Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

Russia Expands the Air War

Views from Warsaw and Kyiv

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Anne Applebaum
Sep 15, 2025
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I have just returned to Warsaw from a few days in Kyiv. I will write in much more detail about Ukraine in The Atlantic soon (and will share it here) but for this audience I wanted to describe how it feels to be in the Ukrainian capital, and in the Polish capital, during an escalating air campaign, a few days after 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspa…

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