Poland

Customs officers and border guards last week seized a record consignment of illegal cigarettes worth EUR 2.6 million at the border with Poland, the Customs Criminal Service said Wednesday.

A Lithuanian woman has died in Poland after being found unconscious in the Tatra Mountains and taken to hospital. Three Lithuanian women were hiking in the Tatras and reportedly got lost on the night from Friday to Saturday.

Lithuania will send a team of rescuers and equipment to neighbouring Poland, which is ravaged by floods.

Lithuania together with Poland and two other European countries have applied for partial EU funding to procure Polish short-range man-portable air defence systems Piorun.

Minister of Defence of Poland Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz will pay a visit to Lithuania on Wednesday.

Polish President Andrzej Duda says the Suwalki Gap, dubbed the most dangerous place on earth by some foreign leaders, cannot be seen in the same way as Ukraine and the Gaza Strip though threats remain in the region. The continuous effort to develop collective defence is essential, he said.

Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas admits that Lithuania may consider how Ukraine could return conscription age men who had left the country amid the largescale invasion by Russia. Lithuania is not yet taking any concrete measures and is observing decisions adopted in Poland.

President Gitanas Nausėda says two individuals were detained in Poland as suspects in attacking Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in Vilnius.

Polish President Andrzej Duda, who attended the Three Seas Initiative Summit in Vilnius on Thursday, confirmed that Poland would defend Lithuania if the latter were attacked. Discussions had emerged in the public sphere earlier claiming that legal restrictions might prevent Poland’s military assista...

A massive group of illegal migrants have aggressively tried to cross into Poland from Belarus, says Interior Ministry Agnė Bilotaitė, calling the incident an attack orchestrated by the Belarusian regime.

According to the State Border Guard Service (VSAT), Polish farmers’ protest has ended at the Budzisko-Kalvarija border checkpoint, at the border with Lithuania.

Drawing from bitter lessons of the past, Lithuania and Poland understand that indecision, disunity, or concessions to aggressors like Russia only serve to embolden them and escalate conflicts, emphasised Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė during her meeting with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk in V...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who is paying a visit to Lithuania, has announced that he will address the Polish parliament over the introduction of sanctions on Russian and Belarusian agricultural goods. He suggests that such restrictions should also apply on the European Union level.

Checks at Lithuanian-Polish border crossing initiated by Polish farmers have found many processed products of unknown origin crossing the border, while lorries are carrying small quantities of Ukrainian grain, organisers say.

On Friday, 1 March, Polish farmers started a protest campaign at the Polish-Lithuanian border on the main motorway between the two countries. Polish farmers are protesting and voicing their discontent about the European Green Deal and import of cheap Ukrainian grain to Poland. Lithuania’s Police Com...

Polish farmers, discontent over the European Green Deal and cheap Ukrainian grain imports, on Friday started a partial blockade of a motorway between Budzisko village in Poland and Kalvarija city in Lithuania. Polish farmers’ protest campaign is expected to last for a week and they intend to check h...

The State Border Guard Service (VSAT) will allocate additional personnel to ensure public order at the border during the protest of Polish farmers, who plan to start a blockade of a motorway connecting Poland and Lithuania on Friday.

The President’s Office and the Foreign Ministry are not at odds over the stalled appointment of an ambassador to Poland, says President Gitanas Nausėda, warning against overreaction.

President Gitanas Nausėda says the situation with blocked Ukrainian trucks on the Polish border is difficult as the countries involved lack the will to settle the dispute.

Миграционный кризис на границе России и Финляндии привел к массовым задержаниям иностранцев с просроченными российскими визами. Би-би-си нашла свидетельства того, что российские власти пытаются вербовать задержанных для отправки на войну с Украиной.