Ewa Swoboda broke the Polish record in the 60-meter run with the timing of 6.99. At the Polish indoor championships in Toruń, she won the competition over this distance, achieving the best result in the world this year.
- The current government in Kyiv must understand that it is questioning the future of Ukrainian statehood if it continues to act in the same spirit, Vladimir Putin said in his speech. He claimed that Russian troops were successful in Ukraine and that the army did not send conscripts to the front.
On the initiative of the American side, a meeting between the Secretary of State and US Secretary of State Anthon Blinken and Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau took place today (March 5).
As a result of the current events in Ukraine, restaurateurs from all over Poland are removing “Russian dumplings” from the menu. The change only affects the name – from now on the menu there are the “Ukrainian” ones.
The head of Donetsk Oblast, Pavel Kyrylenko, announced the beginning of the evacuation of civilians from Mariupol (western Ukraine). The ceasefire with the Russians is scheduled to last between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. and the evacuation begins at 11 a.m. (local time).
The German government is sending more and more weapons to Ukraine, including 2.7 thousand “Strela” missiles. “This equipment is so old that the Bundeswehr has not approved it for years,” reports the portal Business Insider. The German “Bild” complains that the aid to Ukraine is apparently an opportunity to clean up the GDR’s weapons stockpiles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin “has no funds to continue the war,” Russian economist Vladimir Milov, adviser to imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, told the Italian daily “La Stampa.” Now, Milov says, “when Putin has gained momentum, he would not stop.”
Starting from today, March 4th, until March 6th, the International Tourism and Free Time Fair will take place at the Tarczynski Arena in Wroclaw. The attractions will be divided into three sections: Traveller’s Festival, Culinary Festival and an educational segment. The participants will be able to participate in lectures about tourism, plan their holidays and even watch demonstrations of cooking regional foods.
“Russia is bringing people from the annexed Crimea to the cities it occupies in southern Ukraine. They are supposed to show happiness with the arrival of Russian troops,” Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, reported.
The State Duma of the Russian Federation passed a law: “The citizens of the Russian Federation who call a special military operation on the territory of a foreign state a war may be imprisonment for up to 15 years.” 407 of the 450 MPs voted in favour of the law.
Michael Watford (also known as Mikhail Tolstosheya) is a Ukrainian-born Russian oligarch who made his fortune from oil and gas after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The body of a 66-year-old businessman was found in his villa in Surrey.
Officers of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) detained, on suspicion of espionage, a citizen of Spain of Russian origins. The man is accused of participating in foreign intelligence activities against Poland, Stanisław Żaryn, the Spokesperson of the Minister-Special Services Coordinator, informed.
The Russian military has taken control of the nuclear power plant. The fire hit the training building and the laboratory outside the nuclear power plant. “This is nuclear terrorism,” said President Zelenskyy before extinguishing the fire.
The winner of Poland’s Got Talent in 2013, Tetiana Galitsyna, along with Vlodyr – her student and another Got Talent participant – and a team of artists from Galitsyna Art Group will perform at Łódź Philharmonic at the beginning of April. The Ukrainian artists will present “The Little Prince” through a form of sand animation and speed-painting.
