Poland is open to hosting US nuclear weapons amid the stand-off with Russia over Ukraine, President Andrzej Duda has said. In an interview with the Polish daily Fakt on Monday, the leader acknowledged that the issue of bringing US nukes to his country, much closer to Russian territory, “has been …
Read More »
Warsaw has summoned Ambassador Yakov Livne after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed a Polish aid worker in Gaza. The Polish authorities were critical of how Israel handled the incident and demanded compensation for the victim’s family. On Monday, the IDF carried out three consecutive airstrikes on a humanitarian convoy, …
Read More »
Poland summoned Russian Charge d’Affaires Andrey Ordash and demanded an explanation for an alleged violation of Polish airspace by a missile they claim to be Russian, the NATO country’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday evening. Poland’s deputy foreign minister, Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski, handed Ordash a note demanding …
Read More »
Poland will no longer provide arms to the Ukrainian forces, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said, adding that Warsaw would instead shift focus to its own security. The decision follows a diplomatic row over Ukrainian grain imports, which were banned in Poland after flooding local markets. Morawiecki told reporters on …
Read More »
Fighters from the private military company (PMC) Wagner want to “visit” Poland, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin on Sunday. According to Lukashenko, the PMC’S members want to reach the Polish capital Warsaw and the city of eastern city of Rzeszow, which they believe was a hub …
Read More »
Poland has imposed a “temporary ban” on agricultural and food products from Ukraine, citing the need to protect local markets from the “destabilization” caused by an ongoing inflow of cheap goods. Poland’s agriculture and development ministers have been tasked with issuing “relevant legal acts to protect the Polish agricultural market …
Read More »
Poland may end up “joining” the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine should the latter fail to protect its “independence,” the Polish ambassador to France, Jan Emeryk Rosciszewski, has said. The senior diplomat made the remarks on Saturday while speaking live to the broadcaster LCI. Rosciszewski squarely blamed the hostilities, …
Read More »
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has taken the German leadership to task over its reluctance to provide tanks to Ukraine. He said Berlin would end up on the wrong side of history unless it gave the green light to such deliveries. On Friday, Berlin reiterated its unwillingness to send Leopard …
Read More »
The US does not possess any new information that would suggest a missile that killed two people in Poland on Tuesday could be anything other than a Ukrainian one, the National Security Council’s spokesperson, Adrienne Watson, said in a statement on Wednesday. Washington remains convinced that Russia is to blame, …
Read More »
Poland has put its military on alert and is discussing whether to invoke NATO’s Article 4, officials in Warsaw said on Tuesday evening. The government is still investigating the cause of explosions in a village near the border with Ukraine, which Kiev blamed on Russia. Article 4 is a mechanism …
Read More »