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9 months ago

Poland to build Europe’s ‘strongest army’ in 2026: PM Tusk

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has declared 2026 a "year of Polish acceleration," pledging to build "the strongest army in Europe," boost infrastructure investment, and take a tougher stance on crime, local media reported. In a New Year’s address, Tusk said his government would speed up military expansion, launch major infrastructure projects, and continue what he called the "repolonisation" and rebuilding of key industries, including the defence sector, TVP World reported. He also announced plans to introduce a strict "Polish first" rule in public procurement. Read More…

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10 months ago

NATO must speed up drone protection work on eastern flank: Poland

NATO needs to accelerate its work on strengthening the protection of its eastern flank from drone attacks, Poland’s defence minister says, after an incursion that prompted Romania to scramble fighter jets in response. “Operation Eastern Sentry requires reinforcement,” Poland’s Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said, referring to a NATO operation to protect territory along NATO’s eastern flank, launched in response to a Russian drone incursion into Poland in September. Read More…

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10 months ago

NATO must speed up drone protection work on eastern flank: Poland

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10 months ago

Railway line blast in Poland an ‘unprecedented act of sabotage’

An explosion on a Polish railway line that serves as a key route for aid deliveries, including weapons transfers, to Ukraine was an “unprecedented act of sabotage”, the country’s PM Donald Tusk has said, pledging to catch those responsible. Railway staff discovered damage to the track on the Warsaw to Lublin line on Sunday, before investigations established it had been deliberately caused. “Blowing up the rail track on the Warsaw-Lublin route is an unprecedented act of sabotage targeting directly the security of the Polish state and its civilians,” Tusk said… Read More…

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1 year ago

Pakistan, Poland review entire spectrum of bilateral ties

The 9th Round of Bilateral Political Consultations (BPC) between Pakistan and the Republic of Poland held in Warsaw reviewed the entire spectrum of bilateral relations. The Pakistani delegation was led by Ambassador Muhammad Ayub, Additional Foreign Secretary (Europe), while the Polish delegation was headed by Secretary of State at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski. The Ambassador of Pakistan to Poland, Muhammad Sami-ur-Rehman and the Polish Ambassador to Pakistan Maciej Pisarski, were also present during the consultations, Foreign Office Spokesperson, on Saturday, said in a press release. Read More…

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1 year ago

Lithuania links Russia to Ikea store arson attack

Russia’s military intelligence orchestrated an arson attack on an Ikea store in Vilnius last May, and a suspect is in custody in Poland along with others tied to similar incidents, a Lithuanian prosecutor has alleged. Lithuania’s investigation traced the arson to Russia through a complex network of intermediaries, said Arturas Urbelis, a prosecutor at the Lithuanian General Prosecutor’s Office. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western officials have accused Russian operatives of various acts of sabotage across Europe. Moscow has repeatedly denied any involvement. Read More…

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2 years ago

Poland says citizen killed in strike on aid convoy

Poland confirmed that one of its citizens was killed in a strike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy in Deir Al Balah, Gaza, on Monday night. Seven people died in the strike after the team left an aid warehouse, despite the journey having been co-ordinated with the Israeli army, World Central Kitchen said on Tuesday. "Poland objects to the disregard for international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians, including humanitarian workers," the Polish Foreign Ministry. Read More…

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2 years ago

F-16s will be shot down, warns Putin

Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Read More…

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2 years ago

Poland raids Russian spy network

Polish security services said Thursday they had raided a Russian spy network in cooperation with Czech intelligence, which a day earlier had busted a major Russian propaganda network. The services said their operations were linked to charges filed earlier this year against a Polish citizen suspected of spying for Russia. “The Internal Security Agency is conducting activities as part of an investigation into espionage activities for Russia directed against European Union countries and institutions,” agency spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski said on social media. Read More…

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2 years ago

Poland to withdraw court cases against EU climate policies

Poland will no longer take the EU to court to attempt to cancel numerous climate change policies and is preparing to withdraw lawsuits the previous government had filed to do this, sources familiar with the matter have said. After years of resisting certain European Union climate policies under the previous Law and Justice (PiS) party, Poland's October 2023 election has marked a shift in Warsaw's stance on fighting climate change. Read More…

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