The world record holder in time trial sport climbing, Aleksandra Mirosław, won the gold medal at the European Championships in this discipline in Munich. The silver was won by Aleksandra Kałucka and the bronze by her twin sister Natalia Kałucka.

Large numbers of dead fish were found in the Ner river, in the central Łódzkie province, following a similar incident in the River Odra, which flows through Poland and Germany.

“Gąsienice I podkowy” (eng. tracks and horseshoes) - is the name of the XVII International Rally of Military Vehicles, which is taking place in Borne Sulinowo (Szczecin county, Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship) on 12-15 August. The stars of the evening on Saturday will be Róże Europy (concert starting at 9 p.m.) and Chłopcy z Placu Broni (11 p.m.).

Russian propaganda is aimed at dividing Europe, according to Jānis Sārts, director at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Riga. According to him, the Kremlin is portraying Poland as a country that unnecessarily provides support to Ukraine, because if it stopped, the problems of inflation, hunger or energy prices would disappear.

The team from the International Centre for Cancer Vaccine Science (ICCVS) at the University of Gdańsk want to collect immune cells from patients’ blood samples which can recognise and fight against cancer.

Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has fired, the CEO of Polish Waters, the state-owned company in charge of water management in Poland, and the head of the Environmental Protection Inspectorate in response to their handling of the River Odra pollution disaster.

Inflation will continue at a two-digit level until the end of the year, with a slight rise in August and a fall in Q4, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), a state-owned think-tank, said on Friday citing the latest figures from the Central Statistical Office (GUS).

Russian military equipment destroyed following Tuesday's attack on an airbase in Novofedorivka in annexed Crimea was worth $650-850 million, the Ukrainian edition of Forbes estimated.

This year's Perseid meteor shower, or "night of shooting stars", will fall on Saturday 13 August in the morning. Astronomical picnics are organised at this time in various places in Poland. The Perseids can be observed in lesser intensity already earlier.

Yesterday, the Polish Fishermen’s Association reported that over three tonnes of dead fish have been hauled out of the River Oder as water company officials warned people against entering the river and the Polish government pledged to investigate possible contamination.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, has said that Poland should meet further conditions to obtain financing from the reconstruction fund. According to experts, Brussels' expectations have no legal basis, as the decision on this matter was already made in June.

85 years ago, on August 11, 1937, the head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), Nikolai Yezhov, issued Order No. 00485, ordering "the complete liquidation of Polish spy networks". It was a signal to start the Polish operation - a gigantic extermination action, the victims of which were approximately 100,000 Poles in the former Polish borderlands.

Six civilians were killed in the last 24 hours as a result of the Russian attacks in Bakhmut in the Donetsk Oblast. In Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region, two people died and seven were injured. There were also explosions at a Belarusian military airport. The United Kingdom and Denmark announced another tranche of military aid for Ukraine.

The former President of the Russian Federation and current Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited the occupied part of Ukraine today and took part in a ‘security meeting.’ As might be noted he did it on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Is Vladimir Putin scared to visit Ukraine?

The Environmental Protection Inspectorate (WIOS) in Wroclaw (west southern Poland) has notified the local prosecutor of an ecological disaster that has hit the Oder, Poland's second longest river. Tonnes of dead fish have been washed up along with other animals such as beavers.

The court decided that a 23-year-old resident of the Wyszków district would spend the following three months in custody. The man got behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol last weekend and hit 3 people at a pedestrian crossing. The Ford driver, wanting to avoid responsibility, drove away from the scene of the accident without providing any assistance to the victims. The 23-year-old could spend up to 12 years in prison for such behaviour.

Ukrainian officials are portraying the attack on a Russian military airfield in Crimea as the start of a counteroffensive in the south, and in doing so are deepening the Kremlin's confusion about the ability of Ukrainian forces to launch long-range attacks, according to the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Ukrainian experts expect fierce fighting in August and September that will determine the fate of the next phase of the war.

Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, has written in the German daily "Die Welt" that while EU member states are supposedly equal, there is a de facto oligarchy in place whereby the strongest countries exert power.