NATO lacks adequate air defenses, military mobility, ammunition, and the mindset to be fully ready for a large-scale conventional war, retired U.S. Lieutenant General Ben Hodges said on Oct. 2.Speaking at a discussion at the Warsaw Security Forum atten…
Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur says that the country’s government has discussed the possibility of sending its military personnel on non-combat missions to Ukraine’s west, but no specific decision has been made yet.
Source: European Pravda, cit…
The Polish and Ukrainian foreign ministries have released contradictory statements regarding whether Polish Minister Radosław Sikorski met with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha during the latter’s visit to Poland this week.
Source: European Prav…
During a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, Szymon Hołownia, Marshal (Speaker) of the Polish Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament), brought up the issue of exhuming the remains of victims of the Volyn tragedy. [The Volyn (Volh…
EU ambassadors on 2 October agreed on a new sanctions package targeting Russian hybrid threats.
Source: Radio Liberty’s Europe editor Rikard Jozwiak on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda
Details: Jozwiak noted that the mechanism will com…
Former Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz has criticised the current Polish government, accusing it of intending to create a conflict with Ukraine instead of unblocking the exhumation of the remains of Polish victims of the Volyn tragedy. [The V…
Polish National Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has reported that the number of Ukrainians who have volunteered for the Ukrainian Legion in Poland was extremely low.
Source: Polish online news outlet Wirtualna Polska; European Pravda
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Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) and Foreign Ministry evacuated 179 people from Lebanon on Oct. 1 amid escalating violence in the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry reported. The evacuation comes after Israel on Oct. 1 launched a ground invasion of…
Tallinn’s planned security tax is “unprecedented,” but “everybody in Estonia understands that we have to do more,” Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said on Oct. 1.Speaking at a panel discussion at the Warsaw Security Forum attended by the Kyiv In…
Polish President Andrzej Duda is ending his second five-year term. The next presidential election is set to take place next year. A new person will lead Poland after it.
However, it is likely that Duda will not completely leave politics. Even though i…