Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's former prime minister, confirmed on August 4, 2026 that his breakaway parliamentary group will formally launch a new party by October; PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński responded by ordering party members to sign a loyalty pledge disavowing external groupings; Morawiecki ruled out any cooperation with Prime Minister Donald Tusk, describing opposition to Tusk as a key organising principle
Russia launched its largest overnight barrage in weeks on July 30, killing at least ten civilians and wounding more than 50 across Ukraine; a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile crossed into eastern Poland, a NATO member, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed it likely crashed there, triggering notifications to NATO allies and a fresh Zelenskyy push for accelerated Western air-defence deliveries
Ukraine locked in co-production negotiations with Lockheed Martin on July 28, the second US defense contractor engaged in a week after Raytheon, while Poland's Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz proposed siting the production factory in Poland as a geographically safer option; Boeing separately declined to transfer the homing-head license to third countries, a restriction first reported by Germany's Die Welt; analysts say 24-to-30-month component lead times mean no Ukrainian-made PAC-3 MSE interceptors before late 2028
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Lublin on July 29 for talks with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on returning from Washington; the two sides discussed defence cooperation, anti-ballistic missile defence, and security arrangements for Ukrainians in Poland, alongside historical reconciliation issues
A Ukrainian man and his girlfriend were beaten by three men in Wroclaw, Poland, on July 26 because of their Ukrainian accents; Polish police questioned the couple on July 27, searched for suspects and detained two men, aged 27 and 45, by July 28; the Kyiv Independent described the attack as part of a surge in violence against Ukrainians in Poland fueled by a crisis in diplomatic relations between the two countries
A Russian missile violated Polish airspace and landed in a field in eastern Poland's Lublin region before dawn on July 30, during a mass Russian barrage on Ukraine; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte condemned the airspace violation and said the alliance would 'defend its territory'; Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said there was 'no reason to think Poland was targeted'; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed 'insufficient or delayed' air defense supplies for deaths in Ukraine during the same barrage
Polish police in Wroclaw questioned a Ukrainian man and his girlfriend on July 27 after three men attacked them on July 26 specifically because of their Ukrainian accent; two suspects aged 27 and 45 were subsequently detained, according to Polish police; the Kyiv Independent noted the attack follows a surge in violence against Ukrainians in Poland in recent months amid strained bilateral relations
Russia's President Vladimir Putin told Russian Navy officers on July 26 that he was 'confident' Ukraine would 'sooner or later' lose its western territories, which he described as lands Stalin gifted to Soviet Ukraine after WWII; Poland's Foreign Ministry called it 'cynical' disinformation designed to split Warsaw from Kyiv; Hungary and Romania, also named, have not responded
Poland's president obstructed legislation that would have imposed a windfall tax on fuel companies' excess profits on July 27, drawing criticism from Prime Minister Donald Tusk's governing coalition; the veto arrives as oil prices remain high and Poland's government considers reviving fuel price caps, while a separate split in the opposition Law and Justice party provided a parallel political backdrop
Poland's conservative President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill on July 17 that would have legalised civil partnerships, blocking a central element of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's reform agenda; overriding the veto would require a three-fifths majority in the lower house of parliament, a threshold rarely met in Polish politics
A Polish court convicted Igor Rogov, a former coordinator for Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Open Russia movement, of spying for Russia's FSB and involvement in a parcel bomb plot on July 9; his wife Irina received a three-year sentence for aiding the espionage; the trial was held entirely behind closed doors.
Defence Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz said six to eight written-off Polish MiG-29s will not be sent after Ukraine declined to grant access to its unmanned combat systems and counterdrone expertise, collapsing a deal agreed in principle last year
Signed on a warship deck in Gdynia with PMs Tusk and Kristersson present, the deal ends three decades of Polish submarine capability atrophy and gives Saab its largest-ever order
The 140kg-warhead system passed a live test, expanding Ukraine's drone arsenal beyond domestically produced designs
Zelensky absent over the White Eagle row; PM Svyrydenko led Ukraine's delegation; von der Leyen delivered the opening EU disbursement from a €90B loan; energy and transport pacts dominate the deal sheet
Formal government-to-government security treaties that complement or bypass NATO, now numbering 160-plus among European states after Russia's 2022 invasion accelerated their pace.
The NATO framework requiring member states to share defence costs, sharpened at the 2025 Hague Summit into a pledge for all 32 allies to reach 5% of GDP by 2035.
Poland's Prime Minister since December 2023, Tusk built a pro-EU coalition that ended eight years of PiS rule but now faces a cohabitation president issuing record-breaking vetoes.
A WWII-memory rupture pits President Nawrocki against PM Tusk and Kyiv, with Moscow the only clear winner
German troops to help fortify the Belarus and Russia borders as US engagement wavers
37 presidential vetoes in ten months turn cohabitation into open warfare
The president can't veto the budget, so he refers it, Tusk says it changes nothing