“This is the first time Russian drones have been shot down over the territory of a NATO country,” notes Donald Tusk.
Russia
Poland to close Belarus border amid Russian Zapad military exercises
Border crossings will close at the end of Thursday, ahead of the exercises beginning on Friday.
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Government agrees pay rise for miners to end protests over imported Russian coal
New 6% pay rises will cost the loss-making state-run Polish Mining Group 270 million zloty annually.
Poland to end import of Russian coal by state-owned firms
Poland is sluggish in reducing coal generation, as it relies heavily on Russian imports.
“Do not be indifferent”: the most powerful (and political) moments from Auschwitz commemoration
Amid the commemorations, politics was never far from the surface.
“Poles should pay us for liberating them”: Russia responds to Kaczyński’s WW2 reparations call
Kaczyński says that Poland deserves war reparations not only from Germany, but also from Russia.
Russia claims “Polish antisemitism facilitated Nazi camps and Holocaust”, EU condemns “false history”
Poland “must apologise to the whole world” for “creating fertile ground for the Holocaust”, said the State Duma speaker.
Putin’s Stalinist history
Sławomir Dębski
The Russian president’s only version of history is the Soviet one.
Poland’s president is right to boycott Auschwitz commemoration in Israel
Daniel Tilles
Whatever one thinks of the Polish government’s historical policy, Poland must be properly represented.
Tusk: some in Poland’s ruling party “consciously” help Putin, others are “useful idiots”
Some in PiS are “conscious allies” in Putin’s “project to disintegrate the EU and Nato”, says Tusk.
Putin blames Poland for WWII and says Soviet occupation “saved lives”
The Polish government has accused Putin of reviving “Stalinist propaganda”.
United States seeking to export gas to Ukraine via Poland: report
The efforts relate not only to trade policy, but also to the impeachment proceedings Donald Trump is facing, reports the Daily Beast.
Less gas, more coal: Poland’s contradictory approach to Russian energy imports
Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska and Michał Potocki
Poland is freeing itself from Russia’s gas, but becoming more dependent on its coal
Poland to halt permanent import of Russian gas from 2023
PGNiG officially notified Russia’s Gazprom of the termination of the contract forcing Poland to import a permanent quantity of Russian gas yearly, in an attempt to diversify the country’s energy supply.
