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☆ Ukrainian boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk released after ‘misunderstanding’ which led to detention in Poland
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Undisputed heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk was released after being detained by law enforcement at Krakow Airport in Poland, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. Speaking on social media, Usyk – the undisputed heavyweight champion – said “a misunderstanding took place” but that the incident “was quickly resolved.”“Thanks to all who got concerned. Usyk speaks to reporters after becoming the undisputed world heavyweight champion earlier this year. Earlier this year, Usyk beat Tyson Fury in a razor-thin split decision to become the undisputed heavyweight world champion. He became the first undisputed champion since Lennox Lewis 25 years ago, with the Briton winning all three belts available at that time.

Persons: Oleksandr Usyk, Volodymyr Zelensky, Zelensky, ” “, Andrii Sybiha, Ihor, ” Zelensky, ”, Usyk, –, Usyk’s, Yekaterina, Nick Potts, Sybiha, We’ll, Tyson Fury, Lennox Lewis Organizations: CNN, Krakow Airport, Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Polish Police, Usyk Foundation, Briton Locations: Poland, Ukraine, Kraków, Ukrainian

☆ Five human skeletons, missing hands and feet, found outside house of Nazi leader Hermann Göring
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Archaeologists have unearthed the skeletons of five people, missing their hands and feet, at a former Nazi military base in Poland. Latebra Fundation PolandHowever, they then found ashes and a burned key, before he found the skull fragment. The foundation is waiting to hear the results of a police investigation into the remains, and many questions remain unanswered. “Right now, it’s very hard to say.”The excavation site outside a house inside the Wolf's Lair Latebra Fundation PolandAn important next step is to find out the age of the remains using radio carbon dating, he added. Deliberately built miles from civilization in the forests of northeastern Poland, the Wolf’s Lair was the Nazis’ 6.5-square-kilometer (2.5-square-mile) Eastern Front headquarters.

Persons: Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Adrian Kostrzewa, Latebra, ”, Hitler Organizations: CNN —, Nazi, Latebra Foundation, CNN, Third Locations: Poland, Gierloz, Polish, Gdansk, Europe

☆ Analysis: In Poland, Donald Tusk is spoiling for a fight. His populist opponents are hitting back
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Rob Picheta | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The country’s public television channel, TVP, which essentially became a mouthpiece for the previous government, has been ripped off the air. Omar Marques/Getty ImagesBut Tusk – a politician with a reputation for pragmatism and restraint – showed his intentions within days of taking office. “It became symbolic of the excesses of the PiS government,” Bill said of TVP’s transformation into a Hungarian-style state-captured medium. “One of the unifying forces of PiS supporters is distrust, or even hatred, of Donald Tusk,” Kucharczyk said. Nonetheless, after eight years of populist rule that hardened the battle lines of Polish politics, much of the public is spoiling for a fight.

Persons: Donald Tusk, ”, “, Jacek Kucharczyk, Tusk, ’, Kucharczyk, Stanley Bill, Bill, “ It’s, Andrzej Duda, PiS, Omar Marques, –, Duda, ” Bill, ” Kucharczyk, TVP, ” Tusk, Ursula von der Leyen, Tusk’s, Jaap Arriens, messier Organizations: CNN, Law, Justice, of Public Affairs, Polish Studies, University of Cambridge, TVP, Twitter, National Media Council, Police, European Union, “ Locations: Poland, Polish, Warsaw, Hungarian, Tusk’s, Brussels, TVP

☆ Man surrenders to Polish police after incident that closed Warsaw square
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WARSAW, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Polish police negotiators persuaded a man to come down from a monument in a central Warsaw square, a spokesperson said, putting an end to an incident that had seen part of the capital cordoned off amid reports of a bomb threat. Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that at around 1130 GMT the man surrendered to police. Police spokesperson Sylwester Marczak told reporters officers had seen the man climbing onto the Smolensk monument at around 0800 GMT. quoted by the state-run PAP news agency, did not confirm the reports that the man was threatening to blow himself up. A guest at the Sofitel hotel, which faces the square, said they had been told to only leave the building by the back exit.

Persons: Sylwester Marczak, Lech Kaczynski, Maria, Thomas Holdstock, Kuba Stezycki, Alan Charlish, Sharon Singleton, Helen Popper, Mark Potter Organizations: Polish, Polsat, Police, Twitter, Reuters, Thomson Locations: WARSAW, Warsaw, Smolensk, Poland

☆ Polish police cordon off Warsaw square amid reports of bomb threat
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WARSAW, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Police cordoned off Warsaw's Pilsudski Square and the surrounding area of the Polish capital on Saturday, with local media reporting that a man had climbed onto a monument in the square and threatened to blow himself up. Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that at around 1130 GMT the man surrendered to police. Its footage showed him climbing down from the monument, taking off his jacket and walking away with his hands in the air. PAP said several hundred officers were involved in an operation around the square. A guest at the Sofitel hotel, which faces the square, said they had been told to only leave the building by the back exit.

