Unfortunately, the crisis at the Polish border is not the only cause for concern in eastern Europe.
The reality is that today there is no stability in the former marches of the Russian Empire.
In Belarus, we have a ruling autocrat, who cheated in the 2020 presidential election, whose regime is being challenged by the forces of his country, and who used migrants as a means of blackmail against the European Union.
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In Ukraine, the situation is much more dangerous, because the country has been militarily fractured, in the east, in the Don basin, since the summer of 2014. A Ukrainian soldier was killed again, on November 19, 2021, by rebels pro-Russian separatists.
This civil war, which pits the Ukrainian regime resulting from Maidan's pro-European revolution against the pro-Moscow Russian speakers of Donetsk and Louhansk, has left more than 13,000 dead and 1.5 million displaced.
Among the dead are at least 3,000 civilians.
Separatist towns have been bombed indiscriminately
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