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According to the Polish government, a Polish citizen has been arrested for providing intelligence to the Russian government on Ukrainian and foreign activity near the Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport in Eastern Poland. This airport is near the Polish-Ukrainian border and has been an influx point for Western aid entering Western Ukraine. The purpose of collecting this intelligence was to assassinate President...

On April 17,  Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Poland would join the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) during a cabinet meeting of the Polish government, according to Defense News.  The Polish Prime Minister also said that it does not bother him “that the Germans were the main initiators of this initiative” according to Defense News.  The ESSI was announced...

Poland has officially suspended its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). President Andrzej Duda ratified the suspension, echoing NATO's concerns over Russia's longstanding treaty violations. Established in 1990, the CFE aimed to maintain a balance of conventional military forces across Europe, from the Atlantic to the Ural mountains, to reduce the risk of conflict. However,...

On March 29, the BBC reported that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk released a statement warning European leaders and civilians alike that Europe is in a “Pre-War Era”. He added that war was “no longer a concept from the past”.  Tusk also warned that “We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the Second World War"...

Russian Ambassador Sergei Andreev declined to meet with the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to address concerns over a Russian cruise missile that reportedly breached Polish airspace on March 24. This decision followed Poland's demand for Moscow to explain what was termed "a new violation of airspace", marking it as the second airspace violation of this kind reported since 2023. The...