Hollywood actor and director Sean Penn on Wednesday (March 23) called on the American people to help Ukraine, saying that if America didn't support Ukraine with "everything we've got", they would lose sight of their values and flag.

"Everyday, some 100-300 Ukrainian citizens decide to return home and board trains bound for Lviv or Odessa," says Deputy Mayor of Przemyśl Bogusław Świeży, and adds that these people are mainly women with children who had fled their homeland after it's been attacked by Russia. They say they decide to return because Ukraine is their home. Despite the ultimate danger, they want to return to their husbands and fathers, who had to stay and defend their country.

Poland's special services asked the foreign ministry on Wednesday to expel 45 Russian diplomats, some of whom it suspects of working for Russian intelligence under the cover of diplomatic assignments, spokesman Stanisław Żaryn said.

U.S. President Joe Biden and his European counterparts will announce new sanctions against Russia and new measures to tighten existing sanctions during his trip to Brussels this week, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday.

Father Mieczysław Puzewicz from Lublin has opened the Welcome Centre for refugees from Ukraine, helps them to find temporary accomodation, and even organised a kindergarten. Currently in one of the shelters there are 19 refugees from Zaporizhia, of which 17 are deaf and 2 are blind.

About half a million refugees from Ukraine who have fled to Poland need support for mental health disorders, and 30,000 have severe mental health problems, the representative for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Poland said on Tuesday (March 22).

Sixteen migrants, including 5 children, got stuck in a swamp area close to the Polish-Belarusian border. Polish borders guards and fire service launched a successful rescue operation. The whole group was saved, but a newborn and siblings with their mother were taken to a hospital.

The search for missing Ukrainian woman named Tetyana have ended happily. The 71-year-old crossed Polish border in Medyka on February 28. The woman was travelling with her husband, but they got separated already in Ukraine. They couldn't find each other since then. After three weeks of searching, the woman has been finally located.

The crew of an Azur Air Ukraine plane have abandoned the aircraft after bringing the last group of Ukrainian refugees from Egypt to Solidarity Szczecin-Goleniów Airport in Poland. The crew members told the airport staff that they were no longer working for the carrier. If the owner does not request to get the aircraft back, it will most likely be sold.

U.S. President Joe Biden will come to Poland on Friday. Former U.S. Ambassador to Poland Daniel Fried told TVN24 that Biden's visit "is an important moment for the West and for the defence of freedom". Fried also told TVN24's Piotr Kraśko that Biden was likely to "express the solidarity of the West – the United States and Europe – to defeat Putin’s aggression, to defend freedom in Ukraine, and to not accept Putin’s diktat as fait accompli". The former ambassador added that Biden wanted to underscore "special solidarity with Poland, which is a frontline state and has accepted 2 million Ukrainian refugees with a generosity of spirit that reminds us all that human beings can rise and act according to their better angels," the former U.S. Ambassador to Poland said.

Hundreds of Ukrainians waited in front of Poland's national stadium to register for work permits on Monday as governments and businesses across central Europe sought to help refugees who have fled Russia's invasion find jobs and school places.

"The problem is that although the situation is very serious, and so were the discussed issues, our government partners were not completely serious," chairman of Civic Platform Donald Tusk said after the meeting of opposition leaders and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. In his opinion, "it's still more about politics rather than actual work for the homeland's safety".

Sunday's concert "Together with Ukraine" in Łódź Atlas Arena began the Ukraine's national anthem sang by little Amelia from Ukraine. The girl has become widely known thanks to a viral internet video in which she sings a touching song from the animated movie "Frozen", while hiding in a bunker in the besieged city of Kiev.

At today's meeting with leaders of parliamentary groups, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki will propose a package of solutions which will require changes in the constitution, government spokesperson Piotr Müller said on Monday. He added that said proposals would include removing public debt ceiling on army spending and a possiblity to confiscate assets of Russian oligarchs and state.

U.S. President Joseph Biden will travel to Poland on Friday to discuss the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine that has sparked a "humanitarian and human rights crisis," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said late Sunday.

Poland's Iga Świątek blew away Greece's Maria Sakkari 6-4 6-1 to win a windswept Indian Wells final on Sunday and move up to number two in the world rankings.

Poland's Commissioner for Human Rights, Marcin Wiącek, appeals to Ukrainians fleeing Russian aggression to also choose smaller Polish cities as their destination. Local mayors say refugees are welcome to seek shelter in their towns. They also encourage newcomers assuring them that it's much faster to sort out all the necessary formalities, and that it may be even easier to find accomodation and work than in the major cities. What's necessary to make the help for the refugees more effective? Money, charity gifts, and volunteers.

A few hundred people gathered on Friday at Warsaw's Castle Square, mainly Ukrainian women and children. They staged a protest against the Russian aggression against their country. Similar gatherings took place in other European cities that day.

Russia's hopes of competing at the 2022 World Cup were effectively ended after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected a request from the Russian Football Union to freeze FIFA's suspension while their appeal is heard.

A ship under the Russian flag, SMP Novodvinsk, left Marine Ship Repair Yard "Gryfia" in Szczecin on Thursday. In January, the vessel ran aground in Szczecin Bay and was taken to the local shipyard. It remained there also when Russia attacked Ukraine in late February. According to media reports, Ukrainian employees at "Gryfia" refused to repair the ship. The shipyard issued a statement in which it informed that Novodvinsk was halted "in accordance with the contract provisions".

Poland will take steps to sever economic ties with Moscow, the prime minister said on Friday, in a process of "de-Russification" in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Poland's upper house of parliament, the Senate, unanimously approved on Thursday a homeland defence bill, which main aim is to increase budget spending on defence, increase the number of Polish troops, re-launching of military reserve force, as well as advancing military training capabilites. The bill will now be sent to President Andrzej Duda, whose office announced he would sign it as soon as possible.

Britain will deploy its Sky Sabre missile system in Poland, its defence minister said on Thursday during a visit to Warsaw, as NATO moves to beef up the security of its eastern flank in view of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Railways ground to a halt in many places across Poland on Thursday, disrupting an important means of transport for Ukrainian refugees after what the transport minister said was a traffic control system outage impacting several countries.

Local government representatives from the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland on Wednesday met with the Mayor of Lviv Andriy Sadovyi and his associates. Polish delegation and Lviv authorities discussed ways in which Pomerania could help Ukraine, including offering hospital space in Pomeranian hospitals for the wounded, as well as providing medical equipment for Lviv hospital.

President Andrzej Duda went to Turkey's capital city of Ankara, where he spoke with the country's head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the situation in Ukraine and refugees fleeing from that country to Poland. "We can clearly state that we have a refugee crisis in our country. If we don't receive international support, we will be in a very, very difficult situation," Duda stressed at a press conference held with Erdogan.

A passenger of a number 10 tram in Warsaw wrote a letter to Trawmaje Warszawskie in which she praised the driver of the said tram for her empathy. In order to help a Ukrainian woman and her child, who got lost in Warsaw, the driver stopped the vehicle and offered them sandwiches and water.

An international peacekeeping mission should be sent to Ukraine and be given the means to defend itself, the leader of Poland's ruling PiS party, Jarosław Kaczyński, said on Tuesday after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau said on Tuesday that a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden to Poland "seems very much probable", PAP news agency reported.

"Ukraine crisis a convenient excuse for Russophobia" - Brazilian writer Paolo Coelho said on Twitter a few days ago. As a result, he faced severe criticism from many people, including Polish writer and journalist Mariusz Szczygieł who said that "sometimes a writer can be an idiot".