Poland

Poland faces escalating hybrid threats, including major Russia-linked cyberattacks on its power grid and intensified sabotage risks. Warsaw has closed multiple crossings with Belarus and Kaliningrad amid rising tensions while remaining a key supporter of Ukraine and a frontline NATO state.

Russia fires Oreshnik missile at Lviv in calculated escalation test

Moscow's second-ever deployment of advanced IRBM near NATO border tests Western resolve through strategic signaling

By Viktor Petersen

/ 9 Jan 2026

Russia fires Oreshnik missile at Lviv in calculated escalation test

Diplomacy by other means: Russia's Kyiv barrage is the negotiation

Moscow's massive air assault isn't undermining the Trump-Zelenskyy talks—it's setting their terms with missiles and drones

By Viktor Petersen

/ 27 Dec 2025

Diplomacy by other means: Russia's Kyiv barrage is the negotiation

Ukraine quits Siversk as Russia narrows the buffer to Donbas fortress belt

Tactical withdrawal preserves combat power but shifts negotiating optics as Moscow inches toward Sloviansk–Kramatorsk stronghold

By Elena Kowalski

/ 24 Dec 2025

Ukraine quits Siversk as Russia narrows the buffer to Donbas fortress belt

Poland scrambles jets as Russia hammers Ukraine's west near the border

Preventive air policing and heightened air defenses underscore NATO's thin margin for error as winter grid strikes intensify amid Miami peace talks

By Elena Kowalski

/ 23 Dec 2025

Poland scrambles jets as Russia hammers Ukraine's west near the border

Poland restarts anti-personnel mine production after Cold War hiatus

Warsaw's formal withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention unlocks large-scale manufacture for eastern border fortifications and potential Ukraine exports

By Elena Kowalski

/ 17 Dec 2025

Poland restarts anti-personnel mine production after Cold War hiatus

Netherlands takes over Patriot shield at Rzeszów as Germany ends mission

Scheduled allied rotation preserves air defence at NATO's principal logistics hub for Ukraine amid persistent drone threat

By Elena Kowalski

/ 16 Dec 2025

Netherlands takes over Patriot shield at Rzeszów as Germany ends mission

Kremlin rejects Rutte's war warning as 'irresponsible'

Moscow's rebuke reveals widening gulf between NATO's five-year readiness clock and Russia's denial of hostile intent

By Elena Kowalski

/ 14 Dec 2025

Kremlin rejects Rutte's war warning as 'irresponsible'

Prisoners for potash: Washington tests Belarus engagement as EU holds the line

The deal and its immediate contours

By Elena Kowalski

/ 13 Dec 2025

Prisoners for potash: Washington tests Belarus engagement as EU holds the line

The 2027 test: Washington wants Europe to carry NATO's conventional load

Pentagon message accelerates burden-sharing into burden-shifting, but Europe's timelines and industrial constraints suggest the clock runs past the deadline

By Elena Kowalski

/ 5 Dec 2025

The 2027 test: Washington wants Europe to carry NATO's conventional load

NATO's gray-zone pivot: SACEUR signals a more proactive response to hybrid attacks

The pattern NATO is confronting

By Elena Kowalski

/ 5 Dec 2025

NATO's gray-zone pivot: SACEUR signals a more proactive response to hybrid attacks

Nord Stream suspect arrives in Germany as EU extradition rules fracture

Fragmented judicial cooperation complicates accountability for Europe's most damaging act of peacetime sabotage

By Elena Kowalski

/ 28 Nov 2025

Nord Stream suspect arrives in Germany as EU extradition rules fracture

A shadow over Europe's skies: The drone incursion surge exposing airspace vulnerabilities (🎧)

From Copenhagen to Brussels, unauthorized flights over airports and military bases are forcing governments to confront a hybrid threat their defenses were never designed to counter

By Elena Kowalski

/ 23 Nov 2025

A shadow over Europe's skies: The drone incursion surge exposing airspace vulnerabilities (🎧)