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
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko may seek to use the Wagner Group of mercenaries to reduce his country's military dependence on Russia, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US think tank. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.Photo: EPA/BELARUS PRESIDENT PRESS SERVICE Lukashenko announced on Tuesday that the leader of Russia's 24-hour mutiny, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had arrived in Belarus, days after his
The European Union has approved EUR 39.33 million of new support for Polish farmers affected by imports of agri-food products from Ukraine, officials said on Monday. Pixabay LicenseImage by moerschy from Pixabay The European Commission announced that member states on Monday approved a EUR 100 million support package for farmers in Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. Of this, Poland will receive EUR 39.33 million, while EUR 9.77 million will be allocated to Bulgaria,
Germany has objected to plans by the European Commission to use frozen Russian central-bank assets for the reconstruction of Ukraine, because it fears this would “set a precedent for others to pursue,” such as Poland’s claim for reparations from Germany for World War II, according to a report. Photo:PAP/Abaca/AA/ABACA Germany’s objections were detailed in an article by Britain’s Financial
