Ukrainian ships are unable to leave ports since the beginning of the war. There is also a problem with Ukrainian grain export due to the war. Polish parliament declared help in this regard. Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announces that Russia would ensure the safety of ships leaving Ukrainian ports.
Poland will sell arms to Ukraine in one of the country's biggest defence export contracts of the last 30 years, the prime minister announced on Tuesday.
The Museum in Nieborów has recently opened an exhibition “In Radziwiłł’s House They Stood...,” which displays artworks, tableware and furniture that the noble Polish family Radziwiłł had owned. In recent years, those pieces were scattered in private collections around the world, however, the owners lend them to the museum to form a permanent display.
Day 104 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian forces fired on Lysychansk and Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region. Russia is continuing to blackmail...
The National Day of the Silesian Uprisings will enter the calendar of national holidays. President Andrzej Duda has signed an act in this matter in Katowice today. The holiday will be celebrated on June 20. As the Chancellery of the President informed earlier, it will not be a public holiday when Poles do not have to go to work or school.
USB-C will be the standard from mid-2024. A common charger will be found compatible with all smartphones, headphones, tablets, cameras, e-book readers, in-ear and earphones and headsets, portable game consoles, navigators and speakers, as well as cable-rechargeable computer keyboards and mice.
“I received an order from a major to shoot at civilians who appear suspicious without warning or hesitation,” a soldier from the separatist, Moscow-controlled Donetsk People's Republic (DRL) declared in another intercepted conversation of the occupiers, published by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
The National Museum in Wroclaw opened an exhibition dedicated to the illustrations by Stěpán Zavřel. He was a Czech artist and writer of children's books, who fled from Czechoslovakia during the communist regime and built a career in Western Europe. The exhibition of his works is open until July 31st in CK Agora in Wroclaw.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has said cooperation between the 12 countries lying between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas that together form the Three Seas Initiative will help protect Central and Eastern Europe from Russian energy blackmail.
PKN Orlen is Poland's biggest oil and gas company. At the Orlen petrol station in Bielsko-Biała, all cars suddenly 'broke' because of 'some bad energy'. A group of drivers found a way to organize a protest action against the high fuel prices. "There is something here, some bad energy," said the BMW driver. The reason for this unusual behavior action is the high fuel price. 95 petrol will set another record from Monday, June 6th and PLN 8 per liter becomes more and more real.
The war in Ukraine arouses many emotions. However, it is worth starting from square one. The Russian president's speech on 21 February was initially very difficult to listen to because among Polish media only the Telewizja Republika was broadcasting it. Such an important speech as the one in which Putin describes and announces the "military operation" against Ukraine should be available on every platform and all over the TV. However, the public was still sceptical and believed that Russia would not invade Ukraine after all because we live in the 21st century, and the media reassured people about this belief.
Polish volleyball players finished the first Volleyball Nations League tournament with three wins and one loss. In the last meeting in Bossier City, they defeated Germany 3:2.
Yesterday (June 5) in Krakow was another edition of the Dragon Parade, a yearly demonstration of handmade mascots shaped like dragons. This year’s theme was the ancient architecture of Poland. The event lasted two days, June 4th and 5th.
Today, Pope Francis appealed to "the leaders of nations" not to bring humanity to destruction. The Pope, who has previously admitted that "we are all guilty," did not, however, indicate who started “the madness of destruction.”
During the night of 5-6 June 1944, Antoni Heda's (codename "Grey") Home Army (Polish: "AK") unit freed over 60 people from a German prison in Końskie. He was a Polish military commander and a notable veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II and later the independence movement against Soviet occupation following the war. Besides today's anniversary, one of the best known of his partisan actions was the raid on the Communist prison in Kielce in August 1945, in which roughly 300 political prisoners were freed.
The 5th World Congress of Translators of Polish Literature ended yesterday. It is an event that honours the efforts of those without whom Polish literature could not exist abroad. During the gala ceremony, the Transatlantyk Award granted by the Book Institute was received by three outstanding promoters of Polish literature abroad: Ewa Thompson, Tokimasa Sekiguchi and this year's winner, Silvano De Fanti.
Polish women's volleyball team defeated South Korea 3:0 in Bossier City, USA, in their third Nations League match. In the first set, the red-whites let their rivals get away with only 9 points.
