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Ukraine: Ukraine Situation report No.21 as of 12 December 2014

• organisation: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs;
• source: ReliefWeb – OCHA Situation Reports;
• announcement date: the 12th of December 2014.

1. „Gdańsk 1939. Donieck 2014”

• signatories: Władysław Bartoszewski, Jacek Dehnel, Inga Iwasiów, Ignacy Karpowicz, Wojciech Kuczok, Dorota Masłowska, Zbigniew Mentzel, Tomasz Różycki, Janusz Rudnicki, Piotr Sommer, Andrzej Stasiuk, Ziemowit Szczerek, Olga Tokarczuk, Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, Magdalena Tulli, Agata Tuszyńska, Szczepan Twardoch, Andrzej Wajda, Kazimierz Wóycicki, Krystyna Zachwatowicz;
• source: „Gazeta Wyborcza” (the text of the appeal was published simultaneously in "The Economist", "Le Monde", „Die Welt”, "La Libre Belgique" and the Ukrainian press);
• announcement date: the 1st of September 2014.

2. „Jedziemy z pomocą na Ukrainę”

• signatories: Adam Michnik, Janina Ochojska;
• source: „Gazeta Wyborcza”;
• announcement date: the 11th of December 2014.

3. Appeal of Polish NGOs regarding aid to Ukraine

• signatories: 22 Polish NGOs, including Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej, Europejski Instytut na rzecz Demokracji, Fundacja Edukacja dla Demokracji, Fundacja im. Stefana Batorego, Fundacja Współpracy Polsko-Ukraińskiej PAUCI, Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Instytut Spraw Publicznych, Polska Akcja Humanitarna, Polska Fundacja im. Roberta Schumana, Związek Ukraińców w Polsce;
• source: the webpage of the Stefan Batory Foundation;
• announcement date: the 15th of December 2014.

It is worth being aware of the existence of voices that differ from the above fundamentally, such as, e.g., the following one, signed by former German politicians and (former?) intelllectuals and cultural personalities

„Wieder Krieg in Europa? Nicht in unserem Namen!”

• signatories: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Eberhard Diepgen, Erhard Eppler, Roman Herzog, Burkhard Hirsch, Lothar de Maizière, Otto Schily, Gerhard Schröder, Manfred Stolpe, Horst Teltschik, Hans-Jochen Vogel, Antje Vollmer, Wim Wenders and others;
• source: „Die Zeit”;
• announcement date: the 5th of December 2014.

of replies to it,

„Deutsche warnen vor Krieg, Polen warnen vor Wladimir Putin”

• author: Juliane Schäuble;
• source: „Der Tagesspiegel”;
• announcement date: the 7th of December 2014.

„Wieder ein Krieg in Europa? Denen rutscht doch das Herz in die Hose”

• author: Bert Hoppe;
• source: „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”;
• announcement date: the 10th of December 2014.

and, finally, of the expert counter-appeal

„Osteuropa-Experten sehen Russland als Aggressor”

• signatories: over a hundred German-speaking experts on East European politics;
• source: „Der Tagesspiegel”;
• announcement date: the 11th of December 2014.

1. „Ukraińscy uchodźcy. Bierz dzieci, uciekaj.”

• author: Igor T. Miecik;
• source: „Gazeta Wyborcza”
• announcement date: the 11th of December 2014.

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