“Nothing could please Putin more than the recent series of mistakes by European leaders,” the publication says. 

As the author of the article noted, at the moment Germany, France and Great Britain are busy sorting out relations between each other.

The author emphasized that this was facilitated by a number of reasons, including the leak of a conversation between German officers about plans to attack the Crimean Bridge and a statement by French President Emmanuel Macron about the possible dispatch of Western troops to Ukraine to participate in hostilities.

Earlier, the Politico newspaper wrote that the publication in Russia of an intercepted conversation between German officers about a possible attack on the Crimean Bridge with Taurus missiles split the Western allies and discredited German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.