Ukraine terrifies dictators — but democracies may be the ones to break it

As putin fears #Ukraine and Trump distorts it, Anne Applebaum warns: Kyiv beats autocracy on the battlefield — but truth-starved democracies may still let it fall.

by Anne Applebaum

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/21/putin-trump-and-the-battle-for-reality-authoritarianisms-fiercest-critic-takes-on-ukraines-media-war/

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on May 11 that russian intelligence services ordered a May 2024 arson attack on the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw.

"We now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw was caused by arson ordered by the russian special services," Tusk said on X. "Some of the perpetrators have already been detained, all the others are identified and searched for."

https://kyivindependent.com/tusk-says-russia-ordered-2024-arson-attack-on-warsaw-shopping-centre/