By Thursday afternoon, Ukrainian refugees who have relatives in the UK had submitted 35,500 visa applications, of which 20,100 had already received visas, the UK Home Office said yesterday.more
We will increase our support for Ukraine, tighten sanctions and free ourselves from Russian fossil fuels, said the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen yesterday at the press conference following the EU summit in Brussels.more
The British government yesterday clarified the content of sanctions on Russia's central bank, its finance ministry and its sovereign wealth fund, explaining that the ban on transactions with them also applies to gold.more
The president of the Union of Poles in Belarus, Angelika Borys, has been released from a Belarusian prison, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina said yesterday. The deputy head of the ministry, Marcin Przydacz, said that Borys is feeling quite well and at the moment needs rest and recuperation.more
"Together with Slovenia and the Czech Republic, we have prepared a list of actions the EU must take if it really wants to end the war," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki writes in "Politico", presenting a 10-point plan to save Ukraine.more
Polina Kovaleva, the British-sanctioned 26-year-old stepdaughter of Russian Foreign Ministry chief Sergei Lavrov, has a flat in central London that she bought for £4.4 million in 2016 without credit, while still a student at the time, British media wrote today.more
US President Joe Biden's visit to Poland will be historic, marking the culmination of intensifying Polish-American relations in recent weeks. Talks with Biden will focus on security issues, Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz said today.more
The actions of their own government in March were negatively assessed by as many as 6 out of 10 (60%) Poles, and positive - by 28% - according to the Kantar Public survey.more
The White House announced a new humanitarian aid package to Ukraine and other war-stricken nations worth more than $ 1 billion and a plan to accommodate up to $ 100,000 in the US. refugees from Ukraine. The US administration is to allocate an additional $ 320 million to strengthening democracy and human rights in the countries of the region.more
The leaders of the ranking of Poles' trust in politicians again in a row are President Andrzej Duda, the leader of Poland 2050 Szymon Hołownia and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki - according to a CBOS poll. In the ranking of distrust, the first places are occupied by: Deputy Prime Minister, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński, PO leader Donald Tusk and the head of the Ministry of Justice, Zbigniew more
The UK and its allies will be at NATO and G7 summits to consider how to increase pressure on Putin, including whether he can be cut off from gold reserves, Boris Johnson said this morning. On the same day, restrictions on Russia were tightened, imposing sanctions on new people and entities.more
French companies must leave the Russian market, Auchan, Leroy Merlin, Renault must stop being sponsors of Russia's war machine, they must stop financing the murder of women and children - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski said yesterday before the French parliament. Values are more important than profits, he stressed.more
At the beginning of March, 27 percent. Poles believed that the situation in their country was going in the right direction, and 55 percent. was the opposite. 18 percent did not have an opinion on this subject. - results from the CBOS poll.more
The Internal Security Agency has applied to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the expulsion of 45 people who, under so-called diplomatic cover, have been conducting intelligence activities in Poland, the spokesman for the minister coordinating special services, Stanisław Żaryn, said today. more
51 percent of the respondents believe that Russia will not be able to cope with the sanctions imposed by Western countries; 27 percent claims to be able to survive them; 73 percent for increasing sanctions, also in the field of energy - according to the Social Changes survey for wpolityce.pl.more
On Tuesday, the new ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Great Britain, Piotr Wilczek, presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Although the ceremony, as is the case recently, was held remotely, the entire ceremonial was preserved.more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Council President Charles Michel agree that Britain and the European Union should continue to work closely together in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Johnson's office said yesterday.more
The US ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, was summoned to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, the Russian diplomacy ministry informed in a press release on its website. The American ambassador was told that the current tensions were bringing relations between Moscow and Washington on the brink of severance.more
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, in an interview with CNN, ruled out the participation of American forces in the NATO peacekeeping mission in Ukraine proposed by Poland. Washington stressed that Washington did not want an escalation of tensions that would "lead to a war with the United States."more
The Russian state was responsible for hoax calls to Ben Wallace and Priti Patel, pretending to be the Ukrainian prime minister, Downing Street has said. In its first statement attributing blame for the video calls, No 10 said it believed Russian state actors were responsible, without giving more details on who linked to the Kremlin had been identified as being behind the attempts.more
Dictators always escalate demands, and the West continues to yield. But this time we have a problem: Ukraine does not want to yield. Ukraine does not belong to Putin, stop treating it this way, former world chess champion and politician of Armenian-Jewish origin, Garri Kasparov, wrote on Twitter today.more
US President Joe Biden will visit Warsaw on Friday and then meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Saturday, the White House reported tonight. Topics of conversation will include the humanitarian crisis caused by Russian aggression in Ukraine.more
It was Poland that was right to warn against Russia, which the West did not want to listen to, and it is not a deviation from Western values, as France and Germany claimed, but a defender of them, writes the British newspaper The Sunday Times in a report from Przemyśl.more
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gliński expressed doubts as to whether modern Europe is ready for an armed conflict. more