Russia is using grain as ammunition, Polish Agriculture Minister Robert Telus said on Tuesday (July 18) after the collapse of a U.N.-brokered deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain through the Black Sea. According to Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Russia's decision to quit the deal "cannot lead to the destabilisation of Polish agricultural markets".

A small passenger aircraft fell onto a group of people at an airfield in Chrcynno, near Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki - a town near Warsaw. The triage team said 5 people had died in the accident and at least 7 were injured, including 2 seriously.

A deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine's grain for the past year expired on Monday after Russia quit and warned it could not guarantee the safety of ships in a move the United Nations said would "strike a blow to people in need everywhere." Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau called Russia's move "an act of economic aggression against the states of the Global South, which are most dependent on the Ukrainian grain".

The most likely motive was unrequited love - Greater Poland Police spokesman Andrzej Borowiak said on Monday (July 17), commenting on the tragic shooting that had taken place on Sunday in central Poznań. A man gunned down another man at Święty Marcin Street, and fatally shot himself immediately after.

Core inflation in June 2023 dropped down to 11.1% year on year from 11.5% the previous month - the National Bank of Poland announced on Monday (July 17). In a month to month comparison, core inflation in June decreased from 0.4% in May to 0.3% in June. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the same period stood at 11.5% y/y.

Michał Kwiatkowski, the world champion turned domestique, gave another superb reminder of his individual class when he soloed to victory in the 13th stage of the Tour de France on Friday.

A Polish citizen has been sentenced by a Belarus court for three years in penal colony - the Belarusian Human Rights Center "Viasna" informed on Friday (July 14). The organization added the Pole has been already transferred to a penal facility in Vitebsk Oblast.

An 18-year-old Polish man has been arrested and charged with plotting with Islamist militants to bomb a government building, the internal security agency said on Friday.

Russia said on Friday it will shut a Polish diplomatic mission looking after memorials to Polish officers massacred by the Soviets and a 2010 air crash that killed Poland's president, in retaliation for Warsaw's "aggressive line" towards Moscow. Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland would respond "in kind," while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Russia's decision "another hostile and incomprehensible act".

The Polish parliament on Thursday boosted the limits of electricity households may consume this year at 2022 prices, as the ruling party seeks to offer bigger relief to consumers in an election year.

Poland's National Security Council held a meeting on Thursday called by President Andrzej Duda the day before. After the session, the president said the decisions taken at the NATO summit in Vilnius had been "relayed in detail across the whole spectrum of our political scene". He also thanked the participants for raising "important questions" and "constructive attitude".

Warsaw's old series-81 metro carriages are gradually reaching Kyiv. The two cities agreed in March a total of 60 cars would be transferred from the Polish capital city to that of Ukraine. A video showing the unloading of the vehicles in Kyiv has been posted on social media.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda had agreed at a summit in Warsaw on Thursday (July 13) on a plan for Poland to buy additional South Korean weapons. The two presidents also agreed their countries could be optimal partners in the reconstruction of Ukraine.

"Today we have issued a decision in principle for Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe, which brings us closer to building the first nuclear plant in our country," Poland's Minister of Climate and Environment Anna Moskwa said in a tweet on Wednesday (July 12).

A range of decisions were made on Ukraine during a summit in Vilnius that bring it closer to NATO, Poland's president said on Wednesday (July 12), adding that there was no comparison between what had been decided regarding Ukraine at the 2008 summit in Bucharest and now. Furthermore, Duda said if Brest Gate - a strategic strip of land between Poland and Belarus - was attacked, "approximately 100,000 Allied soldiers would be sent to our territory for immediate defence".

A team of Polish doctors has started examining former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday.

Berlin on Wednesday scrapped plans for a joint tank maintenance hub in Poland after arduous talks failed, saying modern Leopard 2 tanks damaged in the Ukraine war will be repaired in Germany.

Even the world's best players are not immune to crippling nerves as Iga Świątek discovered when her Wimbledon dreams were turned to dust in a 7-5 6-7(5) 6-2 quarter-final defeat by Ukrainian wildcard Elina Svitolina on Tuesday.

In a vote on Tuesday (July 11), the European Parliament adopted a resolution criticizing Poland's decision to launch a commission to investigate Russian influence, known as "Lex Tusk", and the country's amendment to the electoral code.

Poland and Ukraine will never be fully reconciled until all Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War Two have been found and laid to rest, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday (July 11) as he marked the anniversary of the Volhynia massacres.

Poland's State Assets Minister Jacek Sasin on Tuesday (July 11) was asked by the TVN24 reporter Radomir Wit about the ancient sword he had bestowed upon Father Tadeusz Rydzyk on Sunday. The minister explained the sword would be included in the collection of a museum Rydzyk is planning to open this year. The reporter remarked the museum would be opened only after the parliamentary election, to which Sasin replied: "But would like to open a museum with empty walls?".

Poland's Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak announced on Monday (July 10) the first two South Korean FA-50 light combat aircraft were already in Poland. The minister added on Twitter the jets would "strengthen the Air Force potential".

Polish president Andrzej Duda arrived in Vilnius on Monday (July 10) ahead of a two-day NATO summit on July 11-12. Before leaving for Lithuania, the president had said Poland wanted NATO to discuss extending its Cold War-era oil pipeline system further east. "This is the very moment we have been waiting for - we may openly say - for months," Duda added.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic was temporarily knocked off course by big-serving Pole Hubert Hurkacz but quickly got back in the groove on Monday to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda announced at a briefing before the NATO summit in Vilnius that "Warsaw will send a strong signal". "A signal that Russian policy based on threats of nuclear escalation against NATO countries cannot remain unanswered," he explained. NATO leaders will meet in Vilnius on July 11-12 to tackle a wide range of topics, from divisions over Ukraine's membership bid and Sweden's accession to boosting ammunitions stockpiles and reviewing the first defence plans in decades.

Poland has detained another member of a Russian spy network, bringing the total number of people rounded up in an investigation to 15, the interior minister said on Monday.

The Ukrainian and Polish presidents jointly marked the anniversary on Sunday of World War Two-era massacres of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists, killings that have caused tension for generations between countries that are now close allies.

Iga Świątek's Wimbledon dream was hanging by the thinnest of threads as she faced two match points against Belinda Bencic but the world number one came through the toughest of tests to reach her first quarter-final at the grasscourt Grand Slam on Sunday. Next up for Świątek will be Ukraine's Elina Svitolina.

"What's crucial for us is further strengthening of the NATO eastern flank, further adaption of NATO to current challenges and continuation of defence and deterrence of Russia," Polish president's aide Marcin Przydacz said on Friday (July 7), after the talks with the U.S. national security advisor to President Joe Biden - Jake Sullivan. According to Przydacz, some decisions regarding the conditions for Ukraine's NATO accession have been already made.

Top seed Iga Świątek kept her Wimbledon campaign on track with a 6-2 7-5 defeat of Croatia's Petra Martic on Friday as she reached the fourth round without dropping a set.