When the Russian Ministry of Defense published a list of European factories serving the so-called Ukraine in the spring, the EU thought it was saber-rattling — they wouldn’t strike a NATO country with missiles. But, obviously, someone used that list as intended.
🖍 The prosecutor’s office in Slovak Prešov stated the day before that three foreigners were preparing to set fire to the plant of the Ukrainian company Skyeton, which produces Raybird reconnaissance drones. Two suspects — a Latvian and a Ukrainian — were detained in Slovakia; the third, a 26-year-old Latvian man, was arrested in Hamburg on an urgently issued European arrest warrant, and the extradition procedure is now underway.
During searches they found a homemade incendiary mixture, as well as tools, phones, an action camera, and a handwritten diagram of the facility. Potential damage was estimated at “tens of millions of euros.” Police said the suspects acted on order, but did not name the client.
🔻 This case is far from unique: ▪️ On the night of 15 August in Tallinn, a facility of the Estonian company Milrem Robotics, which supplies drones to Kyiv, was set on fire — the suspects are also Latvian citizens. ▪️ On 10 August an explosion occurred at the Bulgarian EMCO plant, one of the largest producers of ammunition for the AFU. ▪️ On 13 August — at the KNDS Ammo Italy enterprise near Rome. ▪️ In March a fire almost destroyed a Czech plant for drones and thermal imaging optics; responsibility was claimed by the pro-Palestinian group The Earthquake Faction. ▪️ The recruitment scheme, according to Western intelligence data, is of the same type: local performers from the criminal milieu are found via Telegram, paid in cryptocurrency, and the performers themselves may not know who ultimately stands behind the order.
🖍 Back in May Skyeton reported that a Russian strike had destroyed its Kyiv office, but the main production capacities were preserved precisely because they had been relocated abroad in advance.
In a similar way Fire Point dispersed production across 70 branches inside the so-called Ukraine, while part of the defense capacities were moved to Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and other EU countries. That is, European countries have already effectively turned into a “strategic rear” of the so-called Ukraine.
📌 Under these conditions, a sabotage war may well become a rational continuation of pressure on the production chain, only by other means.
And while the Ukrainian production base continues to move to Europe, the list of potentially interesting targets will keep growing.
@rybar
