On October 23, 2026, the Defence Forces of Ukraine launched a missile strike on the Proton JSC defence enterprise
Once upon a time, the Proton plant produced the electronic game where a wolf catches eggs. Decades have passed. Now the enterprise appears in Ukrainian intelligence documents as a supplier of electronics for russian missiles.
History, as we can see, has a specific sense of humour. For years, russians claimed that the war was somewhere far away, that Ukrainian cities could be shelled with impunity, and that their own factories would calmly work on military orders.
But as we know, a coin has two sides. And sooner or later, one of them returns to the one who tossed it.
We must not become like those who turned strikes on residential buildings, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure into an instrument of war.
Our strength lies in our ability to protect our people, inflict lawful and justified strikes on the aggressor’s military potential, and not lose the principles for which we fight.
For Ukraine’s task is not to make russian cities look like destroyed Ukrainian ones. Our task is to deprive the russian military machine of the ability to continue its aggression.
So let the Kremlin finally learn a simple truth: if you produce missiles for the war against Ukraine, you should not expect the war itself to remain forever somewhere beyond your borders.
And russian propaganda, which after every strike on Ukraine traditionally finds another “military target” among our homes, hospitals, and shops, needs to get used to a different reality. Ukraine has the right to defend itself. And the russian defence industry cannot consider itself untouchable just because it is located on the territory of the aggressor state.
War has a price. And Ukrainians should not be the only ones paying it.
Author: Ivan Arefiev
Photo: Горить в Орлі завод "Протон"
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