Poland

‘Do you have any friends in the IRA?’: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe

The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine

‘We must survive’: Lviv fights to keep lights on as Russia bombards Ukrainian energy grid

Mayor of city, which is less than 100km from the Polish border, says EU neighbours are ‘in dreamworld’ over threat from Moscow

Barry’s Tea, brack and quiet deals: the breakfasts where Europe’s leaders set the agenda

Ireland’s early morning pre-summit meeting with Nordic and Baltic States is now a fixture of Brussels diplomacy

‘We will not accept their erasure’: Dublin-based gallerist reclaims his family’s Holocaust story

Oliver Sears returns to Łodz with an exhibition honouring his murdered grandfather – and confronting Poland’s uneasy memory of its vanished Jewish community

Mother of girl (5) killed at home thanks community for giving her ‘strength and power’

Gardaí investigating theory child was killed by her father before he took his own life

Ireland should work with other EU countries to build up drone defences, Taoiseach says

Leaders discuss closer co-operation on defence spending at Copenhagen summit

Finglas residents struggle to make sense of deaths of father and five-year-old daughter

Gardaí are treating deaths as suspected murder-suicide after child’s mother found their bodies

Russian missiles and drones strike Ukraine during 12-hour attack

Assault involves nearly 500 drones and more than 40 missiles, claims Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Father urges State to help him get toddler daughter back to Ireland in ‘heart-rending’ case

Child taken by her mother to Poland without her father’s consent in dispute over medical treatment

Poland will shoot down objects violating its airspace, prime minister says

Russia says claims it is testing Nato are false and designed to stir up tension

Poland scrambles aircraft after Russia launches ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine

Russia hits Ukraine with nearly 600 drones and 40 missiles, killing three and injuring dozens

Who’s Building Ireland review: A quirky take on housing crisis with a snapshot of rising racism here

Television: Candid stories from immigrant construction workers are refreshingly honest and cut through the nonsense that can make living here such a struggle

Ireland still hopeful of EU coalition to block Mercosur trade deal with South America

Poland and Austria oppose agreement while France and Italy are sceptical, says Minister for Agriculture

Polish president to push Berlin for help against Russian drone incursions

‘Utterly unacceptable’ violations prompt Britain to summon ambassador amid war drills with Belarus

Russia made drone production a supreme priority. Now it swarms the skies

Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts

Romania says Russian drone incursions pose ‘new challenge’ to Black Sea security

Country’s defence ministry condemns ‘irresponsible actions’ after drone entered its airspace at weekend

Europe refuses to accept reality as Putin escalates war on Ukraine

The West huffs and puffs but does nothing to stop him, even as he prods at the edge of Nato territory

Russia’s war games put spotlight on vulnerable section of Nato territory

In Poland 40,000 troops watch the border as Vladimir Putin’s forces make manoeuvres at the bloc’s weak point

France, Germany and Denmark pledge jets to boost Poland’s defences

UK will also contribute to defence against future Russian drone incursions as Ukraine peace talks stall again

Poland will not be intimidated by Russian ‘provocation’, says president

Investigators say many of the 16 drones recovered were unarmed

Ryanair calls for ‘robust response’ after Russian drones cripple European flights

Closure of Polish air space saw 40% of Irish airline’s flights delayed with O’Leary warning that ‘Russia poking the bear’ will continue

Nato will defend ‘every inch’ of its territory, says Rutte after drone incident in Poland

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk described the incident as ‘a large-scale provocation’

Poland ‘closest to open conflict since World War Two’, says Tusk after drone incident

Moscow denies responsibility, with a senior diplomat saying the drones came from direction of Ukraine

Russia says it had not planned to hit any targets in Poland amid condemnation of drone incident

Polish PM Donald Tusk condemns ‘large-scale provocation’ by Russia

Russia tests Nato as Poland confronts historic security breach

It is the first time a Nato member is known to have fired shots since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022

Ursula von der Leyen’s hair-raising flight points to turbulent times ahead

Eastern EU states continue to warn about ‘hybrid warfare tactics’ of Russia and its allies

EU states working on plans for postwar military deployments to Ukraine

‘Clear road map’ for possible deployments, European Commission president says

Polish police are refusing to look for ‘kidnapped’ Irish girl, court told

Father seeking court orders directing Taoiseach, Minister for Justice and Minister for Foreign Affairs to help get his daughter back

European leaders back Moldova in face of ‘massive’ pre-election interference by Russia

Germany says Kremlin wants to ‘turn back time’ and regain hold over EU candidate country

Russia says Ukraine talks without its input are doomed, as western defence chiefs meet

Warsaw accuses Moscow of ‘provocation’ after drone crashes and explodes in eastern Poland

Trump says plans for Putin meeting to be announced soon

Trump says details of meeting due to be announced soon

Poland’s new pro-Trump president brings nation into uncharted waters

Karol Nawrocki promises to block any attempts by the EU to ‘take away Poland’s powers’

Irish man claims State has ‘abandoned’ his child in Poland, court filings show

Girl’s mother took her to Poland without father’s consent; parents in battle over where child should receive medical care

So many jobs are a laughable waste of time. The greater part of any job is learning to look busy

We’ve inherited a strange cultural hangover from better times: the idea that the thing you do to survive should also double as your identity and source of pride

Kremlin calls for more US pressure on Ukraine and lambasts ‘militaristic’ Europe

But drop in drone strikes during Trump envoy’s visit to Kyiv shows Russia is ‘afraid of America’, Zelenskiy says

Poland’s chief rabbi rejects memorial to wartime pogrom as ‘disgrace’

Plaque denies Polish involvement in murder of Jews at village of Jedwabne, instead blaming a German unit

Poland to start controls on borders with Germany, Lithuania over migration

Move follows other EU countries in reimposing frontier checks to stem illegal migration

‘Going backwards’: Landmine treaty enters increasingly perilous territory as key states pull out

Finland, Poland and Ukraine have all moved recently to exit the 1997 Ottawa agreement

Parents in legal battle over whether daughter should receive medical care in Ireland or Poland

Mother says daughter will not receive care she needs in Ireland due to waiting lists

Poland’s pro-European coalition wins no confidence vote

Donald Tusk hopes result will give his cabinet momentum after presidential election setback

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