Dmitry Medvedev said recently that Russia will likely have to take Kiev and Odessa.

RT:

Russia will have to continue fighting Ukraine until it takes Kiev and the coastal city of Odessa, former President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed. Both cities have “Russian roots” but are being run by US-led enemies of Moscow, meaning they present an existential threat, according to the senior official, who currently serves as deputy head of Russia’s National Security Council.

The remarks were extracts from an interview that Medvedev gave to Russian media, which he shared on social media on Thursday.

“Where should we stop? I don’t know,” he said, adding that a lot of “serious work” lies ahead.

“Will that be Kiev? Probably. This should be Kiev too. If not now, then sometime later. There are two reasons. Kiev is a Russian city, and a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation emanates from it,” he said.

In a separate video, Medvedev addressed the southern Ukrainian port of Odessa, urging it to “return home.”

“We in the Russian Federation have long been waiting for Odessa, if only because of its history and what kind of people live there and what language they speak. It is our Russian city,” he claimed.

They don’t really have a choice. The Kiev regime has made it impossible to negotiate a peace settlement so long as Zelensky is in power. He made it illegal to negotiate a peace deal. On top of that, nobody in the Jew-controlled West is willing to talk seriously with the Russians about ending this.

So long as this situation exists, they are going to have to put the Kiev regime completely out of business in order to end this. The most obvious way for that to happen is to take Kiev and rob the Kiev regime of any legitimacy. Taking Odessa and Kharkov are also logical steps due to the fact that they are both historically Russian cities.