🇵🇱🇺🇸 #Poland signed an agreement with the United States for the delivery of a $960 million airspace reconnaissance system to monitor its north-eastern borders, defence minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday.
During my long May weekend in Kraków I had a rare occasion to grab a few beers with my remote teammates. We finished the evening early, but two of us decided we're not done and went for a late night walk.
Half an hour before the alcohol prohibition (yup, it's a thing in this one city in Poland!) we bought a few beers and started sipping them illegally in one of the local parks.
And guess what? Well, my teammate had a skateboard. And I had my fastest lens on my camera.
So, what happened next? Well, around 2am somewhere in the center of Kraków one IT nerd started testing his old skateboard skills. The other IT nerd sat on the ground and started stress-testing his Viltrox f/1.4 lens and an ISO setting well above 20k.
My lovely friend successfully landed a few jumps.
I missed a lot of frames because focusing late at night is hard, but a few serviceable frames happened as well.
So yeah. 90% of people will stop to look at my boring touristy snapshots and move on. I'm more excited about this spontaneous drunk session in extreme lighting conditions. 🤷
Once Polish, and now Ukrainian, the PT-91 Twardy tank (a deep modernization of the T-72) is in service with the 22nd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The crew of the tankers of this almost 30-year-old vehicle (the tank was produced in 1995) says that compared to the Soviet T-72, their tank has a more powerful forced-up engine (850 hp versus 780 hp of the export T-72), with a “faster” reverse gear. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Poland
#Poland's prime minister announced on Tuesday the re-establishment of a commission to look into undue Russian influence, as #Warsaw grapples with what it says is an intense campaign by #Moscow to destabilise the country.
"I issued an order on the establishment of a commission to investigate Russian and Belarusian influence on the internal security and interests of the Republic of Poland in the years 2004-2024," Prime Minister Donald #Tusk said.
Poland has 9 suspects detained & indicted, who are directly implicated in the name of Russian intelligence services of #sabotage in Poland
They are Polish, Ukrainian, & Belarusian. They may have been recruited from criminal circles
Acts of sabotage include beatings, #arson, & attempted arson, not just in Poland but also #Latvia, #Lithuania, even #Sweden. The group planned to set fire a factory in #Poland & #Ikea in Lithuania
🇵🇱 #Poland has arrested nine people in connection with acts of sabotage committed in the country on the orders of Russian services, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said late on Monday.
The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.
It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.
My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?
President Zelensky and Poland's Prime Minister Tusk agreed to immediately start preparing a security agreement.
The conversation focused on the situation in the Kharkiv region, where Russian forces have launched a new offensive, and Ukraine's air defense needs "to protect Kharkiv and other regions."
According to the president, he and the Polish prime minister also discussed the threat posed by Russia to gas infrastructure in western Ukraine and ways to counter it. #AureFreePress#Poland
Polacy odchodzą od oglądania tradycyjnej telewizji – w to miejsce na znaczeniu zyskują platformy streamingowe. Co ciekawe, nie tylko te, oferujące swoje usługi w modelu subskrypcyjnym czy abonamencie, ale także bez żadnych opłat.
Losses caused by the Polish blockade of the Ukrainian border amounted to $500 million in lost imports and $160 million in exports in its first month, the National Bank of Ukraine said on May 14.
Gdzie oglądać transmisje sportowe za darmo? Polacy nie lubią płacić... (interaktywnie.com) Polish
Polacy odchodzą od oglądania tradycyjnej telewizji – w to miejsce na znaczeniu zyskują platformy streamingowe. Co ciekawe, nie tylko te, oferujące swoje usługi w modelu subskrypcyjnym czy abonamencie, ale także bez żadnych opłat.
National Bank: Ukraine's losses from Polish blockade partially offset by maritime trade (kyivindependent.com)
Losses caused by the Polish blockade of the Ukrainian border amounted to $500 million in lost imports and $160 million in exports in its first month, the National Bank of Ukraine said on May 14.