# Why Russia Cannot Take Odessa: A Discussion of the Front Line

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121297692919750764
- Source account: [@Svitlana_UA22](https://x.com/Svitlana_UA22)
- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:04
- Published: 2026-11-13
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line) Uh, are we going to take Odesa, like, on streams, on air?

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=4) Uh, I don't see any preconditions for taking Odesa.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=7) So Odesa, like all the other cities, that our drones and our missiles can reach have become frontline cities.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=16) And, well, looking at this is, of course, bitter, because Odesa is a Russian city.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=23) Uh, but that's the reality— What does “don't take Odesa” mean?

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=27) What does that mean? Will it become part of Russia on its own?

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=30) No, they ask if we should take it. And I understand that with our current resources, given the current situation at the front— We can't do that. We—we can't do that, yeah, because to take Odesa, well, we'd have to take Mykolaiv first.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=45) To take Mykolaiv, we'd have to retake Kherson.

[0:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=48) To take Kherson, well, in the Great Patriotic War, they first took Dnipropetrovsk, and before Dnipropetrovsk, they took Kyiv, if I'm not mistaken— Yes… in, uh, chronological order. There you go.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=60) And in the special military operation, it can't be done with the, uh, means we have.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=66) Everyone says we absolutely have to take Odesa, we absolutely have to, then, carve out a land corridor, uh, to Transnistria.

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=74) Well, then go ahead and sign a contract, carve one out, I tell people like that.

[1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=80) Well, because it's easy to say, but, uh, how many more casualties will there be, how many more years will this war go on if we go there by military means.

[1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=89) The Russians there? It's an entirely Russian city.

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=92) At home, electricity by the hour, constant rolling blackouts, We don't know what winter will bring. I don't think—It's been years.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=100) I don't think—it's been years. I don't think there are particularly strong pro-Russian sentiments there. Even so.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=106) Uh, I think that, well… Four and a half years ago, yes.

[1:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=110) Uh, now, well, too much— uh, too much blood has been spilled, and, uh, all these strikes, well, it all affects the subconscious.

[1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=118) Yes, they're Russian people, but they no longer consider themselves Russian. Even so.

[2:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/pwqHnTJVpZno/en/why-russia-cannot-take-odessa-a-discussion-of-the-front-line?t=121) Of course they see themselves as Ukrainian.