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The gunman who killed six people in a shooting on Kraków's Main Market Square on 7 November died in hospital on 9 November from wounds inflicted when police shot him during the attack, Małopolska police said. The toll stands at six dead and 15 injured in the square, plus three more found dead at the gunman's family home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, for nine dead in total. President Karol Nawrocki and Prime Minister Donald Tusk led a silent march through the square on 9 November, as officials named more of the victims, including a 53-year-old painter from Chodzież and a 51-year-old Austrian woman.
The US ambassador to NATO, Whitaker, said on 10 November that Washington will carry out President Donald Trump's decision to send more American troops to Poland, though numbers and timing are undecided, Defence24 reported. Britain and France are leading a 2,800-strong exercise in Poland, called Koalicja, from 9 to 22 November, rehearsing a future European deployment to Ukraine after any ceasefire. On 3 November, bomb threats forced a LOT flight from London to divert to Warsaw's Modlin airport and an SAS flight from Copenhagen to land under alert at Chopin airport; no devices were found.
Updated by the ECTV Crisis Desk, based on 4 verified stories from the past seven days.
ECTV has published 2 verified stories on Poland in the past seven days. The most recent, updated 11 November 2026: US ambassador says Washington will send more troops to Poland.
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US envoy to NATO Whitaker said Washington is carrying out Donald Trump's plan for more American troops in Poland, though numbers and timing are undecided.
3 independent sources · 55% confidencePoland will pay 100,000 zloty in state aid to each police officer wounded in Saturday's Kraków shooting, authorities said, as the toll stands at nine dead.
Updated : Each police officer wounded in the Kraków attack will receive 100,000 zloty in state aid, Polish media say.
399 independent sources · 98% confidenceBritain and France are leading a 2,800-strong exercise in Poland from 9-22 November to test a future European force for post-ceasefire Ukraine.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceA Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen to Warsaw landed safely at Chopin Airport on Tuesday after receiving a bomb threat, the airline said.
2 independent sources · 54% confidenceA LOT flight from Heathrow diverted to Modlin after a bomb threat on Tuesday; the airport reopened after inspectors found no suspicious items.
32 independent sources · 98% confidenceNearly 2,800 troops from ten countries will test deploying forces to Ukraine once a ceasefire holds, in exercises starting 9 November in Poland.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceA judge suspended the Constitutional Tribunal's president and deputy on Friday, prompting protests, a knife-and-pistol arrest and President Nawrocki's hurried return from Senegal.
22 independent sources · 98% confidenceForeign minister Radoslaw Sikorski called for a swift truce to let Ukrainian and Russian grain exports move safely, while insisting Kyiv must have a seat in any peace talks.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceA 24-year-old man turned violent while a Kraków pharmacist treated his hand wound on Friday morning, injuring her and two colleagues, police said.
5 independent sources · 98% confidencePolish newspaper WP cites a Czech military development document describing equipment gaps and limited wartime stocks.
1 independent sources · 30% confidenceGazeta Wyborcza says a specialist laboratory near the Polish capital will service Patriot missiles.
1 independent sources · 40% confidenceA Warsaw court held a 25-year-old Ukrainian man, named only as Artem S., for seven days over suspected sabotage at Romania's Carfil arms plant.
6 independent sources · 98% confidenceThe US Department of War picked Poland over Germany, the Netherlands and Norway to host a facility servicing PAC-3 interceptor missiles, officials said.
2 independent sources · 59% confidenceA gas explosion ripped through a third-floor flat in a Częstochowa apartment block on Saturday; police suspect it was not accidental.
2 independent sources · 69% confidenceProsecutors charged the 37-year-old suspect in the Warsaw hotel cleaver attack with attempted murder; the 58-year-old victim remains in a life-threatening condition.
8 independent sources · 98% confidencePolish military investigators said an object that fell near a building in Lubaczów was a small, unarmed foam airframe, ruling out any radiological, chemical or explosive threat.
2 independent sources · 69% confidenceForeign minister Radosław Sikorski said Poland has none left to spare, as a global shortage of Patriot interceptors deepens after strikes on Iran.
3 independent sources · 73% confidencePoland's government security centre warned residents of two border provinces and scrambled fighter jets during a Russian air attack on Ukraine on Tuesday evening.
3 independent sources · 83% confidenceWroclaw's 3,000 evacuated residents can go home after sappers removed a 250kg wartime bomb, but a second device found nearby forced a fresh evacuation of 500 people.
4 independent sources · 98% confidencePete Hegseth said only a handful of NATO allies were truly involved in Afghanistan combat, prompting rebukes from London and Warsaw.
2 independent sources · 79% confidenceAnalysts in Vilnius tested a scenario where a revolt in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave escalates into a Russia-NATO confrontation.
4 independent sources · 98% confidenceGeneral Zenon Brzuszko says allied interoperability will be tested in a scenario involving the defence of Poland.
1 independent sources · 40% confidenceThe Polish foreign minister responded to Pete Hegseth's comments about NATO contributions to the Afghanistan mission.
5 independent sources · 40% confidenceA search team found nothing near Lublin and Poland's alert was lifted, as Lithuania and Latvia issued separate airspace warnings the same morning.
5 independent sources · 98% confidenceReports citing Defence24 and The Times say soldiers from Britain, Germany and France may train for a potential future Ukraine stabilisation mission.
1 independent sources · 30% confidenceAn official yellow weather warning affects Mazowieckie Province Płoński County; further local impacts are not confirmed.
1 independent sources · 70% confidenceUK forces will join allies in a major exercise preparing for possible support to Ukraine after a settlement.
6 independent sources · 98% confidencePolish fire service officials said flames trapped the firefighters during an operation at a commercial premises.
2 independent sources · 74% confidencePoland's air force scrambled fighters twice within hours as Russia launched strikes on Ukraine, triggering and then lifting alerts for Lublin region residents.
2 independent sources · 69% confidenceThe head of NATO's military operations told Bloomberg Television in Poland that Europeans should boost support for Ukraine in response to Russian hybrid attacks.
1 independent sources · 40% confidence