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As a key regional member of NATO and neighbor of Ukraine, Poland is of particular interest to the Kremlin, and the usual misinformation weapons used by Russia also feature allusions to Jews and Americans — and may now include attempts to recruit Poles by the Wagner Group.

Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL's newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe's Eastern neighborhoods.

Jakub Kalensky has closely followed a decade of Kremlin aggression from the forefront of Euro-Atlantic efforts to counter Russian "hybrid warfare." He talked to RFE/RL's Georgian Service about nuclear threats, Moscow's disinformation success, and phrases "straight out of Hitler's notebook."

The EU Strategic Communications Working Group has corrected the text of a recent tweet by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, which claims that NATO will allegedly provide Moldova with weapons that would violate its neutral status. — Ukrinform.

George Soros did not admit to helping overthrow former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in a CNN interview.