The Latest Breaking News from Poland

As the Russian offensive enters its third day we take a look at the key events during the day.

Leaders from Poland and Lithuania urged the European Union on Saturday to go further in their support for Ukraine in the face of a Russian invasion, as they headed into a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Poland’s football association on Saturday became the latest sporting body to cut links with Russia following the decision of the country’s president Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been fleeing the Russian invasion since Thursday and are trying to reach neighbouring Poland. The chaotic evacuation, with dozens of kilometres of traffic jams on the Ukrainian side, foreshadows a large-scale humanitarian crisis. Mehdi Chebil, FRANCE 24’s correspondent on the ground, reports.

Worried parents seek government support for their evacuation

‘We are waiting for some kind of help,’ says Olga Tsoi of Rogers Park, who grew up in Ukraine and was back visiting her mother when war broke out. ‘We are on our own.’

Footage captured by Independent TV shows a tailback of cars stretching for 40km

Poland is refusing to play its World Cup qualifier against Russia next month in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Polish football federation president said Saturday. Cezary Kulesza made the announcement on Twitter and indicated Poland was in talks with other federations to present a unified position to FIFA.…

Ex-Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, whose wife is Ukrainian, has spoken out on the conflict between Russia and Ukraine while issuing a demand to FIFA after Poland opted to boycott their World Cup play-off match in Moscow

Nine reception centres have been set up along border in Poland, which already has community of 1.5 million Ukrainians.

Nearly 120,000 people have so far fled Ukraine into Poland and other neighboring countries in the wake of Russian invasion, the UN refugee agency said on Saturday. The number was going up fast as Ukrainians grabbed their belongings and rushed to escape from a deadly Russian onslaught on their nation,…