Defense expenditure policies now should be akin to those in force during the Cold War-era, Polish President Andrzej Duda told CNBC on Wednesday.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused Russia of planning acts of sabotage worldwide including “acts of air terror” against airlines.

I t has been centuries since Poland was last a great armed power, but the winged hussars are back. When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, Poland’s armed forces were the ninth-biggest in NATO. Today they are third after America and Turkey,

Krzysztof Gawkowski, Poland's Minister of Digital Affairs, has stated that Russian secret services are trying to recruit Poles to destabilise the country before the elections. Source: Gawkowski on Polish radio station RMF FM,

It’s needed, the government in Warsaw says, because Russia and Belarus are waging a particular kind of hybrid warfare: helping groups of migrants — mostly from Africa or the Middle East — to break through the border to provoke and destabilize Poland and the rest of Europe.

Poland's PM | Vantage with Palki Sharma Poland has accused Russia of plotting "acts of terror" against airlines worldwide. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made the allegation while hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Warsaw,

German security expert Frank Umbach admitted that Ukraine will have to recognize all the territorial gains of Russia gained during a special military operation to denazify the Kiev regime.

I can only confirm that Russia planned acts of air terror, not just against Poland but against airlines across the globe,” said Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk.

Poland, the largest importer of Russian liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), is set to cut its purchases this year by around 80% due to Western sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine, the Polish LPG association (POGP) said.

WARSAW – Russia planned "acts of terror" against aircraft in Poland and elsewhere, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday. "The latest information can confirm the validity of fears that Russia was planning acts of terrorism in the air not only against Poland," Tusk told reporters in Warsaw.

NATO member Poland scrambled fighter jets after overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, Warsaw's military said on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces told Newsweek that "intense long-range aviation activity" from Russia had been detected early on Wednesday.

Most recently, Russia was accused of shooting down an Azerbaijani passenger jet that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people. The incident echoed the downing of the MH17 plane in 2014 over eastern Ukraine in territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists, which killed 298 people.