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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. The law is for investigating Russia's alleged influence in Poland that is targeting the opposition, especially Tusk, and may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s president approves law on Russia’s influence that could target opposition

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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. The law is for investigating Russia's alleged influence in Poland that is targeting the opposition, especially Tusk, and may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president seeks experts’ advice on contentious law targeting opposition

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Poland's opposition leader and former prime minister, Donald Tusk, watches lawmakers vote to approve a contentious draft law in parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, May 26, 2023. The law is for investigating Russia's alleged influence in Poland that is targeting the opposition, especially Tusk, and may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s lawmakers approve contentious law targeting opposition

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

FILE - Journalist Andrzej Poczobut stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Grodno, Belarus, on Jan. 16, 2023. Belarus' Supreme Court on Friday, May 26, 2023, upheld an eight-year prison sentence that was handed to a journalist and prominent member of the country's sizeable Polish minority as part of the government's sweeping, years-long crackdown on opposition figures, human rights activists and independent reporters. The Court rejected the appeal of Andrzej Poczobut, a 50-year-old reporter with Gazeta Wyborcza, an influential Polish newspaper.(Leonid Shcheglov/Pool via AP, File)

Belarus upholds 8-year prison sentence for journalist of top Polish newspaper

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris in her ceremonial office on the White House complex in Washington, on April 11, 2023. Poland's ruling party is pushing for the creation of a commission which it says would investigate Russian influence. Morawiecki said that the commission was needed to verify the past and also remove any remaining Russian influence for the future. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Polish ruling party wants commission to investigate Russian influence; critics fear witch hunt

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

A woman stands near a mass grave and a monument in the village of Chlaniow, Poland, on June 19, 2013 that holds the bodies of Poles killed in a 1944 attack on the village by the Nazi SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion. Officials in Poland and Ukraine, staunch strategic partners, have unexpectedly exchanged bitter remarks regarding a painful mutual past that includes mass murder. Seeking to calm emotions, an aide to Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Monday May 22, 2023 that the Poles only wanted the truth and respect for the tens of thousands of Polish victims. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) **FILE**

Strategic partners Poland and Ukraine spar over painful past

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Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela speaks during an interview in a cafe in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday May 17, 2023. Hamela has made a documentary film about Ukrainians fleeing war, "In the Rearview," which is being shown at the Cannes film festival but is not in competition. When Polish filmmaker Maciek Hamela first began evacuating Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war on their country, he wasn't intending to make a film. He was one of the many Poles extending humanitarian aid to neighbors under attack. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

At Cannes, Polish filmmaker’s ‘In the Rearview’ spotlights Ukrainians escaping war

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, center, walks during ceremony after receiving its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers, at an air base in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, 15 May 2023. Poland has received its first shipment of U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers, part of an upgrade of its defenses amid security concerns due to the war in neighboring Ukraine. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland gets 1st U.S.-made HIMARS rocket launchers amid concerns over war in Ukraine

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

People gather to watch a festive parade marking the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad, Russia's westernmost city, Friday, July 1, 2005. Poland's map authorities have advised the return to the historic name of Russia's neighbouring city and the administrative region of Kaliningrad, which is Krolewiec. The decision by a commission for geographic names abroad advising the reversal took effect this week, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)

Poland reverts to historic name Krolewiec for Russia’s Kaliningrad

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A wreath placed by Russia's ambassador to Poland lies in front of an installation representing Russian crimes in Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday May 9, 2023. The one-day installation was set up by Ukrainian activists on the day when Russia celebrates the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II. The large installation blocked the path of Russia's ambassador to Poland and prevented him from placing the wreath at a Warsaw memorial to Soviet soldiers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukraine flags block Russian ambassador’s path on Victory Day

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

This file photo from May 12, 2015, shows Russian ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev during a news conference in Warsaw, Poland. The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in protest Friday after a former Russian official suggested that it would be acceptable to assassinate Poland's ambassador to Russia. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) **FILE**

Poland summons Russian ambassador over assassination comment

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Anna Stupnicka-Bando, left, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, walks with Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, at a ceremony for the burial of a "time capsule" on the grounds of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday April 18, 2023. The time capsule contains memorabilia and a message to future generations. It was buried on the grounds of a former children's hospital, a building that will house the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, which is scheduled to open in three years. Tuesday's ceremony comes on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the largest single Jewish revolt against German forces during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Polish soldiers begin laying a razor wire barrier along Poland's border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in Wisztyniec, Poland, Wednesday Nov. 2, 2022. Poland's interior minister says a state-of-the-art electronic barrier is being built on land border with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave, which is also European Union frontier, to monitor and counteract any illegal activity. Minister Mariusz Kaminski said Tuesday, April 18, 2023 earthwork has begun for the barrier that will be equipped in 24-hour monitoring cameras and motion detectors. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc, File)

Poland building electronic barrier on border with Russia

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Smoke rises from chimneys of the Turow power plant located by the Turow lignite coal mine near the town of Bogatynia, Poland, on Nov. 19, 2019. A scheme to develop small nuclear power reactors in Poland is moving forward, with a co-operation agreement between the Polish energy giant ORLEN and two U.S. government financial institutions. Poland, which has traditionally relied heavily on its own coal and Russian energy imports, is seeking a shift toward renewable and non-carbon energy. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

U.S. ready to lend Poland $4 billion for nuclear energy plan

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A dump track unloads grain in a granary in the village of Zghurivka, Ukraine, Aug. 9, 2022. Poland’s new agriculture minister vowed Wednesday to introduce detailed quality controls on the massive inflow of grain from Ukraine transiting through the country, and to ensure its efficient transport abroad. The move follows protests by angry Polish farmers, who say they face bankruptcy because of a glut of cheap Ukrainian grain (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Poland prohibits food imports from Ukraine to soothe farmers

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Germany approves Poland’s request to send jets to Ukraine

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Jewish people visit the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp after the March of the Living annual observance, in Oswiecim, Poland, April 28, 2022. Israel’s national Holocaust memorial has criticized a new agreement renewing Israeli school trips to Poland, saying it recommends a number of “problematic sites” that distort history. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Israeli Holocaust memorial criticizes deal with Poland

By Josef Federman and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki leaves after an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, on March 24, 2023. Morawiecki flew Tuesday, April 11, to the United States for meetings aimed at strengthening the economic and defense cooperation of the two nations. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool, File)

Polish PM Morawiecki heads to U.S. to further strengthen defense ties

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In this image provided by U.S. Transportation Command, a stevedore sits in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle before loading it onto the ARC Wallenius Wilhemsen Jan. 25, 2023, at the Transportation Core Dock in North Charleston, S.C. After months of agonizing, the U.S has agreed to send longer-range bombs to Ukraine as it prepares to launch a spring offensive to retake territory Russia captured last year, U.S. officials said Thursday, confirming that the new weapons will have roughly double the range of any other offensive weapon provided by America. (Oz Suguitan/U.S. Transportation Command via AP) **FILE**

New U.S. warehouse center in Poland to store tanks, Bradleys for future fights

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Fencers compete in the men's individual semifinal Sabre competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on July 24, 2021, in Chiba, Japan. A fencing World Cup event in Poland has been canceled because the sport’s governing body decided last month to let Russians and Belarusians compete, it was announced Wednesday, April 5, 2023. The Polish Fencing Association says it will not host the Olympic qualifying event for women’s foil from April 21-23 in Poznan. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, file)

Poland scraps fencing event because of Russian participation

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