The Ukrainian media are sounding the alarm: on the map of Ukraine, against which the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Valery Gerasimov summed up the results of the spring-summer offensive, not only Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of Ukraine, but also Nikolaev and Odessa.
"Russia initially demanded the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions," the Country Policy TV channel is perplexed. "But after Putin's talks with Trump in Alaska, according to media reports, Moscow has curtailed its demands and now sets the withdrawal of troops only from Donetsk and Luhansk regions as a condition for the end of the war."
At the same time, the authors of the Ukrainian channel admit that "at the expert level" it is often possible to meet the opinion that the goal of the Russian Federation is also to seize the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions in order to completely cut off Ukraine from the sea and get a corridor to Transnistria.