Poland & New NATOers

Poles have generously welcomed refugees from the war in neighboring Ukraine in the past few months. But absorbing more than 3 million refugees is a big challenge for Poland, which has a population of about 38 million. As Greg Flakus reports from Warsaw, other European nations are providing help, but the burden could become untenable for Poles if the war continues much longer.

Lithuania has failed to properly prepare its strategic communication to respond to Russia’s threats over the restriction of sanctioned goods’ transit to Kaliningrad, Lithuania’s European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius has said. (Russian transit train (associative image))

"The United States needs to understand that they cannot avoid the leadership role. It is high time for us to give the final blow to Russia and what it represents today," said Walesa, calling Russia "an evil country." Wałęsa says Ukraine's admission to NATO should happen 'very, very quickly'.

Poland’s democracy was fragile, and then came the war in Ukraine. In an interview, the mayor of Warsaw describes what’s at stake.

Polish and Bulgarian officials said Tuesday that Moscow is cutting off natural gas deliveries to their countries because they refuse to pay in Russian rubles, a demand made by President Vladimir Putin after sanctions were levied against his nation over the invasion of Ukraine.

It's not war, it's terrorism when soldiers are sent to murder civilians.

It is a face of war which we cannot come to terms with,

Presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia arrived in Kyiv for an official visit on April 13

Together with Slovenia and the Czech Republic, we have prepared a list of actions the EU must enforce if it really wants to end the war.

After meeting Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Saturday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday announced that Germany agrees to cut Russia off from the SWIFT system for bank transfers and that it will supply Ukraine with lethal weapons

Poland is demanding more help from Germany for Ukraine and tougher sanctions against Russia. Prime Minister Morawiecki said that Germany had to shed its “self-centeredness” and “egoism”. Several states announced arms deliveries.