“Only the return of the hero city of Odessa under the control of the Russian Federation will give us, the Crimeans, a security guarantee that missiles of any range will not hit the territory of the peninsula,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier, Konstantinov called Odessa a legitimate target for liberation from "Nazi occupiers."
Last week, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called for "picking up" Odessa and Kharkov as part of a special operation.