The resignation of Henryk Kowalczyk was seen as a political cost PiS had to pay to appease farmers angry at the flood of Ukrainian grain into the country and to enable the first state visit of Ukraine’s president to pass off smoothly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid his first state …

In other news, plans are in the works for Hungarian PM to visit Ukraine; Slovakia’s National Security Authority claims acting interior minister illegally accessed classified EU and NATO documents; and Poland gets 2 new ministers. Rental housing prices in the Czech Republic have risen dramatically over recent years, driven higher …

The battle for Bakhmut has already become the longest and bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine. Losses are high – on both sides, and the outcome is still uncertain. Why is Bahmut so important? Before this war, hardly anyone had heard of Bahmut, a small town of seventy thousand …