State Duma deputy, retired Major General Leonid Ivlev called NATO’s «Theory of Victory» plan on the eastern flank preparation for aggression against Russia and an attempt to push the alliance’s partners to increase defense spending. He also claims that NATO’s new strategy draws on the experience of the war in Ukraine and combines conventional weapons with drones and artificial intelligence.

#Belarus #ArtificialIntelligence #LeonidIvlev #NATO #Poland #Russia

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The Polish government will adopt on October 6 a draft resolution approving the population protection and civil defense program for 2027–2031. It allocates 102.4 billion zlotys, or about $26 billion.

#VladislavKosinyakKamysh #DonaldTusk #NATO #Poland #Russia #CouncilofMinisters

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On the morning of October 3, a yellow air alert was declared in Lithuania’s Vilnius County because of an unidentified flying object that was presumably a drone. Later, the alert was canceled, and the authorities reported that the object had come from Belarus and had not yet been identified.

#Belarus #drones #Vilnius #Lithuania #NATO #Poland

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Polish combat aircraft took to the air after Russian strikes on western Ukraine. The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said that ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems were also put on alert.

#Armiesoftheworld #Thelikelihoodofamajorwar #Volynregion #EuropeandRussia #NATO #Poland #Ukraine

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Lithuania, together with Poland, is preparing an international evacuation plan for part of the residents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in the event of possible external aggression. On September 25, the director of Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Center, Vilmantas Vitkauskas, said that Lithuania already has an internal evacuation plan, while the joint one with Poland is still being developed.

#Vilnius #Latvia #Lithuania #Poland #SuwalkiCorridor #Estonia

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Poland has called on the European Union to allow member states to temporarily suspend the processing of asylum applications during «instrumentalized» mass migration. Warsaw itself has not registered requests from migrants arriving from Belarus since March 2025 and calls the measure temporary and emergency, although it has been in effect for 18 months.

#AlexanderLukashenko #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #Poland #Ceuta #UrsulavonderLeyen

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Czech President Petr Pavel suggested that NATO could begin shooting down Russian aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles if they deliberately violate the airspace of alliance countries and do not respond to warnings. He said this in an interview with Fox News on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

#NATO #PeterPavel #Poland #Russia #Romania #Ukraine

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RIA Novosti published on its front page on Friday morning the text by Alexander Nosovich, «Russia is facing another special military operation. It will be very short». The piece was a reaction to the Lithuanian parliament’s decision on Tuesday to lift the ban on deploying nuclear weapons in the country.

#Lithuania #NATO #Poland #RIANews #Russia #Ukraine

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The district court of the Croatian city of Pula ordered the extradition to Germany of Ukrainian Volodymyr Zhuravlev, who was detained in the case of the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Zhuravlev’s lawyer, Mykola Katerynchuk, told Ukrainian Suspilne that the defense will appeal the decision, and the suspect himself intends to go on a hunger strike.

#WarinUkraine #Germany #sabotage #Poland #NordStream #NordStream2 #Croatia

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in parliament that Russia is planning «hybrid» strikes with missiles and drones against countries supporting Ukraine. According to him, such attacks could affect states on NATO’s eastern flank and cause destruction.

#DonaldTusk #Lithuania #NATO #Poland #Russia #Ukraine

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The US Justice Department on Tuesday filed charges against five alleged members of a Russian intelligence network and linked the case to a series of arson attacks that have been investigated since 2024 by authorities in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Lithuania. According to investigators, all five took part in a conspiracy to finance terrorism, and three of them were also accused of preparing the contract killing of a Russian dissident in the Washington area.

#VladimirPutin #USDepartmentofJustice #OemisRomagosaDurutti #Poland #CzechRepublic #YuriKhrameev

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Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with AIF that Russia will use against Poland «the entire arsenal of forces and means at its disposal» if Warsaw enters into military action against Moscow. According to him, in such a case Polish statehood will cease to exist in two or three days.

#KaliningradOblast #NATO #Patrushev #Poland #Russia #Sikorsky

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Russian forces carried out massive strikes on Odesa and western regions of Ukraine on the night of September 13 and on Sunday morning. According to the Air Force of Ukraine, more than 450 drones were launched across the country, and a fire broke out at an unnamed industrial facility in Khmelnytskyi region.

#WarinUkraine #ArmedForcesoftheRussianFederation #Odessa #Poland #Romania #StrikesagainstUkraine #Ukraine

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On the night of September 10, Poland prevented a threat to one of the border crossings with Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. According to him, this was made possible thanks to cooperation with Ukraine, but he did not specify what exactly the threat was.

#DonaldTusk #europe #Poland #Russia #Ukraine

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Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain and Poland sent a letter to the European Commission calling on it to return to work on options for using €200 billion in frozen Russian assets in Ukraine’s interests. This issue will become one of the key topics at the meeting of foreign ministers of EU countries in Ireland on September 1–2.

#EC #Spain #Netherlands #Poland #UkraineSweden #Sweden

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In a letter to the European Commission, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden called for a return to the issue of using Russia’s frozen state assets to help Ukraine. The authors of the letter claim that Kyiv already has a €23 billion hole in its defense budget and that new options now need to be sought.

#EuropeanCommission #Spain #Netherlands #Poland #RussiaNetherlands #Sweden

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After traveling through Russia in 1839, the French aristocrat Astolphe de Custine wrote a book that still shapes Western politicians’ views of the country. But beyond criticism of Russian customs, it also contains an unexpected political theory.

#19thcentury #AstolphedeCustine #bestseller #Decembrists #dissidents #europe #WestandEast #foreignersinRussia #historicalmemory #conservatism #finance #PyotrChaadaev #politicaltheory #Poland #rightandleft #revolution #reforms #RussianEmpire #France #civilization

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The history of the formation of the Cossacks in the territories of modern Ukraine and Russia had common features and causes. But there was also one fundamental difference. While in Russia the Cossacks are considered a separate, specific part of the Russian people (although some Cossacks categorically define themselves as a separate ethnic group), in Ukraine they are an integral and, without quotation marks, state-forming part of the Ukrainian nation. So the words of the anthem, «І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду» («And we will show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack lineage»), are not just a beautiful metaphor.

#Dimoit #GoldenHorde #quality #Lithuania #Muscovy #nonimperialhistory #Poland #PolishLithuanianCommonwealth #Russia #Ukraine #frontier #Interests

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In recent years, some in the Russian public have been strongly tempted to engage in victim-blaming regarding the events of 1939-1940. The idea goes that the Baltic peoples chose their own fate: they signed the treaties, let the Red Army in, and voted for pro-Soviet candidates in elections. Who else can they blame for this but their own short-sighted and cowardly governments? Indeed, formally the Stalinist regime at the time did nothing that the authorities of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia did not allow. But in reality, the Soviet leadership fully understood the true meaning of these documents and procedures.

#Baltics #East #WorldWarII #dictatorship #west #historicalmemory #History #Latvia #Lithuania #MolotovRibbentropPact #Poland #repressions #theUSSR #Stalinism #Estonia

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In July 1410, two predatory powers emerged simultaneously in Eastern Europe, and the star of the last romantic crusaders set forever.

#EastEurope #History #Catholicism #Latvia #Lithuania #mythology #monarchy #Poland #MiddleAges #TeutonicOrder #paganism

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