As we know, the war between Ukraine and Russia is still going on its 23rd day. Up till now, thousands of lives have been lost in this war. Many people have lost their families and loved ones. Some are still hiding behind closed doors, far from missiles and bombs, to save their lives.
In between this chaos, there is news that Poland might be the next target for Russia after Ukraine puts its white flag on for a long time. Ukraine has been a shield between Russia, Belarus, and Poland.
With Ukraine becoming the playhouse of Russia’s Nato conflict, the war could be shifted towards Poland, a Nato member.
Before Russia was founded on February 24, Ukraine was a shield between Russia and the US-dominated western military alliance NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), but her time is changing fast now.
I was backed up externally by western countries, but it’s not a NATO member, so there would be no military involvement from the west. Now Poland, a Nato member, will be capturing the unenviable space of being right between western Europe and Russia.
Unless and until Russia completely withdraws from Ukraine and has no say in how its servient-era constituencies are run. Both possibilities are improbable.
More than 2 million of the total 3.3 million refugees have entered Poland to save their lives from Russia’s attack on their country. Their eyes and minds are still in fear that they are going to die in their country, and there is no one to help them out from Russia’s destruction and brutality.
Nato has grown in eastern European countries by making many former slaves members of the group. Another story coming out of Poland is that 45 Russian diplomats are suspected of being spies in their country. The tension between Russia and Poland is getting high.
Poland said that it has thrown out 45 Russian diplomats for spying on their country and forwarding sensitive political and military information to another country.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina told a news conference, “In total, 45 people with varying diplomatic status… were ordered to leave the territory of the Republic of Poland within 5 days,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina said.
One person had been given 48 hours to leave, he added. Tensions between Poland and Russia have been running high since Moscow began its invasion of Ukraine last month.
“Russia is our neighbor. It will not disappear from the map of Europe, but the aggression towards Ukraine proves that it is an unfriendly state, and even hostile to Poland,” said Jasina. Of those 45 diplomats, half of them work at the embassy.
What did Russia say about this?Russia confirmed the expulsions but dismissed Polish accusations as baseless. “There are no grounds for these kinds of accusations,” said Sergey Andreyev, Russia’s ambassador to Poland.
Nevertheless, bilateral diplomatic relations remained in place, he added. “The embassies remain, the ambassadors remain.” The Russian ambassador said that Moscow also has the right to take further steps, without going into detail about what those might be.
The Polish government’s move comes after a request by special security services that the diplomats be removed. The decision follows similar moves to expel Russian diplomats in the Baltic states and Bulgaria.
Poland and Russia share a border and a complicated history. Since Polish and Russian are both Slavic languages, they’re fairly closely related. Poland shares a 600-km border with Ukraine (under Russia’s invasion for about four weeks now) and with Belarus (a Russian ally).
The Russian air defences located in Russia and Belarus (which have been hostile to Poland) cover most of the Polish territory.
Poland became a Nato member in 1999, alongside the Czech Republic and Hungary, the first three countries from the former Soviet bloc to join the alliance. The three nations were the first former members of the Warsaw Pact to join Nato.
Published By – Damandeep Singh
Edited By- Khushi Thakur
