The Russian-Ukrainian War and Its Military Implications

The author presents the issue of the Russian-Ukrainian war and its military implications. For research purposes, the author assumed that the conflict, which has been going on since the spring of 2014, represents a specific variety of warfare called hybrid war both in the academic discourse and in the statements of those engaged in it. The purpose of the author’s research is to find an answer to the following question: what is the specificity of the hybrid war in Ukraine? The author’s thesis is that the specifics of this war are varied, and its determinants should be sought basically in two stages, that is, before and after the outbreak of Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine in 2022. At the end of the article, the author draws conclusions and makes recommendations for the security (defense) system of the Republic of Poland.