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Poland-registered bus veers off Hungary highway, killing 12 people

A crash involving a bus registered in Poland killed 12 people and severely injured at least 10 early Sunday on a Hungary highway, marking the worst accident of its kind in the country in more than 20 years. Poland will send an emergency aircraft to Budapest, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced.

Poland says it thwarted Russian assassination attempt on U.S. citizen in Warsaw

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it was the first time Russia attempted to assassinate a U.S. citizen on the territory of another NATO member.

First Thing: Court files show how federal agents spied on anti-ICE protesters | Martin Belam

Undercover agents infiltrated meetings, private chats and local events. Plus Wile E Coyote returns to the big screen Good morning. The extent to which federal law enforcement targeted political opponents and peaceful organizers has been laid bare in newly disclosed court documents. Internal investigative files reveal that the Department of Homeland Security launched a sweeping surveillance operation against anti-ICE protesters, major labor unions and left-leaning advocacy groups – sending undercover agents to infiltrate community meetings and issuing administrative subpoenas to seize financial records. The documents show that DHS investigators obtained financial records of unions and non-profits, as part of an inquiry into “domestic terrorist financing”. What did undercover government agents do? They infiltrated community meetings, joined private activist Signal chats and surreptitiously recorded audio at local events – including a “resistance skills training” at a public library and a sparring session at a church gym, where an agent accidentally dropped his recording device. Agents posed as activists and actively engaged participants by offering to help with “direct-action” protests. How have activists responded? Emilia González Avalos, the executive director of Unidos MN, a Minneapolis social justice non-profit group, said: “I believe that this is a clear attempt to intimidate us, to punish and politically repress disagreement and difference. And that is not the America that we have built through hundreds of years. And it’s definitely not the America that we are organizing for.” Where did the attack take place? The attack took place in Sevastopol, the biggest city in Russian-annexed Crimea. ​The regional governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said a woman had been arrested on suspicion of ⁠assassinating Shageyev on behalf of Ukrainian special services. What has Poland said about Russian activity there? A Russian plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister has said. Donald Tusk said it was the first time that “someone on the order of Russia” had sought to attack a US citizen on the territory of another Nato country. Continue reading...

Russian plot to kill Ukrainian American thwarted in Warsaw, says Polish PM

Donald Tusk says it is first time ‘someone on the order of Russia’ has sought to attack US citizen in Nato country A Russian plan to kill a Ukrainian American citizen in Warsaw was thwarted by Poland before it could be carried out, the Polish prime minister has said. Donald Tusk said it was the first time that “someone on the order of Russia” had sought to attack a US citizen on the territory of another Nato country. Continue reading...

Poland arrests Russian man for alleged assassination plot against US-Ukrainian national, PM Tusk says

"This marks the first instance where someone, acting on Russian orders, has attempted to assassinate an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Poland detains Russian over 'execution' plot in Warsaw: Tusk

Poland arrested a Russian national accused of planning, on Moscow’s orders, to assassinate a Ukrainian-American in Warsaw.

Poland detains Russian national who planned to murder US-Ukrainian citizen in Warsaw – PM Tusk

Poland's Internal Security Agency, working with the police, has detained a Russian national who was preparing to murder a dual US-Ukrainian citizen on behalf of Russian intelligence services.

Poland detains Russian for 'execution' plot in Warsaw, Tusk says

Poland has arrested a Russian national who was allegedly planning to kill a Ukrainian-American dual citizen in Warsaw, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday. Tusk added that this was the first time that “someone on the order of Russia” had sought to attack an American citizen on NATO territory.

Poland says it arrested Russian hired to kill Ukrainian-American citizen

Poland has ⁠arrested a ⁠Russian man who was ⁠hired by Moscow to kill a Ukrainian-American citizen in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. The Russian was detained on August ‌7 and had been recruited to kill a man who was “inconvenient to the Putin regime”, Tusk told journalists. The Russian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Moscow has regularly ⁠dismissed accusations by European powers of attacks, saying the West ‌is stoking...

Where did the ivory trade go after China banned elephant tusks? North, into the Russian permafrost — where an estimated 10M frozen mammoths lie waiting, and a kilogram of tusk fetches up to $1,900.

Mammoth tusks came to be known as “ethical ivory” after China banned imports of elephant tusks in 2017, closing the market that elephants were being slaughtered to supply. China and Hong Kong are home to the world’s most developed tusk-carving industry, in which a single piece can sell for as much as billions of rubles (tens of millions of dollars). Meeting that demand fell to Yakutia‘s tusk hunters, who dig the frozen ivory out of the permafrost. The independent Siberian outlet People of Baikal describes how this punishing trade works — and what the hunters may be costing science and themselves. Meduza has translated the story in full.

Poland: Prime minister Tusk defies anti-Ukrainian violence

Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Poland is on the rise, with numerous attacks against refugees from the war in Ukraine. Prime Minister Donald Tusk has spoken out against the violence and warned of the danger from Russia.

