Poland

May 11, 2022, 2:23 pm

Polish editor, a former dissident, wins top Spanish award

Adam Michnik is known for his role in Poland’s Solidarity pro-democracy movement; was imprisoned in 1980s for efforts to end country’s communist rule

By AP

Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev is covered with red paint in Warsaw, Poland, May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Maciek Luczniewski)

May 9, 2022, 3:04 pm

Anti-war activists throw red paint at Russian ambassador to Poland

During Victory Day at Soviet Soldiers Cemetery in Warsaw, protesters prevent envoy and others from laying flowers on graves

By AP

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Szmyhal, center, talks to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, left, and Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin, 2nd left, at the High-Level International Donor's Conference for Ukraine at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on May 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

May 5, 2022, 5:23 pm

International donors conference for Ukraine raises $6.5 billion

Ukraine needs over 12,000 tons of humanitarian aid every day, says Polish PM Morawiecki; Google, COVID-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca join nations in pledging aid

By Vanessa Gera

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, right, and Auschwitz Survivor from US Edward Mosberg, attend the March of the Living annual observance that was not held for two years due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, in Oswiecim, Poland, on April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

April 28, 2022, 9:55 pm

At March of the Living, Polish president ties Holocaust atrocities to war in Ukraine

Duda joins more than 2,000 young Israelis and others at remembrance event in Poland; ‘We will never again allow something like this to happen,’ he says

By AP

In this Monday, Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, Gwyneth Paltrow arrives at the 26th annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Celebration in Los Angeles (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, file)

April 22, 2022, 6:57 pm

Gwyneth Paltrow funds historical signboard at Jewish ancestors’ cemetery in Poland

Actress’s great-great-grandfather immigrated from Eastern Europe to the United States

By JTA

Servicemen of Ukraine's Azov Battalion pray in the Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 11, 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

April 16, 2022, 1:03 am

Polish journalist quits after paper rejects ‘neo-Nazi’ term for Ukrainian militia

‘If we cannot come to an agreement on the essentials, we will have to part ways,’ he says of decision on Azov Battalion

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ukrainians carrying their belongings line up to enter in Poland as they flee their country crossing the Medyka border, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

April 15, 2022, 6:13 pm

Over 5 million have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion, UN says

World body says more than 4.7 million Ukrainians and another 215,000 foreign nationals have fled to neighboring countries since war began; nearly 24,000 in Israel

By Robin MILLARD

Men wearing protective gear exhume the bodies of civilians killed during the Russian occupation in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

April 13, 2022, 9:12 pm

Polish, Baltic presidents visit Ukraine in ‘strong message’ of support

Leaders visit Borodyanka, where evidence of alleged Russian atrocities was found: ‘This is where the dark side of humankind has shown its face,’ Lithuanian president says

By Adam Schreck and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI

This combination of pictures shows US President Joe Biden, left, speaking at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021; and Russian President Vladimir Putin holding his annual press conference in Moscow on December 19, 2019. (Jim Watson and Alexander Nemenov/AFP)

March 26, 2022, 11:29 pm

Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’; White House: He didn’t mean regime change

Administration appears to try to walk back US president’s rhetorical escalation against Russian president in Warsaw speech

By Agencies

US President Joe Biden delivers a speech about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the Royal Castle in Warsaw on March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

March 26, 2022, 11:21 pm

Biden warns Russia: ‘Don’t even think about moving on an inch of NATO territory’

Wrapping up Europe trip, US president tells Ukrainians ‘we stand with you,’ warns world of ‘long fight ahead’; calls invasion a ‘strategic failure’ for Moscow

By Agencies

US President Joe Biden participates in an arrival ceremony with Polish President Andrzej Duda at the Presidential Palace, on Saturday, March 26, 2022, in Warsaw. (AP/Evan Vucci)

March 26, 2022, 3:51 pm

Biden to end Europe trip with message of unity against Russia that echoes the past

US president meets with Ukrainian defense, foreign ministers in Warsaw, will give major speech on European security, Ukraine war

By CHRIS MEGERIAN

Yasinya, 10, center, her mother, left, and Dr. Alex Gileles, right. (Hadassah spokesperson)

March 25, 2022, 6:50 pm

Israeli doctor saves life of Ukrainian girl, 4, suffering from rare genetic disorder

Yasinya, who has cystic fibrosis, arrived at Israeli clinic at Polish border with lungs nearly blocked; ‘It felt like providence,’ says Alex Gilelis, who was able to treat her

By Tobias Siegal

The Russian national tricolor flag flutters on top of the building of the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia's parliament, in central Moscow, in the evening of March 3, 2022. (AFP)

March 23, 2022, 9:16 am

US to sanction hundreds of Russian parliamentarians — report

New coercive measures to be announced as Biden heads off to Europe to meet with NATO officials with invasion of Ukraine entering its fourth week

By TOI staff and Agencies

Poland's President Andrzej Duda listens to Romania's President Klaus Iohannis during press statements at the Presidential Palace in Bucharest, Romania, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

March 23, 2022, 7:29 am

Polish president compares Russia’s attack on Ukraine to Nazi atrocities

Russia’s army and leaders are acting ‘like Hitler, like the German SS, like the… fascist army during World War II,’ Duda says. ‘Mariupol looks like Warsaw did in 1944’

By Vanessa Gera and SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC

In this image provided by the White House, US President Joe Biden listens during a secure video call with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Situation Room at the White House, March 7, 2022, in Washington. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP, File)

March 15, 2022, 9:26 pm

Biden to attend NATO, EU summits for talks on Russian invasion of Ukraine

White House says US president will ‘reaffirm our iron-clad commitment’ to allies during visit to Brussels, doesn’t rule out additional stops, including Poland

By Agencies