Twelve people died and many were injured in an accident involving a Polish coach that occurred on Saturday before 6 am on the A4 motorway north of the Croatian capital Zagreb, Croatian news agency HINA reported. The information was confirmed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with Polish consular services going to the scene. It added that all the victims of the accident were Polish citizens.
A two-day curfew will be in force in Mykolaiv, an important port city in the southern part of Ukraine, from Friday evening. The information was provided by the regional authorities. The restrictions will remain in place until the morning hours of 8 August.
The US Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighters will participate in a Nato Air Shielding mission over the Alliance's eastern flank, Poland's defence minister wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
The first month of the war was the worst. There were almost no breaks in the Russian attacks. The attack on Kyiv ended, it started on Izium, then on Odesa and so on one by one," said Lt Col Denys Smazny, quoted by the Ukrainian portal TSN.ua. The military officer also revealed the heavy losses suffered by the Russian aggressor during one of the attacks on Kyiv.
Poland's State Treasury will buy out shares in the Polish Mining Group (PGG), Europe's biggest coal mining conglomerate, from four shareholders in which the Treasury has stakes.
Polish has joined the ranks of official languages in the Municipality of Aurea in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, alongside Portuguese, the official language of the Federative Republic of Brazil, reports the Polish Community Association. According to the Association, the Brazilian-Polish community has thus accomplished "an unprecedented thing in its history."
The US State Department announced the imposition of sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged partner Alina Kabayeva, as well as other members of the Russian elite and entities and individuals involved in attempts to circumvent sanctions. At the same time, the US State Department sanctioned three more oligarchs and 24 entities in the arms sector.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has admitted that Polish households will be affected by rising costs of energy but said a part of these costs will be covered by energy companies.
A guerrilla movement has begun to operate in the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine; members of underground organisations are not only distributing anti-Russian leaflets but also destroying infrastructure facilities, which is slowing down the enemy's combat operations and making it more difficult for them to conquer the area, the head of the regional government Serhiy Hayday, who is loyal to Kyiv, announced.
The Baltic Pipe gas pipeline to link Norwegian gas resources with Denmark and Poland will officially open on September 29, a government official said on Tuesday.
One of the blackbird's fledglings, as soon as it learned to eat on its own, decided to help us feed the still-dependent fledglings it was staying with, reported naturalists at the “Mysikrólik” wildlife rehabilitation centre in Bielsko-Biała on Monday.
The NATO peacekeeping Kosovo Force (KFOR) reported that the situation in the north of Kosovo, where protests by Serbs living there took place on Sunday night into Monday, is tense. “We are prepared to intervene if stability is threatened,” it was conveyed.
Poland's inflation, which reached 15.5 per cent in July, will start going down after the summer holidays and will fall within the central bank's target range in 2024, said Adam Glapinski, governor of the National Bank of Poland (NBP).
This year, on the 27th of August, Ogrodzieniec Castle has set its sights on an event (Polish: Baloniada z BGK) in the form of an aerial picnic connected with hot air balloons. Throughout the day, the castle grounds will be open to stands with flight simulators, kites, mock-ups, a gyro trainer, a bicycle with a built-in Lilienthal wing, a Foka5 glider, and stands with art workshops for children, games and activities about aviation. Sounds interesting, doesn't it?
“There are reports of gunfire heard in Novi Paza, south of Serbia near the Kosovo border,” Firam news informs on Twitter. Unconfirmed information is emerging that there has been an exchange of fire between the Serbian Army and Kosovo Police.
There was an accident on the A14 motorway in Germany at night from Thursday to Friday that resulted in the driver of a sports Porsche being decapitated. Polish drivers were involved in an attempt to stop the damaged vehicle.