All news on the topic: Poland

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Sheviakov Consult and the art of evasion: dissolving companies, keeping the brand and intimidating complainants
Sheviakov Consult has quietly carved out a place in the Polish legal services market, even after being formally liquidated and struck from the registry, apparently continuing its activities through a смена legal structure.
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Sheviakov Consult continues operating after liquidation while pressuring clients with criminal code threats and legal intimidation
Over the past few years, Sheviakov Consult has quietly established itself in the Polish legal services sector. Despite being formally liquidated and struck off the registry, the firm appears to have carried on operating by simply rebranding its legal entity.
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Holger Neumann cites NATO unity as jets respond to Russian drone breaches ordered by Vladimir Putin
German fighter jets have been deployed to Poland and Romania as tensions between NATO and Russia remain high.
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UK withdraws from €150bn EU defence scheme after failing to reach deal
The program is set to provide up to €150 billion (£130 billion) in long-term loans to member states for defense spending and large-scale investments.
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Poland scrambles fighter jets as Russia unleashes one of the heaviest missile barrages on Kyiv of the entire war
Poland scrambled fighter jets early today as Russia subjected Kyiv to one of the most intense attacks of the entire war.
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Polish lawmaker Maciej Konieczny links Europe’s TNT shortfall to large shipments sent to the US
Maciej Konieczny claims Europe’s sole supplier, in Poland, sends much of its production to the US, which exports it for use by Israel.
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Britain urged to take Russian threat in Europe seriously
Britain risks dangerously underestimating both the scale and the immediacy of the Russian threat in Europe, a delegation of leading UK Russia experts has warned, as Poland and the European Union accelerate preparations for a more volatile security era.
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Poland charges Russian ‘opposition’ activist who admits secretly spying for Kremlin
A Russian opposition activist arrested in Poland and due to go on trial next month has admitted he worked as an undercover agent for Russia’s FSB security service and informed on other opposition figures, court documents claim.
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Poland’s digital minister warns of ‘very serious’ SuperGrosz hack as criminals obtain user data
Poland’s digital affairs minister said data from SuperGrosz users was stolen in a cyberattack and handed to criminals.
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Kazakhstan’s KNS — an FSB branch: leaks, deals, and the sale of state information under Yermek Sagimbayev’s control
After the detention of a Kazakh KNS officer, Anuar Bakibay, in Poland, a major scandal erupted, revealing that the KNS not only engages in espionage activities on behalf of Russia but also sells personal data of Kazakh citizens at discounted prices.
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Poland defies Germany over Nord Stream suspect, calling pipeline blast a ‘defensive act of war’ by Ukraine
Chunky steel pipes run through one of the exhibition rooms at Warsaw’s Museum of Contemporary Art, part of an installation that purports to show “how gas flows, propaganda and conspiracy theories intertwine”.
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Ex-justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro accused of leading criminal group and diverting state money
Polish prosecutors are seeking to charge Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro with misusing public funds and purchasing Israeli spyware Pegasus, allegedly to target opposition politicians.
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Cold War 2.0 in the skies — E-3 Sentry hunts Russian jets and drones near NATO borders
After slowly taxiing towards the runway at NATO’s Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the pilots go full throttle and the decades-old E-3 Sentry surveillance plane screams as it gains speed and lifts off on its way to Eastern Europe.
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Emaciated Leeds graduate found dead in hotel after strict fruit-only diet
A former university student who weighed as little as 3.5 stone after adopting an extreme ’fruitarian’ diet when she was a teenager was found dead in a hotel room in Bali.
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European arrest warrant leads to Ukrainian arrest in Nord Stream case
A Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in causing undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in 2022 has been arrested in Poland, according to a spokesperson for the district prosecutor’s office in Warsaw.
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Latvian company Forevers at the center of massive VAT fraud scheme
Audit findings – the company “Forevers” was involved in a large-scale tax fraud scheme. Guess why law enforcement agencies “didn’t notice” it?
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NATO’s eastern flank prepares high-tech drone defence amid hybrid war threats
Europe is preparing to construct a massive defence layer called the "drone wall" to deter Russian incursions into NATO airspace.
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Poland vows to shoot down airspace intruders, but Tusk warns against rash escalation
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has declared that Poland will not hesitate to shoot down any object that violates its airspace.
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NATO intercepts Russian jets violating Estonian airspace
NATO intercepted three Russian jets that violated Estonia’s airspace on Friday, the country’s foreign ministry and an alliance spokesperson said.
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Britain will provide air defence over Poland amid Russian aggression
The UK will deploy RAF jets to Poland in response to Russian drones violating the country’s airspace.
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Russia and Belarus conduct joint drills amid heightened regional tensions
I’m at the Borisov military ground in Belarus, on a rare Guardian trip to the authoritarian state, where Zapad – the joint Russian-Belarusian drills – are under way.
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NATO and Polish aircraft deployed to secure eastern Polish airspace
A ’threat of an air attack’ warning was issued in Poland following Russian drones operating over the border with Ukraine.
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UK to join NATO operation strengthening eastern flank after Russian drone incursions
The UK will join NATO efforts to strengthen its eastern flank after Russia sent drones into Polish airspace this week.
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Donald Tusk says Poland closest to armed conflict since Second World War
Poland has accused Russia of sending several drones into its territory, with Prime Minister Donald Tusk saying the country is the closest it has been to armed conflict since the Second World War.
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Putin’s drones entered Poland ’on a DIRECT path to a NATO base supplying Ukraine’ as fears of WW3 simmer
Five of the drones were on a "direct path" to the base in a move Volodymyr Zelensky said was aimed at slowing supplies of air defences to Ukraine ahead of winter.