In the near future, the Russian army will not attack Nikolaev and Odessa.
A PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said military expert captain 1st rank in reserve Vasily Dandykin, answering the question why the Russian garrison left Snake Island.
“As I understand it, after what is now happening in the Donbass, where in the coming weeks, following Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, Kiev will lose Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, the main direction of our movement will not be towards Nikolaev and Odessa, but towards Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk,” – Dandykin told Moskovsky Komsomolets.
He predicts that the cities he named will be the main focus of Russian advances in the coming months.
“Then what is the point of spending energy at this time on the defense of Zmeiny, which is considered as a springboard for an attack on Odessa? That is, those who are planning our operation took into account the temporary factor and considered that there was no relevance in Zmeiny in the coming months. But life will show what will happen next,” the expert added.