In this episode of The Debrief, John Beauchamp speaks to Iryna Oleksiuk from the Ukrainian House / Our Choice Foundation on the help offered to Ukrainians by Poles.
The US will aid its European allies in supplying natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria after Russia halted deliveries to both countries, US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday.
More and more world leaders see the need to impose stricter sanctions on Russia, especially an embargo on imports of hydrocarbons, Poland's president said after online talks with US President Joe Biden and the leaders of the Nato, EU and G7 countries.
Poland needs immediate and additional EU funding to provide assistance to refugees from Ukraine, Poland's deputy interior minister said on Wednesday.
The Polish and German presidents met for face-to-face talks in Warsaw on Tuesday to discuss ways of helping Ukraine amid Russia's invasion.
A group of 43 Polish non-governmental organisations helping Ukrainian refugees have received a total of PLN 10 million (EUR 2.13 million) in government aid, the culture minister has said.
After being sorted by officials in Gdynia, the half a million items of shoes, clothing and bedding are sent to Ukrainian refugees in Poland and those remaining in their homeland.
Taking time off from his busy career to aid incoming refugees, Nico Roskam said he instantly started recruiting people to join him on a dash to the border. Appealing online for others to join him, he was staggered by the response. He told TFN: “On the first day we were able to pick up 22 refugees. The next day we returned with five cars.” Many of the refugees have now ended up in Roskam’s own house, whilst others have been lodged courtesy of his network of friends.
Kamala Harris, the US vice president, has assured Poland's head of government, Mateusz Morawiecki, that the United States will continue to help Ukraine's neighbours cope with the hundreds of thousands of war refugees flooding into their countries.
Setting off on Saturday as part of a practice run for evacuating Ukraine’s wounded, when the crew arrived in Mostyska and found thousands of refugees waiting to leave they decided to turn their practice into reality and take as many as possible to safety in Poland.
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