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Polish town grants honorary citizenship to Ukrainian war hero

In 2018 Skakun had lived for six-months in the central Polish town of Leszno. Social media

Leszno, a town in western Poland, has awarded honorary citizenship to Vitali Skakun, a Ukrainian marine combat engineer who sacrificed his life on the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine by blowing up a bridge to slow the enemy’s offensive.

Ukrainian sapper who blew himself up to stop Russian tanks honoured by Leszno bikers after they reveal he had lived in the town and was a club member

Vitalii Volodymyrovych Skakun was hailed a hero after blowing himself up to stop a row of Russian tanks.  Now members of the Klub Motocyklowy Bikers Legion Leszno have paid tribute after revealing that Skakun used to live in the town and was a club member.

Wielkopolska Uprising finally gets its official day of honour as country marks anniversary with national holiday, albeit a working one

Writing on Facebook today, prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: "The Greater Poland Uprising was a great and victorious act of courage and heroism (which) contributed significantly to the rebirth of the independent Republic of Poland!”

It’s not the sights that make Wschowa so special, it’s the atmosphere

Snuck away west of Leszno and with a population of just 14,000, ‘the greatest little town you’ve never heard of’ sits largely forgotten by the rest of the nation. And that’s good!

Appeal launched to find Jewish woman who disappeared after her husband was executed for saving woman sold as a sex slave for bottle of vodka

Lidia Przerwa was last seen in 1947 when her husband was executed by firing squad over the deaths of three Soviet soldiers who had been transporting a woman they’d bought off her own husband.

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President, PM commemorate Leszno's restoration to Poland

President Andrzej Duda in a letter on Friday commemorated the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the western-Polish city of Leszno to Poland.

One of Poland’s few successful insurgencies against foreign oppression, the Wielkopolska Uprising took place 100 years ago today

By the end of 1918, the insurgents had taken most of the Poznań area, and by January a large part of the Wielkopolska region was under their control.

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Cell where Witold Pilecki was held before being executed opens to the public

The opening of the 2x3.5-metre cell where Pilecki awaited execution at the hands of the Soviet-installed communists coincides with the 75th anniversary of his execution at the prison in 1948.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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