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Poland has detained two Russian citizens who were «distributing propaganda materials of the Wagner Group» in Warsaw and Krakow, the two biggest Polish cities, the interior minister said Monday. «Both were charged with… espionage and arrested,» Mariusz Kaminski said on X, the former Twitter, without providing further details about the detained men.

Poland's defense minister said on Thursday that the country intends to put 10,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus. The statement comes as Warsaw worries about the presence of Russian-linked mercenaries in Belarus and migrants trying to cross the border. Meanwhile, the Polish military announced that it was carrying out a search in the area near the border with Belarus for fuse lost from a missile, but said it poses no threat because “the detonator has built-in protections.” It said the fuse was lost during «intensive activities using specialized equipment to ensure security.” “On Tuesday, after the end of combat flights, one of the helicopters carrying out a patrol in the border area was found to have no fuse in one of the missiles.

WARSAW (Reuters) — A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday.

By Mark Trevelyan and Felix Light

Vladimir Putin said Ukraine's counteroffensive «has failed» as he hosted Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, his close ally, for talks in St Petersburg on Sunday. «There is no counteroffensive,» Russian news agencies quoted Lukashenko as saying.Putin replied: «It exists, but it has failed.» Ukraine began its long-anticipated counter-offensive last month but has so far made only small gains against well entrenched Russian forces who control more than a sixth of its territory after nearly 17 months of war.

Russian tennis player Vera Zvonareva was blocked from entering Poland for reasons of state security and public safety, the Polish interior ministry said on Saturday. The 38-year-old, a bronze medallist at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, was on the list of players of the BNP Paribas Warsaw Open tournament starting on Monday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused NATO member Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union, and said any aggression against Russia's neighbour and close ally Belarus would be considered an attack on Russia.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) — Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday renewed an attack on the European Union for conducting what he called an «LGBTQ offensive», saying his nationalist government would protect the country's Christian roots.

(Reuters) -Fighters from the Wagner group have arrived in Belarus from Russia, Ukrainian and Polish officials said on Saturday, a day after Minsk said the mercenaries were training the country's soldiers southeast of the capital.

Less than six months after it began operating, Bonza says it will cut five routes from its schedule while it waits for new planes to arrive after they finish operating in the northern hemisphere summer later this year.

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Poland has decided to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine as part of an international coalition, the Polish president said on Wednesday, as Warsaw seeks to play a leading role in reaching a consensus among Western allies on such support.

Germany has rejected Warsaw's request to enter into talks on compensating Poland for damage caused during World War Two, the Polish Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday.

The number of crypto ATM machines in Australia has hit new highs over the past four months, surpassing El Salvador, the country where bitcoin (BTC) is legal tender. What's more, two other countries overtook El Salvador: Spain and Poland. 

France's armed forces minister promised more military support for Kyiv on Wednesday, during his first visit to the country. 

Poland's police chief Jarosław Szymczyk has been hospitalised with minor injuries after a gift he received from Ukraine exploded.

Eastern and Central Europe's arms industry is churning out guns, ammunition, and other military supplies at a pace not seen since the Cold War as governments aim to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

Germany has offered Warsaw the Patriot missile defence system to help it to secure its airspace, after a stray missile crashed in Poland last week, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht told a newspaper on Sunday.

A women's rights group in Poland on Monday urged people to demonstrate after the country's ruling party leader claimed that Poland's low birthrate is partly caused by young women drinking too much alcohol.

Ninety-two migrants were found almost naked and bruised after allegedly being forced across the Evros river from Turkey into Greece, Athens said Sunday.