The presidents of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have called on the NATO alliance to strengthen its defences against “threats emanating from Belarus,” such as the deployment of Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons there, and the possible relocation of the Wagner Group of Russian mercenaries to Belarus. Polish President Andrzej Duda (centre), Lithuania’s Gitanas Nausėda (right ) and
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, which led a failed rebellion in Russia last month, has returned to Russia, the Belarusian autocrat has said. Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.Photo: Telegram/concordgroup_official/ Lukashenko said on June 27 that Prigozhin had arrived in Belarus as part of the deal he brokered between the mercenary boss and the
The Russian military has lost nearly half of its forces in Ukraine, a top British defense official has said. Moscow, the Kremlin skyline.Photo: PAP/ gm/soa/ Grzegorz Michałowski Speaking before the House of Commons defense committee on Tuesday, British Armed Forces Commander Admiral Tony Radakin highlighted the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive and dismissed claims of a slow progress, emphasizing
Poland is sending heavy police equipment, including a helicopter and armoured trucks, to help reinforce the Belarusian border amid rising migrant pressure and the movement of Russia’s Wagner Group of mercenaries to Belarus, officials have said. The Polish Tajfun (Typhoon) armoured riot control vehicle.Photo: policja.pl The latest move was announced by a spokeswoman for the Polish Border
Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau and Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak are set to meet with their British counterparts, James Cleverly and Ben Wallace, in London on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss Russia's war in Ukraine and European security. Poland's top diplomat Zbigniew Rau and Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak.PAP/Radek Pietruszka According to a statement issued by the Polish foreign ministry,
The International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine (ICPA) opened in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday. An international center that aims to prosecute Russia's crime of aggression against Ukraine opened in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, July 3, 2023.Photo: EPA/Koen van Weel The center's primary objective is to gather evidence
Poland will deploy five hundred police officers to its border with Belarus, the country's Interior Minister has said. Polish-Belarusian border as seen in Usnarz Górny, 1 July 2023. Photo: PAP/Artur Reszko "Due to the tense situation on the border with Belarus I have decided to bolster our forces with five hundred Polish police officers from riot and counter-terrorism
More than 30,000 new arrivals from Ukraine have crossed every day into Poland in recent days, Polish Border Guard data show. Poland's border crossingPolish Border Guard/twitter.com/Straz_Graniczna According to the agency, some 33,000 people have arrived in Poland from Ukraine over the past 24 hours. The figure was 31,800 on Thursday and 29,900 on Wednesday. Meanwhile, 32,500 people crossed from
The Ukrainian Deputy Minister for Defence Hanna Malar warns that Russia would not be inhibited by moral imperatives from risking a nuclear catastrophe. Deputy Defence Minister for Ukraine, Hanna Malar. Facebook/Ганна Маляр Ukraine's Deputy Minister for Defence Hanna Malar has spoken to the Polish Press Agency (PAP) this week, warning that the "entire free world" should take an
The war in Ukraine has weakened the Franco-German axis that once defined Europe, with the balance of power now shifting toward the UK and Poland, a British political scientist has claimed. Fighting in Ukraine's Bakhmut.PAP/Muhammed Enes Yildirim / Anadolu Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM In an op-ed featured in the British news magazine The New Statesman, Maurice Glasman, a political scientist from St Mary's University in London, highlights
