Marek Kuchciński, a former parliamentary speaker, has been appointed a minister at the Prime Minister's Office by President Andrzej Duda, which he is also expected to run.
The value of Polish military assistance to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion has exceeded EUR 1.8 billion, according to the head of Poland's Prime Minister's Office.
The Polish government will be “just as bad” with or without Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s governing party leader who is also a deputy prime minister, Donald Tusk, the leader of the main opposition party, has claimed.
Support programmes for women soldiers freed from Russian captivity and children who have lost their fathers to the war in Ukraine were announced on Monday by a senior Polish prime-ministerial aide and the Ukrainian deputy prime minister.