Russia regularly recruits Ukrainians in Poland to carry out espionage and sabotage.
Defence
Flashy hardware, fragile strategy: is Poland, NATO’s biggest defence spender, preparing for the right war?
Christiaan Paauwe
Russia’s drone incursions have reignited a complicated question.
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