Canada said on Tuesday it will send 40 more combat engineers to help support Polish efforts to train Ukrainian forces, as part of its commitment to increasing military aid for Ukraine.

Hundreds of people protested outside the Russian embassy in Warsaw on Monday, calling for Russia to be designated a terrorist state and for its diplomats to be expelled after missile strikes killed at least 11 people in Ukrainian cities.

Polish citizens in Belarus should leave the country, Warsaw said on Monday, as relations between the two countries become increasingly tense in part due to the war in Ukraine.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg held urgent consultations on Monday (October 10) regarding the Russian bombardment of civilian targets in Ukraine - Polish president's office informed. NATO chief said in a tweet he and Duda discussed "continued support from NATO Allies to Ukraine" and thanked the Polish leader for his country's "key contributions" in that regard. Earlier that day, Duda had also spoken with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy. "We discussed the necessity to isolate Russia, which today had committed mass war crime," he wrote.

Two border crossings between Poland and Ukraine experienced power cuts on the Ukrainian side, but electricity had been restored by early afternoon, a spokesperson for Poland's border guard said after Russia struck cities across Ukraine on Monday.

Mayors and local governors from all over Poland on Friday (October 7) staged a protest in Warsaw against spiking energy prices. They argued that their cities and towns were in "an uneven fight" against companies owned by the State Treasury, and demanded the Speaker of the Sejm launched an "urgent intervention, which will begin a process of stabilisation on the electric energy market".

"The United States has no plans to deploy a nuclear weapon on NATO member territory that had joined NATO post-1997," U.S. Department of State spokesperson Vedant Patel said when asked about an interview in which Poland's President Andrzej Duda had mentioned his country's potential participation in the NATO nuclear sharing policy.

Germany must stay united with European partners on energy policy, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday (October 7) as he arrived for the second day of a European Union summit in Prague.

In Trzebież Forest Inspectorate - located in northwestern Poland - demand for firewood is much higher than last year. Local foresters remind, however, the wood purchased this year will only be ready to use next year.

President Alexander Lukashenko's regime has placed journalist and Union of Poles in Belarus's activist Andrzej Poczobut on its "list of terrorists" - Belarusian Viasna Human Rights Centre informed on Thursday (October 6). Poczobut remains in detention since March, 2021.

Poland's prime minister has raised the country's security level on energy infrastructure outside its borders, the government's security center said on Thursday.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday (October 6) issued its ruling in the case of Polish judge Paweł Juszczyszyn. According to the verdict, three articles of the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated by the now-dissolved Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland: right to a fair trial, right to respect for private and family life, and limitation on use of restrictions of rights. Furthermore, the high court said the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court had not been an independent and impartial tribunal established by law.

Vladimir Putin is using energy as a weapon, he's trying to divide us, he's trying to put false narrative and propaganda on what causes this energy crisis, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johannson said on Wednesday at the Warsaw Security Forum 2022 conference. "He wants to destroy the European Union - we should not be naive," she added. The Commissioner also listed the crucial issues the European Union has to deal with in order to keep itself safe.

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on Wednesday (October 5) for regional leaders to put Belarus on top of international meetings.

In his speech at Warsaw Security Forum, U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski reassured that the United States was committed to ensuring Poland's military safety, as well as security in broader terms, including energy and democracy. President & Managing Director Warner Bros. Discovery Poland Kasia Kieli also took part in Wednesday's panel.

Poland's Monetary Policy Council announced in a statement on Wednesday (October 5) it decided to leave the NBP interest rates on the same level as last month. This has been first such decision since October, 2021, when the series of interest rates increases began. Most experts were predicting another increase by 25 basis points. The main, reference rate has been set at 6.75%.

According to the latest, revised data, Poland's economy increased by 6.8% in 2021 - the country's Central Statistical Office (Statistics Poland) informed on Wednesday (October 5). In April, the agency reported that Poland's GDP had increased by 5.9% in 2021.

"The worst thing is the children rarely see their dad, they are with virtually all of the time. But I'm sure that this separation will only strengthen our relation," Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska said in an interview for "Dzień Dobry TVN". She underscored she felt "wonderful" in Poland.

"I doubt that our, Belarusian army will participate alongside Russian army, because first of all, there are no anti-Ukrainian moods among our army, and secondly, our army is not experienced, we don’t have anything to fight with," Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told TVN24 on Tuesday during Warsaw Security Forum. She added that "any mobilisation of Belarusian people will be a political suicide for Lukashenka".

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister of Poland Mariusz Błaszczak handed soldiers of the 18th Anti-Aircraft Regiment the certificates attesting that they had completed a course on operating the "Small Narew" system elements. "We are finalising another stage of Polish-British cooperation, which means strengthening of Polish Armed Forces, as well as of the resilience of the whole eastern flank," he said during the official ceremony in Zamość. The event was also attended by British Secretary of Defence Ben Wallace, who said: "As we face the threat from Russia, we need the equipment and the capabilities to safeguard our people and preserve European stability".

Former commander of U.S. European Command - General Philip M. Breedlove - spoke with TVN24 reporter Jan Niedziałek on Tuesday during Warsaw Security Summit held in Poland's capital city. "I believe Ukraine will continue to push Russia out of Ukrainian lands," the general said, adding that "that could even include Crimea".

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is doing everything he can tp break the West's cohesion, former commander of United States Army Europe, General Ben Hodges told TVN24 on Tuesday. "That's not gonna happen," he said, adding that "Ukraine is going to continue to defeat Russian forces". Furthermore, in his opinion, "Ukraine has achieved irreversible momentum".

The Polish economy may grow at 1.6 percent next year when compared to 4.0 percent anticipated for 2022 and 3.6 percent forecasted in the previous edition of the report published in spring - according to the latest annual report published on Tuesday (October 4) by the World Bank. The slowdown is to be mainly affected by the war in Ukraine. "The global economy continues to be weakened by the war through significant disruptions in trade and food and fuel price shocks," says the report.

Poland believes that Germany can be convinced to change its position on World War Two reparations, the foreign minister said on Tuesday (October 4), even as his German counterpart reiterated at a joint news conference that for Berlin the issue was closed.

"We're entering the next 25 years stronger than ever before, because we're doing it as Warner Bros. Discovery. This opens completely new opportunities for us" - President & Managing Director Warner Bros. Discovery Poland and TVN CEO Kasia Kieli said on Monday morning in TVN24. She also expressed her gratitude to the viewers. "They are incredible, we can feel their sympathy for us, their support in every step we take, they are behind us also when times get tough," Kieli stressed.

Iga Świątek will not play for Poland in next month's Billie Jean King Cup finals in Glasgow, the world number one said on Monday as she took issue with the sport's governing bodies and their handling of the tournament calendar.

Russia's Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev was summoned to Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday (October 3). The ministry expressed Poland's standpoint regarding the pseudo-referenda carried by Russian occupiers in four regions of Ukraine and attempts to incorporate part of this country's territory into Russia. Polish MFA spokesperson Łukasz Jasina spoke to reporters after Andreev's visit. "We have summoned Mr Ambassdor to express our standpoint regarding President Vladimir Putin's illegal decisions (and) the also illegal annexation of Ukraine's territories," he stressed.

The Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau has signed a diplomatic note to Germany concerning reparations for World War Two, he said on Monday, formalising Poland's demand for compensation.

Today's desperate action by the Kremlin is a defeat for those who naively believed in a compromise with Russia, Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on social media on Friday (September 30), in response to Russia's annexation of four regions of Ukraine. Poland's Foreign Ministry also issued a statement in that regard, saying that "Russia seeks escalation of the conflict and rejects its peaceful settlement".