large swaths of Polish territory summary extermination of more than 20’000 members of Polish elites unprovoked invasion of neighbouring Finland installing puppet governments in a number of European countries (e.g. Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland) despite existence of legal ones and forcing the nations into Eastern Bloc under military threat as well as forcing them to reject aid from Marshall Plan invading the nominally sovereign Hungarian state and executing its legal head of government dividing capital city of an occupied country into two isolated organisms through building the Berlin Wall organising and leading invasion and subsequent occupation of the nominally independent Czechoslovakia coupled with overthrow of its legal government invading Afghanistan, another neighbouring sovereign country, in effect plunging it into decades of bloodshed committing war crimes on its own citizens in Chechnya and killing its president shooting down two foreign passenger planes, a South Korean and a Malaysian one committing in Western countries numerous assassinations of dissidents, including at least three assassinations (Litvinenko, the Skripals, Khangoshvili) committed in a provocative manner in the recent past routinely committing or attempting assassinations of any potential future serious competitors against its incumbent president (Nemtsov, Navalny) or their imprisonment (Navalny, Khodorkovsky with his associates Lebedev and Kara-Murza) persistent threats and hostilities against several neighboring sovereign states, including Azerbaijan (1990–1994); Moldova (1992–present); Georgia (2004–present); Lithuania (2006); Estonia (2006–2007); Poland (2006-present); Belarus (2007); Ukraine (2014–present); Syria (2015–present); Turkey (2015–2016); Kazakhstan (2021–2022); and Armenia (2022) amongst others., including: establishing and sustaining separatist entities in the sovereign neighbouring countries of Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine, through deploying there its army claiming the right to decide for neighbouring sovereign countries their international alliances, effectively denying them sovereignty luring its neighbour Ukraine into surrendering its own nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances, despite invading later the country invading and de facto annexation of separatist regions earlier established in neighbouing Georgia using repeatedly threats of stopping immediately natural gas or oil supplied through pipelines in order to subdue its neighbours rescuing and sustaining a Middle Eastern dictatorship with a brutal military intervention annexation of Crimea, a part of neighbouring sovereign Ukraine, and launching a hybrid war in Ukrainian eastern regions using unconventional warfare to alienate a Western nation from its allied neighbours or to distort election process in another one at least three instances in the recent decade alone of a coup d'état attempt in a European sovereign