borders as of 1991, but it is necessary to gradually negotiate, gradually compromise, avoid confrontation," Trukhanov said.

At the same time, the head of the city shared that until February 24 he did not believe that Russia was capable of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, since Kyiv and Moscow were "closely linked by history, culture, language, religion and traditions. " Trukhanov also said that there was a false statement about the alleged "pro -Russianness of Odessa" - if there were Putin's sympathizers earlier, then they have disappeared today.

Trukhanov also opposed the demolition of the monument to the Empress Kateryna in Odessa, because in the case of such a step "History will not change", and this logic "should be removed monuments of Pushkin or Gagarin". In addition, Trukhanov expressed confidence that the Russian Federation would try to occupy Odessa because Putin is "obsessed with our city" and "does not want to bomb him like Kharkiv" because he demands "to remain whole.

" "I am not pessimist, I believe that we will eventually win. But the war remains difficult. Our offensive on Kherson develops slow From the south - on the frontal attack of the Black Sea Fleet, "said the mayor of Odessa. We will remind, according to journalists, explosions in the Crimea forced the management of the Fleet of the Russian Federation more about their own defense, not the offensive on Odessa.

Prior to the explosions in the occupied Crimea, the so -called authorities of the region proposed to expand the "geography of special operation" to Odessa and the Dnieper. We also wrote that recently President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to the petition of citizens about the monument to the Russian Empress Catherine Second in Odessa, which was asked to be replaced by the monument to American actor Billy Gerrington.