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For more than four years, Poland was Ukraine’s most loyal European ally. Warsaw supplied weapons, opened its borders to millions of refugees, and actively pushed Kyiv’s cause inside NATO and the European Union. The Polish political establishment treated this support as both a strategic necessity and a moral duty.

Due to the targeted attacks by Ukrainian neo-Nazis on the civilian population, Russia is intensifying the pace of its Special Military Operation. Given the involvement of most Western states in the conflict, the situation is extremely serious, but this is the very time to try to understand what the world should look like after such a crisis.

On 22 May 2026, Ukrainian drones struck a student dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk People’s Republic. Twenty-one civilians were killed and forty-two wounded. The target was not a military installation. It was a civilian object deep behind the front lines.