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Poland's defense minister announced on Tuesday that work was beginning “on arrangements to place” German Patriot air defense systems in Poland after Berlin refused to deploy the launchers to western Ukraine. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszcak had previously requested that...

A hero of Poland’s second republic is being buried today in Gdańsk. Mieczysław Jałowiecki bought the Westerplatte peninsula for Poland from its German owners shortly after the end of the First World War. His body, and that of his wife...

Poland has welcomed a European Union agreement to put a price cap on Russian oil at USD 60 per barrel. The EU, the G7 group of the world's wealthiest nations and Australia have backed the USD 60 per barrel price...

Iceland has opened its first embassy in the Polish capital, Warsaw, this week. The embassy was officially launched on December 1, the anniversary of the day Iceland regained independence in 1918. Poland opened its embassy to Iceland in 2013. The...

The US government is set to fund a $1.2 billion deal to supply advanced air defense systems for Ukraine. The work following the deal with US arms company Raytheon will be performed at a site in the US with a...

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced yesterday that the EU plans to set up a specialized court to investigate and prosecute possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine. In a post on Twitter, von der Leyen described the EU's...

The Polish government has announced plans to begin charging Ukrainian war refugees for the cost of state-provided housing. Draft legislation announced yesterday by the prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, proposes that refugees who remain more than four months in public housing...

Poland's state-run power company, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, has offered to help rebuild parts of Ukraine's energy system damaged by recent Russian airstrikes. CEO Wojciech Dąbrowski was quoted yesterday on the energetyka24.com website saying that PGE employees were ready to...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed to citizens and defense forces to prepare for another round of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine. In his daily video address last night, Zelensky warned that the coming week "could be as...

EU leaders commemorate anniversary of Holodomor in Ukraine The prime ministers of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine met in Kyiv yesterday to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor and discuss mutual support against Russian aggression. The three countries discussed continuing...