The end of the war in Ukraine
could spark an explosion of international organised crime, which
is why Kiev would require "massive support" to ensure its
security, according to Polish President Andrzej Duda, in an
interview with the Financial Times. The president, who is
nearing the end of his second term, is concerned that crime will
spill over the border from Ukraine to Poland, affecting Western
Europe and the United States. "Just remember when the Soviet
Union collapsed and how much the rate of organised crime
increased in Western Europe, but also in the United States,"
Duda said, drawing a parallel with the situation in Russia in
the early 1990s, when violence was rampant among veterans of the
decade-long Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
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