Most Poles fear Ukraine's defeat would weaken Poland's security, rp.pl poll finds

Over 60% of participants in a SW Research poll for rp.pl said that if Ukraine lost its war with Russia, Poland's security would decline. The article also cites the Financial Times, which reported that Volodymyr Zelensky rejected a Russian peace proposal in 2023. That proposal would have had Russian forces withdraw from most of the four regions Russia illegally annexed in 2022 (Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson), with a new demarcation line running roughly along the border as it stood before 24 February 2022. It also envisaged Ukraine recognising the Russian occupation of Crimea and guaranteeing Russia a land corridor to the peninsula, with NATO states guaranteeing the ceasefire and Ukraine's security.

According to the article, Russia's current reported terms are less favourable to Ukraine. Moscow reportedly demands that Ukraine withdraw from the just over 10% of Donetsk oblast it still controls, an area the article describes as heavily fortified, and it does not promise to pull back from the occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Russia also wants a commitment that Ukraine will not join NATO. The article notes long-running concerns that Russia is preparing a mobilisation of several hundred thousand conscripts, and that Russian air attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure are intensifying while Ukraine lacks Patriot interceptor missiles.