https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-KH0vls1zU
oland is emerging as a formidable military power in Europe, causing concerns for Russia. In this video, we dive into the evolving balance of power in Eastern

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/nato-countries-article-5-explained-war-russia-ukraine/
On March 13, Russia attacked Yavoriv, a military training site in western Ukraine, just a dozen miles from the Polish border. Could NATO's Article 5 require the United States, as the key member

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/23/poland-ukraine-russia-crisis-nato-strategic-role-military-diplomacy-war/
Even before the current crisis, Poland, which joined NATO in 1999, had long been at odds with Russia. After occupying Poland for 123 years prior to World War I, Russia invaded Poland again during

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/16/europe/poland-missile-nato-analysis-intl/index.html
Blast in Poland shows how easily Russia's war could tip into wider conflict with NATO. Link Copied! Polish army soldiers unload equipment from their trucks, near the place where a missile struck

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230211-we-will-be-in-danger-if-russia-wins-security-concerns-drive-poland-s-support-for-ukraine
If Poland's support for Ukraine has been seemingly limitless, it comes from a deeply rooted belief that if Russia is not defeated, Poland itself will become a target. Security concerns have led

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/17/1093240533/poland-readies-its-defense-as-russia-moves-east
Poland readies its defense as Russia moves east As the war in Ukraine continues, Poles are joining their nation's military and packing shooting ranges in case they need to defend Poland from

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60746437
Over the weekend, Russia bombed a Ukrainian military base in Yavoriv, just 16 km (10 miles) from the Polish border. Poland warned the West for years that Russia planned to redress the balance of

https://theconversation.com/poland-dreams-of-building-europes-largest-army-against-backdrop-of-russias-war-against-ukraine-192580
Polish and US troops take part in the so-called Defender-Europe 20 joint military exercise at Drawsko Pomorskie training grounds in Poland on June 17, 2020. AFP/Janek Skarzynski. These

https://www.vox.com/22989379/russia-ukraine-war-putin-zelenskyy-us-nato-explainer-questions
In a televised speech announcing Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the invasion was designed to stop a "genocide

https://www.ft.com/content/ae0c7ffe-d6d4-48f9-8777-f9c4bb16e899
The UK has proposed sending tanks to Poland to allow Warsaw to pass its own tanks to Ukraine, Boris Johnson said, as he became the first western leader to concede Vladimir Putin could win the war

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-would-lose-in-a-war-with-nato-polish-fm-warns/
April 25, 2024 12:00 pm CET. By Claudia Chiappa and Joshua Posaner. A war between Vladimir Putin's Russia and NATO would end with Moscow's "inevitable defeat," Poland's Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said Thursday. "It is not we, the West, who should fear a clash with Putin, but the other way around," Sikorski said during a speech

https://apnews.com/article/poland-army-training-war-russia-ukraine-b2392d257cbed915273c75a2536a5118
The military introduced the program in a search for recruits as Poland expands its 198,000-member army in the face of renewed Russian aggression in the region, including neighboring Ukraine. Volunteers in Poland's army learn to apply camouflage face paint during basic training in Nowogrod, Poland, on Thursday June 20, 2024.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-baltics-call-eu-defence-line-border-with-russia-belarus-2024-06-26/
Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia called on Wednesday for the European Union to build a defence line along the bloc's border with Russia and Belarus to protect the EU from military threats and

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60560769
Poland has sent ammunition across the border, the US has already sent in some 90 tonnes of military assistance, Sweden is breaking with its tradition of not sending weapons to countries engaged in

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/strategy-west-needs-beat-russia/626962/
Poland is the key state: Its determination to confront Russia is unlimited, its military is competent and accustomed to service alongside the United States, and its willingness to spend on its own

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59582146
Getty Images. A senior Western intelligence official has warned that if Russia decides to invade Ukraine, a conflict could spill over further into Europe. Speaking to journalists, including the

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085544653/polands-history-with-russia-has-inspired-some-poles-to-join-the-fight-in-ukraine
KAKISSIS: Poland has a traumatic history with Russia. The Soviet Union, an ally of Nazi Germany in 1940, invaded Poland. The Soviets imprisoned and murdered the country's entire officer corps and

https://www.newsweek.com/poland-lithuania-latvia-russia-fence-1918146
Poland and the Baltic states have called on the European Union to build a 700-kilometer (430-mile) wall along their borders with Russia and Belarus, with a map showing the area such a construction

https://www.state.gov/russias-strategic-failure-and-ukraines-secure-future/
Russia's invasion has also led the European Union to do more - and more together with the United States and with NATO - than ever before. The EU and its member-states have provided over $75 billion in military, economic, humanitarian support to Ukraine. That includes $18 billion in security assistance, from air defense systems to Leopard

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/ukraine-has-held-russias-invasion-so-far-heres-how
Last updated February 17, 2023 2:27 pm (EST) Ukraine has withstood and repelled the mighty Russian military through Western support, Russian blundering, and its own resourcefulness. However, the

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-and-baltics-demand-defence-line-against-russia-and-belarus/ar-BB1p1o9s
Poland and the Baltic states - which all have borders with Russia - have already begun fortifying their eastern borders. Warsaw has earmarked more than 2.3 billion euros ($2.5 billion) for defence

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/feb/25/russia-ukraine-war-live-china-role-as-peacemaker-just-not-rational-says-biden?page=with:block-63fa47668f08ea98983ac5cd
Russian oil accounts for about 10% of Polish supply after Warsaw cut imports after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year. Joe Biden has also ruled out "for now" sending American advanced

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2510-1.html
But as of December 2022, such an outcome is improbable because Russia's military appears incapable of making significant territorial advances. Conversely, if Ukraine were to rout the Russian military and retake all of its territory, including Crimea, the risks of nuclear use or a Russia-NATO war would spike. That outcome seems equally

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/how-russian-elites-made-peace-war
If Russia launches a second campaign to capture the Ukrainian capital, the military would likely begin its offensive in Belarus, just as it did in the winter of 2022. It would probably involve, as it did then, Russian troops driving through the radioactive wasteland surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/russia-ukraine-invasion-military-predictions/629418/
The resilience of Ukrainian resistance is embarrassing for a Western think-tank and military community that had confidently predicted that the Russians would conquer Ukraine in a matter of days

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/25/poland-sees-surge-in-volunteers-for-military-training-as-russian-threat-looms
The military introduced the scheme in search of recruits as Poland expanded its 198,000-member army in the face of Russian aggression in neighbouring Ukraine — which has raised fears Vladimir

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-much-europe-could-russia-conquer-one-wargame-has-answer-191081
Let's be utterly clear on this point; from the creation of NATO until the 1970s, Western military planners expected the Warsaw Pact to easily win a conventional war in Europe.

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-russia-putin-north-korea-soldiers-12541713
Vadym Filashkin, head of the regional military administration, said Russian forces struck the centre of Kurakhove city, killing a woman and a 40-year-old man. Two injured people were taken to

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1831186/russia-military-conquer-poland-weapons-war
Moscow has seen the decline of the country's military standing during the war in Ukraine posing a question of whether Russia would be able to defeat Poland in a conventional war, according to the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Russian_War_%281605%E2%80%931618%29
Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618) Part of the Time of Troubles and the Russo-Polish Wars: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and western Tsardom of Russia during the Polish-Russian War. The map displays Poland (cream), Lithuania (dark red), Russia (dark green), and Polish territorial gains or areas temporarily controlled by Poland (pink). Positions of military regiments and important