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Russia-Poland relations

Firefighters secure the area where it is believed that parts of a drone fell, probably after it was shot down, in Czosnowka near Biala Podlaska, Poland, on September 10, 2025. (Piotr Pyrkosz/various sources/AFP)
September 10, 2025, 8:20 pm
NATO shoots down Russian drones over Poland, raising fears of war spillover
Trump to speak with Polish President Nawrocki later Wednesday, White House official says, after at least 19 drone violations recorded, including several from Belarus
By CLAUDIA CIOBANU, ILLIA NOVIKOV and Rafal Niedzielski
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)
October 1, 2023, 5:11 am
Is Poland’s government shooting itself in the foot with its cooling stance on Ukraine?
Running for reelection, the ruling Law and Justice party is flailing in every direction to keep its populist credibility, but its latest pivot may have far-reaching implications
By Paul Hockenos
Police officers gather outside a grain depot where the Polish Foreign Ministry said a Russian-made missile fell and killed two people in Przewodow, eastern Poland, on November 15, 2022. (AP Photo)
November 15, 2022, 11:53 pm
‘Russian-made’ missile strikes Poland, killing 2 and raising fears of wider war
Polish foreign ministry confirms strike, summons Russian ambassador; Moscow denies involvement; Biden talks with NATO chief as member state hit for 1st time since Russia’s invasion
By Agencies
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers a statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, April 27, 2022. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AP)
April 28, 2022, 10:40 am
‘Blackmail’: European leaders issue fiery response to Russia cutting gas supplies
Declaring the Kremlin’s move a ‘failure,’ EU’s von der Leyen predicts the end of the continent’s dependence on Russian energy, says Kremlin has failed in attempt to sow division
By YESICA FISCH, Jon Gambrell and Vanessa Gera
A man waves the Ukrainian and Polish flag during a demonstration in front of a building housing Russian diplomats in Warsaw, Poland, March 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
March 23, 2022, 2:24 pm
Amid Ukraine war, Poland expels 45 Russian diplomats suspected of spying
Security agency also arrests Polish national suspected of collaborating with the group; Moscow dismisses claims, says it reserves the right to take retaliatory measures
By AFP
Poland's Robert Lewandowski controls the ball during the World Cup 2022 group I qualifying soccer match between Poland and England, at the Narodowy stadium in Warsaw, on September 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
February 26, 2022, 7:56 pm
Poland, Sweden refuse to play Russia in World Cup playoffs amid Ukraine invasion
‘No more words, time to act!’ Polish soccer federation president says; FIFA yet to take a clear position on the matter
By AP
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on June 19, 2020 (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
June 20, 2020, 6:00 pm
Poland says Putin falsifies World War II history to weaken Western allies
After Russian leader publishes English article saying Soviet Union was main defeater of Nazis, pinning some blame for war on Poland, Warsaw says he is waging ‘information war’
By Vanessa Gera
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
February 3, 2020, 8:47 pm
Yad Vashem apologizes for distortions favoring Russia at Holocaust forum
Museum tells newspaper it allowed an unbalanced representation of events during World War II, clarifies that videos shown at ceremony last month do not represent its own position
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)
January 24, 2020, 5:10 pm
Historians slam ‘completely false’ Putin Holocaust claims at Jerusalem ceremony
Russian president’s assertion that 40% of the Jews who died in the Holocaust were citizens of Soviet Union ‘ridiculous,’ and part of ongoing dispute with Poland over WWII history
By Sam Sokol
The railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 7, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP/File)
January 22, 2020, 6:37 pm
Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary
The Russian president has sought to shift blame for WWII to Warsaw, which believes Putin’s main motive is to weaken Polish influence in the European Union
By Vanessa Gera and Aron Heller
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on drafting constitutional changes at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, January 16, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
January 21, 2020, 10:38 pm
Poland calls on Putin to tell truth at WWII event in Israel
Warsaw’s deputy FM vows to point to historical documents if Russian president uses Holocaust forum speech to continue his spat with Poland over war’s outbreak
By AP
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
January 21, 2020, 4:49 pm
Polish PM: Soviets facilitated Nazi Germany, Russia is rewriting history
Morawiecki says Red Army failed to take opportunity to liberate Auschwitz in 1944; Polish president says won’t meet Katz until he apologizes for ‘suckling anti-Semitism’ comments
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Yaffa Issachar, whose daughter Naama was jailed in Russia for tax offenses, seen arriving at Ben Gurion Airport, Israel, January 19, 2020. (Channel 12 news)
January 19, 2020, 5:43 pm
Mother of US-Israeli backpacker jailed in Russia predicts Putin pardon
Yaffa Issachar, back from Moscow where she worked to secure release of daughter Naama, calls on supporters to show respect for Russian president when he visits Jerusalem this week
By ToI Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying commemoration ceremony for the 77th anniversary since the Leningrad siege was lifted during the World War II at the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, where hundreds of thousands of siege victims are buried, in St. Petersburg, Russia, January 18, 2020. (Alexei Danichev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
January 19, 2020, 8:59 am
In WWII dispute with Russia, Poland notes ‘atrocities’ done by Soviet Union
After Putin claimed Poland bears responsibility for war’s outbreak and days before Auschwitz liberation anniversary, Warsaw says that brought ‘decades of communist oppression’
By AP
Soldiers of the Armia Krayova (Juliusz Bogdan Deczkowski/Public Domain)
January 17, 2020, 2:04 pm
In latest broadside, Moscow says Polish resistance army killed Jews in WWII
Russia’s defense ministry accuses Armia Krayova of ‘destroying Jews’ in Warsaw, amid feud with Poland over war’s history
By AFP
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