NATO is vowing to ensure the safety of alliance member Poland. But a deadly Russian missile attack Sunday in western Ukraine, just 15 miles from the Polish border, is still causing anxiety for many Poles.
“We all believe that the fact that we are in NATO will protect us in some way, but each of us also remembers the history of World War II and the alliances of those times,” Winnicka said.On Sunday, Anna Kwiatkowska, 42, a mother of two, said a friend working for a foreign firm had advised the family to have their passports ready and some dollars, too.
But Russia’s strike Sunday on a Ukrainian military training center in Yavoriv, less than 15 miles from the border with Poland, shook the confidence of Poles living near the border and created anxiety among others all too aware of Russia’s and the Soviet Union’s past control of Poland’s territory. On Monday, nine people were killed in a morning rocket attack on a television tower in Antopol, about 100 miles from the Polish border.
Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Marcin Przydacz, said he does not believe that Russia, which he asserted “visibly is not coping in Ukraine,” would try an attack on a NATO country.People in the capital, Warsaw, in central Poland, were all too cognizant of the potential threat to Eastern bloc nations that, like Poland, were once under the control of the Soviet Union, for more than four decades after World War II.
“We all watch President Zelenskyy. If he doesn’t panic, we don’t panic. Come on. There is no panic,” Trzaskowski told a news conference.
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