Poland has charged a little-known Russian opposition figure with espionage and participating in a bomb plot. His friends are perplexed.

Russia has strongly denied Poland’s claims that its drones violated NATO airspace, dismissing the allegations as baseless and politically motivated. After Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk invoked NATO’s Article 4,

Poland’s deputy prime minister said he expects Russia to escalate its sabotage activities in the country following an explosion on a busy rail route to Ukraine for which authorities blame Moscow.

Officials are accusing Russia of smaller-scale assaults. President Vladimir V. Putin sought to turn the tables, saying that if Europe were to start a war, Russia is ready.

Russia on Thursday ordered Poland to close its consulate in the Siberian city of Irkutsk in retaliation for Warsaw's decision to close the last Russian consulate in Poland after a railway explosion that was blamed on Moscow.

Authorities say Mirgorodsky orchestrated sabotage, espionage and propaganda activities in 2023 using Telegram to command a group of around 30

On the morning of December 6, Poland not only scrambled its air force in response to the Russian attack on Ukraine, but also sounded air raid sirens in one of its settlements. The incident occurred in the city of Lubartów in the Lublin Voivodeship,

Germany has deployed five Eurofighter jets and some 150 military personnel to the Polish town of Malbork to help secure the country's airspace, the German air force said on Thursday, in response to Russian drone incursions in September.