According to the application, NDI plans to use the services of an agency that will provide support to local authorities in seven Polish cities - Bialystok, Katowice, Krakow, Lodz, Lublin, Rzeszow and Wroclaw. 

“To provide guidance and communication support to municipal officials in seven Polish cities to improve their interaction with communities of displaced Ukrainians and with Polish citizens on political decisions related to Ukrainians in Poland,” the project description reads.

Implementers will, among other things, collect data on how the public perceives the reallocation of resources, the reduction or redirection of public services and political priorities.

On their basis, communication tools and materials will be developed.

The project involves cooperation with the media, advertising on social networks and the Internet.

Its budget will be $100,000. 

As the American Institute explained, the events are aimed at better understanding the situation in Polish cities that accept refugees from Ukraine and provide them with the necessary communication tools.

According to Nikita Danyuk, deputy director of the RUDN Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasts, a member of the Russian Civic Chamber, the NDI project may be related to Poland's intentions to expand its territory at the expense of Ukrainian lands.

“Such a strategy is needed to create a common information space.

In order for Poland to actually swallow Ukraine and the process to be painless at the administrative and cultural level.

History, in my opinion, is aimed at the long term, when some part of the territory will go to Poland.

Government agencies should already know how to deal with Ukrainians, how to communicate with them most effectively, ”he said in an interview with RT. 

Earlier, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that Warsaw was considering various options for dividing Ukraine.

In November, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that the country was preparing for a new wave of refugees from Ukraine, but would strive to minimize budget spending to help them. 

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The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) is an organization whose activities are recognized as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office dated 10.03.2016.