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WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland´s top leaders celebrated the opening Saturday of a new – albeit unfinished – canal that they say will mean ships no longer must secure Russia´s permission to sail from the Baltic Sea to the ports of the Vistula Lagoon.

EU countries called to ban tourist visas, but some nations said ordinary Russians who may oppose the war shouldn’t be punished.

MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian military said Thursday that it has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s westernmost Baltic region, a move that comes amid soaring tensions with the West over Moscow’s action in Ukraine.

The head of Poland’s central bank has claimed that Germany is eyeing up ways of seizing territory lost to Poland after the end of the Second World War.

The Polish government has reported that it has seen a new surge of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa attempt to cross into the country illegally from Belarus, claiming the migrants first fly to Russia.

A pro-migrant NGO called on the German government to stop deporting migrants to neighbouring Poland, arguing the country treats them poorly.

A group of Polish lawmakers presented Germany with a proposal to lease the country’s nuclear power plants, which are set to be shut down.

Polish graves and the Christian iconography surrounding them have been desecrated in the multicultural city of Manchester, England. 

Prosecutors in Poland questioned witnesses after a 31-year-old man allegedly placed powerful explosives in a busy downtown area of Warsaw.

Poland is among the staunchest allies of Ukraine against Russian aggression, but the violence between 1942 and 1945 is a point of contention.

Israel and Poland have agreed to restore ambassadors, essentially ending a political spat that began a year ago after Warsaw passed a bill limiting Jews from reclaiming property lost in the Holocaust.

Dutch prosecutors arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited the border area on Thursday to mark the completion of a new steel wall.

A plan proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden to see grain exported from Ukraine has had holes poked in it by Poland.

Border guard has completed the first section on the Belarus border, and the govt said it will end the state of emergency in the area. 

BERLIN (AP) – Poland’s president has sharply criticized phone calls the leaders of France and Germany had with Vladimir Putin, saying the conversations serve only to legitimize the Russian leader.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is facing the prospect of a no-confidence vote over providing aid to conservative Poland.

The EU border agency has said more Ukrainian refugees are returning to their country than leaving it despite the ongoing conflict with Russia. 

A Dutch court is examining evidence of the fatal shooting of crime reporter Peter R. de Vries, who was brazenly gunned down almost a year ago.

The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has met with representatives of both Facebook and Google-owned YouTube, including the CEO of the latter, in order to discuss alleged Russian “disinformation” on the two platforms.

A shortage of gas triggered by Russia could leave six million without power, the govt asks coal stations it ordered close to remain open. 

Germany rejected suggestions it is reneging on a promise to provide Poland with tanks to make up for those that Warsaw delivered to Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland’s president travelled to Kyiv to support the country’s European Union aspirations, becoming the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of the war.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has promised to give military aid to both Finland and Sweden if either country is attacked.

Natural gas prices rose after Russia said it would no longer send supplies to Europe via a pipeline through Poland, citing new sanctions.

The Russian ambassador to Poland was surrounded by protesters and dashed with blood-like paint during a WW2 commemorative event.

Russia has halted all gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria after demanding ‘unfriendly’ nations pay for energy in rubles, not dollars.

South Korean military police on Monday detained a South Korean Marine upon his arrival back into the country that day from eastern Europe, where he allegedly attempted to travel to Ukraine to fight for the nation in its latest war with Russia, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has released figures claiming that over five million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion in February. According to the UNHCR, a total of 5,034,439 Ukrainians have fled

New explosions rocked a coal mine in southern Poland Thursday, injuring 10 rescuers who were preparing to search for seven missing people.

Pope Francis thanked the people of Poland Wednesday for their generous reception of Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country.

During an interview with CBS News’ “The Takeout” podcast on Wednesday released on Friday, Polish Ambassador to the United States Marek Magierowski said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s image has undergone a dramatic transformation and he is “the leader of the

As a number of EU leaders – including the President of Poland – visit Ukraine, Germany has been left licking its wounds after apparently being told that their head of state is ‘not wanted’ in the country.

A special commission has reinforced earlier allegations the death of the President and 95 others in Russia was the result of a Moscow plan.

Fifteen miles from the Ukrainian border, a group of Americans huddle after unloading, sorting, and preparing to ship aid into Ukraine.

The French ambassador to Poland was summoned on Friday by the Polish foreign minister after President Emmanuel Macron branded Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki a “far-right antisemite”.