Inflation in September this year rose at a 17.2% annual pace, according to a flash estimate released on Friday (September 30) by the Central Statistical Office of Poland (Statistics Poland). The barrier of 17% has been crossed for the first time since February, 1997. Experts projected consumer prices to increase by 16.5% year on year.

Michał Dworczyk announced on Friday (September 30) he resigned as chief of prime minister's chancellery. "I'd like to thank Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, PiS leadership and all KPRM employees" - he said on social media.

"The Congress of the United States has approved $288.6 Million in Foreign Military Financing for Poland" - U.S. Embassy in Poland announced on Thursday (September 29). According to a statement published on the embassy's website, "Poland has delivered extraordinary support to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s further invasion. These funds will speed the backfill of capabilities Poland has been able to provide from its own stocks to add to Ukraine’s defense, including main battle Tanks".

"The predominant conviction in this discourse, which is mainly run by the media, boils down to that the Russians might have had an interest in committing such a deed," Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau said in an interview for Fakty TVN reporter Marcin Wrona. The minister was referring to the still-unexplained circumstances of the recent sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines on the Baltic Sea.

"President Putin and Gazprom’s decision some weeks ago to restrict or shut down Nord Stream 1 ripped off the band-aid. It told us that we couldn’t expect Russian oil and gas in that sense, and so we’d have to find some other way," CNN journalist Richard Quest said in an interview for TVN24's Michał Sznajder. In his view, Europe should expect "blackouts" and prepare for "energy sharing or rationing". "All of these things will affect Europeans and will help to push the European economy into recession," Quest warned.

Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Poland on Wednesday, vowing to fight hatred and discrimination and keep the story of what took place there between 1940-1945 alive.

The Sejm Deputies' Ethics Committee on Wednesday (September 28) reprimanded PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński for his derogatory comments on LGBTQ+ people he had made this summer.

Poland will spend 26.8 billion zlotys ($5.35 billion) on support for households as energy costs soar following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the government said in the justification of a bill published on Wednesday.

A Łódź repertory cinema - Kino Bodo - will cease to operate in November due to a threefold increase in heating and electricity bills. "The first thing people cut down on when faced with tight home budget is, unfotunately, culture. And so a small cinema like ours is not able to survive," says the owner of the place, Wojciech Wojtysiak.

The European Commission has deducted another - sixth - tranche from funds earmarked for Poland. This is yet another financial penalty for the country's non-compliance with the ruling issued by EU's highest court, which ordered Warsaw to immediately suspend law provisions regulating the functioning of the contested Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court. This time, the Commission deducted 33 million euro, which is approximately 157 million zlotys.

Two people were killed in a blaze that erupted in a furnace at PKN Orlen production facility in Płock on Tuesday (September 27). The company said the fire was extinguished soon and called up a special commission to investigate what caused the tragic accident. The police and prosecutors' office are also looking into the matter.

President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen symbolically opened the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline on Tuesday (September 27) by turning a valve at the gas compressor station in Goleniów, northwestern Poland. Gas from the Norwegian continental shelf will flow to Poland starting October 1. The Baltic Pipe Project is one of Poland's flagship investments meant to end the country's energy dependence from Russia and ensure its energy security.

A 17-year-old girl wrote words of support for the LGBTQ+ community and critical of the Church. She did that on the pavement in front of a church in Toruń, using a yellow chalk. Shortly after a police patrol arrived and handcuffed the girl. The incident has been captured in a camera recording. A left-wing MP Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus demanded explanations from the police.

Concerts by Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters were cancelled by a venue in the Polish city of Kraków, organisers said on Sunday, after the artist's comments on the war in Ukraine caused a storm of criticism.

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki congratulated Italy's Giorgia Meloni - and the right-wing coalition she is a leader of - on winning Sunday's parliamentary elections.

A declaration to finance the conservation of some 8,000 children's shoes in the Memorial Collections has been signed by the Auschwitz Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and the International March of the Living. The shoes are a moving symbol of the suffering of the youngest victims of the German Nazi camp. "It's so hard for me to look at these shoes. I see them and think maybe my twin sisters' shoes are here too," said a Holocaust survivor Arye Pinsker.

A Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor - Edward Mosberg - died on Thursday at the age of 96. He was strongy involved in promoting of Polish-Jewish dialogue. The information about Mr Mosberg's passing was announced on social media by Poland's Consul General in New York Adrian Kubicki. "Mr. Edward Mosberg passed away tonight, the most wonderful man I have ever met. He was a Holocaust Survivor, noble man and a great Polish patriot, full of energy to the very end of his 96 years of life. My personal mentor. Irreplaceable. Please pray for him and his family" - Kubicki wrote on Twitter.

In an interview for "Fakty" TVN reporter Marcin Wrona, President Andrzej Duda spoke about U.S. President Joe Biden's United Nations address and his country's policy on the war in Ukraine. Biden accused Russia on Wednesday of making "reckless" and "irresponsible" threats to use nuclear weapons and said Moscow had violated the core tenets of United Nations membership by invading Ukraine. According to Duda, Biden maintained a "very tough, decisive, yet very composed line" in that regard. Polish president also commented on the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons.

Russia will attempt to destroy Ukraine and change its borders, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday commenting on a partial mobilization announced by Moscow.

Poland's distinguished journalist, columnist and sports commentator - Tomasz Wołek - has died at the age of 74. His family has confirmed the information about his passing to TOK FM radio, of which Wołek was a long-time associate.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine dominated the Polish president's address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday (September 20), in which he said that the war in Ukraine "must be lost by the aggressor. "And the aggressor in this very case is - let me reiterate it once again - the Russian state," Duda stressed. While the conflict has garnered much attention since it began earlier this year, it is naturally of special significance to Poland, which shares a border with Ukraine.

"As you’ve heard president Biden say on many, many occasions, the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory. Poland is a NATO Article 5 country," United States Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Alexander Milley told TVN24 BiS reporter Jan Niedziałek. He added that when it comes to the war in Ukraine, "Russia's stretegic plan has failed" and "the strategic initiative has shifted to the Ukrainians".

Inflation in Poland in August 2022 was 14.8% year on year - Eurostat informed on Friday (September 16). This one of highest increases of consumer prices in the European Union. The highest inflation was recorded in Estonia and Latvia, whereas the lowest - in France and Malta.

Polish refiner PKN Orlen is interested in taking a controlling stake in the PCK Schwedt refinery that Germany has placed under a trusteeship, effectively removing control from Russia's Rosneft, sources in Berlin and Warsaw familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. 

Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak signed a deal on Friday (September 16) to purchase 48 South Korean FA-50 fighter jets for Polish Armed Forces. "New perspectives are opening before Polish Armed Forces; it's a generational leap," Błaszczak said. The FA-50 is a light combat aircraft developed by Korea Aerospace Industries with Lockheed Martin.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors on Thursday passed a resolution demanding that Russia end its occupation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The resolution was proposed by Canada and Poland on behalf of Ukraine, which is not on the Board - the IAEA's top policy-making body that meets more than once a year.

Measures aimed at freezing power prices for households and providing support for energy intensive companies will cost Poland over 30 billion zlotys ($6.35 billion), Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday.

Polish Football Association on Thursday (September 15) unveiled the official national team kits for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Poland's Health Minister Adam Niedzielski announced on Thursday that - starting Friday (September 16) - Poland would launch second COVID-19 booster shots for all people aged 12+, who had already received basic vaccination and first booster shots.

Inflation in August was 16.1% year on year - Poland's Central Statistical Office (Statistics Poland) announced on Thursday (Septemeber 15). Consumer prices have increased by more than 16% for the first time since March, 1997.