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Crimea sentence and a Polish general's infection
Summary
A look back at two security-related reports from the days around 11 March 2020, one from Crimea and one from Poland's armed forces.
What did the security picture around Ukraine and its neighbours look like on 11 March 2020? The reports from the days leading up to that date pointed in two quite different directions.
On 5 March 2020, a court in Russian-controlled Crimea sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to six years in prison for activities of a banned extremist organisation. Activists said the case was part of a crackdown that violates religious freedom.
On 10 March 2020, Poland's Ministry of National Defence announced on Twitter that General Commander Jarosław Mika had tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from Germany. He became the highest-ranking member of NATO's armed forces to be infected.
The two reports concerned unrelated matters, one a prosecution under Russian-imposed rule in Crimea, the other a health case at the top of the military command of a neighbouring NATO state. Together they marked the days before 11 March 2020.