Persons: Lech Kaczynski, Maria, Thomas Holdstock, Kuba Stezycki, Alan Charlish, Sharon Singleton, Helen Popper, Mark Potter Organizations: Police, Polsat, Twitter, Reuters, Thomson Locations: WARSAW, Poland, Smolensk

☆ Poland to bolster security on border with Belarus, interior minister says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

WARSAW, July 2 (Reuters) - Poland will send 500 police officers to its border with Belarus, Minister of Interior Mariusz Kaminski said on Sunday. The Polish Border Guard on Sunday said that 187 people tried to cross into Poland from Belarus illegally on Saturday. "Due to the tense situation on the border with Belarus I have decided to bolster our forces with 500 Polish police officers from preventive and counter-terrorism units," Kaminski wrote on Twitter. "They will join 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers guarding the security of this border." Reporting by Karol Badohal Editing by David GoodmanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mariusz Kaminski, Kaminski, Karol Badohal, David Goodman Organizations: WARSAW, Polish Border Guard, Twitter, Thomson Locations: Poland, Belarus

☆ Polish mother and son, 7, dead after plunging from Baltic Sea ferry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

WARSAW, June 30 (Reuters) - A Polish woman and her 7-year-old son have died after plunging from a Baltic Sea ferry travelling from Sweden to Poland, a Polish police spokesman said on Friday. Swedish authorities said on Thursday the child had fallen off the vessel and that the mother proceeded to jump overboard in an attempted rescue. The Swedish ferry, Stena Spirit, was in the Baltic midway through its journey to Gdynia in Poland from Karlskrona in Sweden when the incident occurred, rescue officials said on Thursday. "At the moment we have no information whether this was due to a malfunction of the ferry," Stena Line spokesperson Agnieszka Zembrzycka told TVN 24. Swedish police issued an appeal to Polish passengers via Poland's state-run news agency PAP asking for information that could explain how the accident occurred.

Persons: Mariusz Ciarka, Agnieszka Zembrzycka, Terje Solsvik, Alan Charlish, Anna Ringstrom, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: WARSAW, TVN, Thomson Locations: Polish, Baltic, Sweden, Poland, Swedish, Gdynia, Karlskrona, Oslo, Warsaw, Stockholm

CNN —Russia says it will retaliate after Polish authorities seized the Russian Embassy school in Warsaw, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Polish police and staff from the Warsaw city hall entered the campus Saturday morning, asking employees to leave the premises, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. But a Polish foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters that while Russia had a right to protest, they were acting within the law. “Our opinion, which has been confirmed by the courts, is that this property belongs to the Polish state and was taken by Russia illegally,” Lukasz Jasina said. The school will continue to operate from a different part of the Russian embassy, RIA added, quoting Russia’s ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev.

☆ Exploding grenade launcher a gift from Ukraine, Polish police chief says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WARSAW, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Poland's top policeman said that an explosion in his office was caused by a grenade launcher, telling private broadcaster RMF FM that he had received two of the weapons as a gift from Ukraine. Poland's interior ministry and prosecutor's office had not previously confirmed media reports that the explosion on Wednesday, at police headquarters in Warsaw, was caused by a grenade launcher. Prosecutors said they were investigating the blast, which resulted in Police Commander in Chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk being taken to hospital. "When I was moving the used grenade launchers, which were gifts from the Ukrainians, there was an explosion," Szymczyk told RMF FM. RMF cited a source from a Polish delegation that visited Ukraine as saying Szymczyk had received two launchers from officials as presents during visits to the police and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

☆ Poland's top police chief was injured after a gift he received from a Ukrainian official exploded, Polish authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Polish police commander suffered minor injuries after a gift he received from Ukraine exploded. Jarosław Szymczyk, the chief of Poland's police, suffered minor injuries from the explosion on Wednesday and was admitted to a hospital for observation, the Polish Interior Ministry said in a statement. According to the statement, the gift was from a head official of the Ukrainian Police and Emergency Situations. A civilian employee at the Polish headquarters also suffered minor injuries but did not require hospitalization, the ministry said. Poland's Interior Ministry and Ukraine's Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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