The Three Things (ep. 14)--A Balkan powder keg, the Polish elections and the Ukrainian war update...

Greetings and salutations! This week's The Three Things with your (licensed) detective in Central Europe, Preston Smith, courtesy of The Corners Magazine (www.thecorners.pl) and CDDI (www.cddi.pl). Here we discuss politics, true crime, war news, spy news and more (from a Central European perspective). Each segment runs from 15 to 20 minutes, and this week Yours Truly will discuss the consequences on Serbia (thus far) in the wake of the paramilitary raid in Banjska in North Kosovo; the Polish opposition win during the Oct. 15 parliamentary elections (and what to expect going forward) and the current situation in Ukraine, highlighting the Russian offensive in Avdiivka.
1:15 Kosovo and Serbia headbutting, and a sharp-worded European Parliament resolution on de-escalation (but a resolution that is more sharply-worded toward Serbia).
13:13--the Polish elections and what is likely to come.
27:37 The war in Ukraine update. Progress in Zaporizhzhia, Russian pressure in Avdiivka. Plenty to talk about here.

Intro copyright Hoodoohat/Marek Tymkoff and Preston Smith
Photo attributions:

Vucic photo by U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Polish elections photo by Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Map of Serbia by TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Banjksa photo by Konstantin Novakovic, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Josep Borrell by Ministry of the Presidency. Government of Spain (Attribution or Attribution), via Wikimedia Commons
Albin Kurti photo by AgronBeqiriPh, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Christopher Hill United States Department of State, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Aleksandar Vulin photo by Ministry of Defence of Serbia, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Donald Tusk European People's Party, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jaroslaw Kaczynski photo by Silar, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
ATACM missle by Army employee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Putin photo by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Maps courtesy of Deepstate UA.