I will quote a fewer headlines from Polish media, which over the last months have conveyed a misunderstanding over the Vistula region of east Ukraine. This situation is bad, but not for these reasons and not for the way the media created it. But about that in a minute. Let us return to the assessments of Polish commentators who wrote about this city. “Russians tighten the loop around Pokrovska”, “Pokrowsk will fall like Kurachowe? “It will take weeks”, “The city that the Russians dream about is falling” – these are just any alarming words that Poles read. In Pokrowsk I was in July 2024, just before a disaster on the front. Its size proved smaller from a military position than it seemed.
