The Polish climate and environment minister has said that no toxic substances have been found in the water samples from the River Odra which have already been tested.

Poland and Czechia will start policing the airspace of their neighbour, Slovakia, in September, a spokesperson of the Slovak Defence Ministry has said.

Police officer - this is certainly a profession for people with passion, who like adrenaline and want to face new challenges every day on duty. These challenges can sometimes be surprising and are very often the result of experience and the so-called "police nose". The police officers on patrol were not short of both, as at night (8 August) they picked out a Ford car for control, whose driver, upon seeing a police car, started to run away.

The Polish government will allocate funds to restock the River Odra, Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister of Poland, wrote on social media on Monday.

Scientists from the Bialystok University of Technology have patented a method for producing aerobic granulated activated sludge. The technology may accelerate biological wastewater treatment, and after implementation - reduce the costs of operation of sewage treatment plants by reducing the amount of problematic sediment.

Ukrainian forces fired, probably with HIMARS rockets, on a base of mercenaries from the so-called Wagner Group in occupied Popasna in the Luhansk region. All indications are that the base was set up as a target thanks to ... Russian propagandists.

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.