PCBaller World/Poland/Eastern Crisis

The situation known as the Eastern Crisis (Kryzys wschodni) in PSNR, Great Lithuania War (Wielka wojna litewska) in The Eastern Polish Republic and Eastern Antiliberal War (Zahodny antyliberalny wójna) in Republic of Sorbia is an ongoing conflict in the eastern regions of Poland, however it remains a frozen conflict.

Background
During the 13-day civil war, the Porajists and the Lithuanian separatists were not fully eradicated due to the Polish army and police being preoccupied with fighting Sorbia in the west. As a result, an Eastern democratic anti-government movement emerged. When the Zgorzelec treaty was signed, the Porajist government realized that they could not depend on the Polish army and police being busy in the west. Therefore, they launched a grand offensive in the Republic of Belarus, which was then led by Lukashenko. This strategy worked initially, as Porajists and democratists took control of important cities in Belarus. However, Poland intervened to assist its ally, the Belorussians, from falling into the hands of westernists, which escalated the conflict into a full-scale war. The Porajists established their own government in the east, which was not recognized by the government in Warsaw. The conflict eventually involved Serbia and the European Commonwealth for various reasons, which will be discussed in detail below.

Course of the war
During the initial stages of the war, the Polish armed forces managed to regain control of Minsk and some of western Belarus. However, Lithuanian separatists rose up in Polish Lithuania and the revolutionaries moved north to link up with the Lithuanians. After the ZZ released documents revealing the European Commonwealth's material support for the Lithuanian revolutionaries, the EC joined the war by crossing the Polish-European border. The European army aimed to quickly end the war and create an independent Lithuania or integrate Lithuania into the Commonwealth. They traveled along the coast through Kaliningrad to Kaunas, which they encircled, and then moved on to Warsaw. Meanwhile, the Polish army moved towards Riga and, after capturing the southern districts of the city, a white peace was signed.

Eventually, the Warsaw offensive culminated in the Battle of Ostrołęka, where Polish and Sorbian troops defeated the Lithuanian and Revolutionary troops and forced them back. Meanwhile, Polish troops in northern Belarus attacked west, causing a collapse of the Lithuanian front, which led to Poland regaining control of all of Lithuania. However, this left the Polish army's positions in northern Belarus vulnerable, and they were overrun by Belarussian revolutionaries, resulting in the loss of Lithuania once again. The Revolutionaries proclaimed the Federal Republic of Eastern Poland and Lithuania, believing that they had won. However, after a week of frozen conflict, the Polish army launched another counteroffensive towards Minsk, Wilno, and Klaipedia. The Minsk offensive was successful, the Wilno offensive reclaimed most of the Wilno voivodeship, and the Klaipedia offensive was initially successful but eventually pushed back. At the same time, Ukrainian independence revolutionaries rose up in the eastern part of the Podolia Voivodeship and took control of several cities in the region. The conflict remained frozen until the Polish forces retook the city of Tarnopol. Other than that, the conflict has largely remained in a stalemate, without any significant frontline movements.

Between the time of the triple offensive and retaking of tarnopol the Greater illinois navy had bombed some heavy artillery being used by the Polish army, which was retaliated with by Polish bombers and some coastal defenses shooting about 5 Greater Illinois ships down, due to this an EC suggestion the Greater Illinois navy withdrew from the Baltic for the time being.

Sorbia joined the war at the same time the European commonwealth joined the war and left the war after the Warsaw offensive was defeated.

Since the triple offensive, and especially the formation of the Warsaw Pact the Soviet Union has militarily supported Poland without actually joining the war, whilst Hungary has sent some peacekeeping forces but has recently begun retracting some of them over concerns with Dacia.