While U.S. media focus rightly on Ukraine’s brave resistance against Vladimir Putin’s invasion army, another major story from the region has received less attention.
I attribute this to years of Russia-originated disinformation against its smaller east-central European neighbors, targeting both liberal and conservative journalists. The story that has not yet been fully reported is the unprecedented welcome of Ukraine’s refugees, almost all of them women and children, by Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and a few other countries in east-central Europe. The largest number of Ukrainians, by now nearly 2 million, found refuge and help in Poland, a member of both the European Union and NATO and now a key player in the U.S. response to Russia’s aggression.
