3 days ago · Seeing that Russia may not stop at Ukraine, Warsaw has begun to ramp up its military spending. That has included adopting the American-made M1 Abrams and South Korean K2 Black Panther main battle ...

Nov 21, 2024 · Russia's Foreign Ministry has condemned the opening of a US missile defence base in Poland, labelling it a provocation and threatening a possible strike against the facility. In response,...

After the fall of Kościuszko Uprising, The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was finally divided between the three neighbors (the 3rd partition, 1795): Russia, Prussia and Austria. Warsaw found itself in the Prussian part and became the capital of South Prussia.

Nov 25, 2024 · Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European governments have expelled more than 700 Russian spies posing as diplomats. In response, the Kremlin has turned to recruiting so-called disposable agents, sometimes via Telegram channels.

Jan 15, 2025 · Power cuts swept much of Ukraine as Mr Zelenskiy arrived in Warsaw to meet Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, for what a top aide to the Ukrainian leader said would be talks on “war, weapons ...

The Warsaw Pact (WP), [d] formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), [e] was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.

As of August 2022, Warsaw had received around 180,000 refugees from Ukraine, because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The amount means a tenth of the Polish capital's population of 1.8 million — the second-largest single group of Ukrainian refugees.

May 21, 2023 · Russia's top lawmaker on Sunday called for a ban on Polish trucks transiting Russian territory and for Poland to compensate Moscow financially for what he said was the Soviet rebuilding of...

Feb 21, 2023 · Having been proved right about Russia, Warsaw is savoring its newfound influence in NATO and on Ukraine policy. President Biden, who praised Poland on Tuesday as “critical” in the West’s response...

Sep 21, 2023 · Warsaw has claimed the Ukrainian Insurgent Army that sided with Nazi Berlin to expel Russians from Ukraine killed up to 100,000 ethnic Poles and considers their massacre “genocide”.