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Poland is investing massively in its armed forces. Tuesday's military parade was a demonstration of strength — a message not only for Russia, but also for the Polish electorate in the run-up to this fall's election.

Latest news on Lviv, a city in western Ukraine with a population of about 717,510

On 19 April, the German police and SS auxiliary forces entered the ghetto to complete the extermination. Its residents took refuge in bunkers and hideouts.

WARSAW (Sputnik) - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki expressed his outrage on Monday to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal over the celebration of... 02.01.2023, Sputnik International

The two nations now stand united against Russian aggression, but things could have been very different.

“Today we pay tribute to all those who were murdered by the Soviets and suffered as a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland 83 years ago,” Andrzej Duda said.

In the Second World War, in what today is known as Ukraine, Nataliia Mariichyn’s great-grandparents sheltered a Jewish family in their barn. Now she’s rebuilding her life in Montreal — and that Jewish family’s descendants are helping her.

Opinion Christoph Mick: “Kyiv is the heart of Ukraine, but Lviv is the soul.”

The west Ukrainian city has long been both a symbol of Ukrainian identity and an effevescent, multicultural hub.

Kanievsky was a hugely influential leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi community, with hundreds of thousands of followers; politicians laud 'one of the generation’s greats'