Poland owes Russia an enormous debt as the mere fact that it exists today is only thanks to the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the World War II, Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev said on Monday at the commemorative ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp's liberation

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be attending the Holocaust memorial events in Poland, as he never received an invitation, and therefore will send the ambassador to Warsaw in his place, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday

Polish President Andrzej Duda will not take part in Israel's commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, which was located in Poland, and instead send his Israel ambassador to the event, the country's deputy foreign minister said at a briefing on Tuesday

Newly declassified World War II documents from Soviet correspondences during the liberation of Poland reveal that at least 500 US and British nationals perished in Nazi concentration camps

The Barbadian minister of energy and water resources, Wilfred Arthur Abrahams, told Sputnik in an interview that the UN-sponsored Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage would be insufficient in helping island nations overcome the challenges posed by climate change

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on Thursday that Warsaw and Washington had completed negotiations on the former's purchase of 32 US-made F-35 fighter jets and were expected to finalize the acquisition by the end of the month