Special Envoy to Rzeszow
In Poland, the eastern city of Rzeszow is at the forefront of the military logistics system supplying the Ukrainian army. Rzeszow's 200,000 residents hosted 100,000 Ukrainian refugees at the height of the humanitarian crisis in April 2022, making the city the first in the world to be awarded the title of "Saving City" by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. An hour's drive from the border, this medium-sized city has transformed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine into a cosmopolitan nucleus and true strategic rearguard of the Allied forces.
Yet in the past, Poles themselves perceived Rzeszow as traditionalist and withdrawn. "Until now, the city had never seen so many nationalities on its soil," says the director of the Manoir Ostoya hotel, Karina Guzek-Buk. His establishment housed 1400 Indians evacuated from Ukraine in the first weeks of the conflict, then refugees...
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