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US military involvement developing as planned - Polish FM

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Expansion of the American military presence in Poland is progressing according to plan, Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz told PAP in reference to one of the topics on the agenda of the White House talks between the Polish and US presidents on Wednesday.

Defender-Europe 20 commanders say Polish-US exercises essential

Modified Polish-US DEFENDER-Europe 20 Plus military exercises with the participation of armed forces are essential to ensure reliability, combat capacity and deterrence, the commanders of the Defender-Europe 20 Plus exercise have said.

Polish presidential aide refutes Reuter's report on Fort Trump failure

Polish presidential aide Krzysztof Szczerski on Friday called a report by Reuter's new agency on the alleged failure of the Fort Trump concept "total disinformation." Fort Trump is Poland's plan to set up a permanent US military base in Poland.

Poland's D-Day Story live

Discover the important role of Poland's military during the Normandy landings at this special anniversary event.

Investigation uncovers web of Russian agents behind string of bomb threats

The investigation found that the emails were linked to three servers based in St. Petersburg, which, according to the investigating journalists, have been used in the past to spread disinformation around the world.

Today marks centenary of when Poles seized back Kyiv from Bolsheviks

With the threat from Soviet Russia very real, Józef Piłsudski’s bold excursion deep towards the east was part of his grand idea to create a military and political alliance, a buffer of independent countries allied with Poland, including Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.

Temporary bridge to help fight nature park blaze - MoD

Military engineers will build a temporary bridge to improve access to Biebrza National Park where firefighters have been battling a massive fire that has razed some 6,000 hectares of Poland's biggest nature reserve.

Polish docs fly out to US to help in the fight against coronavirus

Dispatched by Warsaw’s Military Institute of Medicine the team of nine will operate at the McCormick Place Convention Centre, the largest field hospital in the city which can treat up to 2,250 patients.

NATO head praises Polish military doctors on mission to Chicago

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg has praised Polish military doctors currently on their way to Chicago to help their peers in the daily fight against the coronavirus.

Military institute sends medical teams to Slovenia

A team of Polish medics from the Military Institute of Medicine (WIM) will take part in a medical training mission in Slovenia from Wednesday to Friday. During their stay they will exchange know-how in aiding victims of the coronavirus epidemic with their Slovenian colleagues.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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