10 of a family killed in Russian strike

KYIV/WARSAW: A Russian missile slammed into a family home in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, obliterating it and leaving 10 members of the same family presumed dead, an official said. An official with Ukraine’s emergency services said that six people had been confirmed killed so far, with another four presumed dead but still to be formally identified. Russia fired a total of 74 missiles and 284 drones in the overnight barrage, according to Ukraine’s air force — the latest deadly attack in the four-and-a-half-year war, which is seeing a spike in civilian deaths. In the capital Kyiv, tens of thousands hunkered in packed-out metro stations through the night after blasts started ringing out shortly after midnight. Moscow blamed for missile that blasted crater in Polish field The western city of Lviv was also badly hit, and neighbouring Nato member Poland said a 10-metre crater punctured in a field 80 kilometres (50 miles) from the Ukraine border was likely from a Russian missile. “The Russians used their ballistic missile to destroy an ordinary house belonging to an ordinary family,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on social media. “It was an ordinary home, blown into smithereens,” he added. “The Voronov family: mother Olena, father Artem, seven children,” and a grandchild, he said. The strike hit their house outside the eastern city of Kryvyi Rig — Zelensky’s home town. The youngest presumed victim was one and a half years old, he added. The emergency services official said that such was the devastation at the scene, 17 “body fragments” had been found, and forensic examinations were ongoing. “It can be preliminarily stated that all 10 people who were in the house have died,” Sergiy Kovtoniuk, press officer of the State Emergency Service in the Dnipropetrovsk region, said. The regional governor published photos of rescuers sifting through the rubble of a destroyed house, wooden beams and concrete debris strewn across the yard. Poland crater Ukraine’s air force said it had managed to intercept 55 missiles and 265 drones launched by Moscow -- but it has struggled to intercept the advanced ballistic missiles that Russia is increasingly deploying. In neighbouring Poland, police said they had discovered a 10-metre-wide crater in a field after an unidentified object was detected on radar screens during the Russian attack -- triggering anger in Warsaw and across Europe. “From the analysis of most of the traces, the recovered fragments point to a Russian Kh-101 missile,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk told journalists near the crater. Zelensky renewed his call for more supplies of air-defence equipment to protect Ukraine against the ballistic missiles. “Given the critical shortage of air-defence missiles from our partners, our warriors are accomplishing truly incredible things,” he said. The Ukrainian leader had on Tuesday discussed anti-ballistic defence with US President Donald Trump at the White House. Published in Dawn, July 31st, 2026

Warsaw to consider providing Ukraine with additional Patriot missiles after suspected Russian missile falls in Poland

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on July 30 that Warsaw will consider transferring additional Patriot missiles to Kyiv after a suspected Russian missile crashed into a field in eastern Poland earlier in the night. In the early hours of July 30, sirens blared in the Poland's Lublin

NATO chief on Russian missile hitting Poland: "We are strengthening our readiness to defend against any threat"

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has held a phone call with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk after a Russian missile crashed on Polish territory on 30 July.

Tusk says Russian missile appears to have come down in eastern Poland

Warsaw blames Moscow after a missile crashes in Poland

Polish authorities are investigating an object that came down in eastern Poland overnight and is thought to be a Russian missile, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday. The discovery followed reports of an explosion, with investigators finding a crater and debris scattered across a nearby field.

Russian missile lands in Poland as NATO investigates amid fears of wider war

Donald Tusk said the missile posed no direct threat and would have been intercepted had it continued flying, as NATO pledged to defend allied territory.

PM Tusk says Russian missile appears to have come down in eastern Poland

An object that came down in eastern Poland overnight appears to be a Russian missile, ​Polish Prime Minister ‌Donald Tusk said on Thursday, after authorities found a crater and scattered debris in ⁠a field following reports of an explosion.

Polish PM claims Russian missile fell in Poland despite no debris analysis yet

Donald Tusk stated that "everything points to a Russian Kh-101 cruise missile"

Poland probes suspected Russian missile crash as fears grow over NATO airspace breach

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said an object that crashed into a field in eastern Poland in the early hours of Thursday was probably a Russian missile.

Polish PM: "Zelenskyy warned us that Russians were planning massive attack"

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed him about a planned massive Russian airstrike on Ukraine when they met in Lublin on Wednesday 29 July.

At least 13 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Poland investigates airspace violation – Europe live

Huge missile and drone attack on Ukraine as Poland’s Tusk prepares to travel to impact site discovered in east of country At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured in another night of heavy Russian attacks on Ukraine, with neighbouring Poland also investigating an reported airspace violation and explosion on its territory. Russia launched 74 missiles and 284 drones against targets in Ukraine, with casualties reported primarily in Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv regions. Continue reading...

Tusk: Polish, German troops jointly reinforce Russia border

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Wednesday that Polish and German soldiers are conducting joint operations to reinforce Poland’s border with Russia as part of the NATO alliance’s East Shield program, describing the bilateral cooperation as unprecedented proof of effective defense coordination between the neighboring countries.

PM meeting with Prime Minister Tusk of Poland: 21 July 2026

The Prime Minister spoke to the Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk this evening.