9 January – Former Interior Minister
Mariusz Kaminski and his then-deputy
Maciej Wasik are arrested by police inside the
Presidential Palace in
Warsaw following a legal dispute over their conviction and pardon for abuse of power.[1] They are pardoned for a second time by President
Andrzej Duda on 23 January.[2]
March
1 March – Nineteen people are injured, including six children in a
vehicle-ramming attack in
Szczecin. Police rule out terrorism, and the suspect is found to have a history of mental illness.[3]
18 April –A Polish national is arrested on suspicion of collecting intelligence at
Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport for Russia as part of a plot to assassinate Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit there, following a tip from Ukrainian authorities.[9][10]
12 May – A fire breaks out at the
Marywilska 44 shopping complex in the
Białołęka district of Warsaw, engulfing most of its 1,400 shops and service outlets.[13]
28 May – A soldier is injured after being stabbed along the
Poland-Belarus border by a migrant trying to enter the country illegally during a patrol in
Podlaskie Voivodeship.[16] He later dies of his injuries on 6 June.[17]
29 May:
The
Polish Defence Ministry gives Ukraine permission to use Polish-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russian territory.[18]
Two border guards are injured in an attack by migrants along the Poland-Belarus border.[19]
Poland announces a "no-go zone" in the
Białowieża Forest in order to prevent migrants from crossing
the border from Belarus. In response, concerns are raised about the potential impact on
tourism during the summer.[22]
26 June – The leaders of Poland,
Lithuania,
Latvia, and
Estonia call on the
European Union to construct a
€2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and
Russia and
Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats.[24]