Rzeszów, a large Polish city in close proximity to the country’s border with Ukraine, is an instrumental location in the flow of Western equipment.
While in Warsaw on January 13, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius emphasized Rzeszow’s importance as a logistics hub for aiding Ukraine and confirmed plans to visit the area this month to oversee the deployment of Patriot air defense systems.
But not all of the leading conservative populist parties in the world are the same — in rhetoric or on policy.
Germany's cabinet has decided to authorise the army to shoot down suspicious drones seen near military sites or other critical infrastructure.
After years in which Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been accused of treading lightly on European and world stages, conservative election front-runner Friedrich Merz has vowed a bold return to international affairs.
The defense ministers of Europe’s five top military spenders say they intend to continue increasing their investments in defense but described President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge for them to raise spending to 5% of their overall economic output as extremely difficult.
The meeting of the defence ministers from the EU's largest countries together with the deputy defence minister of Great Britain comes as Poland begins its rotating presidency of the EU and as Europe braces for the unpredictability of a new Donald Trump presidency.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has held further discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of Western troops deploying in Ukraine to safeguard any peace d
Ralf Stegner, a member of Germany's Social Democratic Party, called Trump's comments "delusional and truly insane." Poland has backed Trump's demand.
Part of Poland's sales pitch to Trump will be that the country's defence spending largely benefits the US in any case: Warsaw has purchased several hundred Abrams tanks, 32 F-35A fighters, 96 Apache helicopters and HIMARS launchers from Washington in recent years.
but one of the city’s most memorable is the Warsaw Uprising Monument. This 33-foot-tall bronze sculpture was created to commemorate the thousands of Poles who fought against Nazi Germany (which ...
80 years ago, on Jan. 17, 1945, Soviet and Polish military formations entered Warsaw bringing an end to years of Nazi occupation—however, this did not bring liberation but a new wave of terror and repression.