Polish government has put forward a draft relief package for mortgage borrowers, aimed at supporting them in paying their monthly installments amid the increasing interest rates. "Today at the Council of Ministers we've proposed new solutions," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday, adding that the package would now be referred to public consultation.

U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski gave a lecture at the University of Warsaw on Monday (May 9), in which he praised Poland for providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine. "Thanks to you, Poland is seen as a humanitarian superpower. I am proud to be a U.S. Ambassador to a humanitarian superpower," Brzezinski said.

Grand larceny in the village of Chyby (Greater Poland Voivodeship). An antique bell has been stolen out of the belfry at the local church. Poznań Police are on the case, while the parson calls on anyone who has "recently noticed anything suspicious" to come forward.

The Russian ambassador to Poland was doused in a red substance on Monday by people protesting against the war in Ukraine as he went to lay flowers at the Soviet Military Cemetery in Warsaw to mark the 77th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.

A woman was driving the wrong way on the A1 highway between Bytom and Zabrze Północ junctions (Silesian Voivodeship). This dangerous incident was caught on dashcam of another car, whose driver then sent the footage to Kontakt24. The police said the detained 64-year-old woman had been driving under influence of alcohol.

Poland advocates the farthest-reaching sanctions against Russia, because Putin can be defeated either economically or militarily, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday (May 9).

The Monetary Policy Council will keep on raising interest rates until it is certain that inflation is on a permanent decrease, Poland's central bank chief Adam Glapiński said at a press conference on Friday. The Council had increased the interest rates yet again on Thursday, in an attempt to curb inflation which recently has been at highest levels in decades.

"I have confirmed the purchase of Gladius unmanned drone systems. It is a cutting-edge equipment that will increase Poland's security," Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said on Friday. Under the contract, Poland will receive four battery-powered modules of unmanned search and strike systems.

It was born on April 8 and has been clinging to its mother ever since. "lt's almost treading on her hooves," Wrocław Zoo said presenting its newborn resident - a female golden takin. The zoological garden is one of the 13 zoos worldwide which breed these animals. This is yet another little takin born in the capital of Lower Silesia.

Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced on Friday that Poland would lift the state of epidemic on May 16, which from then on would be lowered to the state of epidemic danger.

Ukraine needs a fast path to the European Union with practical steps, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a video address to an international donors' conference in Warsaw on Thursday (May 5).

Poland's Monetary Policy Council has decided to raise the NBP interest rates yet again, this time by 0.75 percentage points. The move is meant to curb the effects of high inflation. This has been the eight increase of the rates in a row.

An international donors conference in Warsaw on Thursday collecting funds for Ukraine raised around $6.5 billion, Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.

A desolate skyscraper in downtown Warsaw has now become home to 222 refugees from Ukraine, including 93 children. "During the long May weekend there was a shortage of basic products. If anyone wants to help than they are very welcome," volunteer worker Maria Kordalewska told TVN24.

Natalia and Mykola were returning home from work when they saw that someone threw a bag out of the window. They picked the bag up and took it home. When they realised that the bag contained money and jewellery, the Ukrainian citizens decided to notify the police. They could not do it over the phone due to the language barrier. Mykola decided to approach a police car parked next to their building. It turned out that the officers were speaking with senior citizens who had thrown the bag out of the window.

Thier ages are between 2 and 12 years old, some of them required medical help. A group of children without caregivers, who crossed the Ukrainian-Polish border only a few days ago, have been already sent to families abroad and will stay there at least by the end of the war. "Among them are children of army members who are fighting for our country, and therefore we cannot reveal details," says Tetyana, a volunteer worker who has been helping Ukrainian refugees since the start of the war.

This year's long May weekend ended in tragedy for many drivers. The traffic police recorded 302 accidents and 24 deaths. This is more than over the same period last year, said Robert Opas of the Traffic Department of the National Police Headquarters.

Actress, movie producer and activist Trudie Styler, in private life the wife of British singer Sting, on Monday (May 2) visited the Help Ukraine Center in Lublin, where she met with volunteers and Ukrainian families. She spoke, among other things, about positive things that can happen even in terrible times like these, and stressed that she and her husband wanted to be useful and helpful.

A TVN24 reporter has located the owner of a car pierced by shrapnels from a Russian missile. The vehicle, which Oleksandr and his family used to escape from Mariupol, is parked in Warsaw's Grochów district. "There's nothing to return to anymore," the man says.

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Monday (May 2) at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. She then laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and met with her Polish counterpart, Speaker of the Sejm Elżbieta Witek.

To mark the May 2 National Flag Day, the biggest flag in Poland has been raised at the lighthouse in the northwestern town of Świnoujście (West Pomeranian Voivodeship). The banner has a surface of 500 square metres and can be seen from a distance as big as dozen kilometres.

On Thursday, several towns across Poland had their gas supplies cut by the Russian-owned supplier hit by sanctions.

Fighter jets from six countries, including Poland, were scrambled in response to Russian aircraft close to NATO air space, the Air Command of the Alliance informed on social media. Some of the incidents took place above the Baltic Sea.

"Poland is doing all it can to ensure that those of us who have left (Ukraine) feel not like refugees, but like people forced to leave their land by this ongoing tragedy," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday at a press conference for Polish media. He also thanked Poland and the Polish people for an "unprecedented support", and assured that Ukraine and Poland would stand shoulder to shoulder in the face of danger.

Poland is ready to guard Slovakia's air space when its MiG-29 jets are grounded, defence ministers of the two NATO member countries said on Friday, opening the way for a possible delivery of the Soviet-made planes to Ukraine.

The Foreign Ministers of the Baltics and Poland held a joint news conference on Friday (April 29) in Riga, following the halt of Russian gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria for refusing to pay for gas in roubles and Ukraine's pleas for the delivery of heavy weapons. The ministers also said that NATO should increase its presence in the region.

Polish Border Guard informed on Friday that more than 3 million people from Ukraine have crossed the Polish border since the first day of Russia's attack on Ukraine (Feb.24). The institution added that 924,000 people have crossed the border in the opposite direction.

After a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 March of the Living took was held on Thursday in the former Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish President Andrzej Duda was among the participants.

Preparing for success is as important as learning to deal with setbacks and it has helped Iga Świątek seamlessly establish herself as the new world number one with a 23-match winning run, the Pole's sports psychologist Daria Abramowicz told Reuters.

Polish air traffic controllers have reached a deal with the government that means they will keep working until July 10, a union representative said on Thursday, averting mass flight cancellations that could have started from May 1.