9 February – Poland announces the closure of a major border crossing with Belarus "until further notice" amid heightened tensions between the two countries. There are currently only two checkpoints open between the two nations.[2]
25 February – Refiner PKN Orlen announces that Russia has suspended oil exports to Poland via the northern branch of the Druzhba pipeline.[3]
26 May – Poland's Parliament voted for a law that will establish a commission to investigate alleged Russian influence during the period from 2007 to 2022. The law was accepted by president Andrzej Duda. The law was widely criticised for being non-democratic and an attempt to eliminate opposition politicians and followers.[6][7][8][9][10]
30 May – far-right politician Grzegorz Braun disrupted a lecture on the Holocaust by the historian Jan Grabowski at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw by storming in and destroying the microphone and speakers. Braun has been quoted accusing Jews of being "the enemies of Poland" and alleging their desire to undertake a "hostile takeover" of Polish territory and to place ethnic Poles in reservations.[11][12]
11 August – Nearly 14,000 residents of the city of Lublin, are ordered to evacuate, after an unexploded bomb was found yesterday at the site of a pre-World War II factory.[20]
15 September – The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs fires its legal chief and cancels all contracts to outsource visa applications after seven are charged in a visas-for-cash scandal.[22]
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announces that Poland will stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, amid tensions between the two countries over the former's import ban on Ukrainian agricultural products.[24]
Vasyl Zvarych, Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland, is summoned by the Polish Foreign Ministry to convey its strong protest over the statement of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the United Nations General Assembly. Zelenskyy's statement that some European countries' actions indirectly help Russia, drew condemnation from Poland.[25]
2023 Polish referendum Results: 96.79% voted against the admission of thousands of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa, 96.49% voted against selling off of state assets to foreign entities, 96.04% voted against the removal of the barrier on the border between Poland and Belarus, 94.61% voted against increasing the retirement age, however the main opposition parties boycott the referendum results in a turnout of only 40.91% which was less than the minimum validity threshold of 50%. Which meant the results were not legally binding.
12 December – far-right politician Grzegorz Braun during the first session of the 10th term of Sejm, put out a Hanukkah menorah by spraying it with a fire extinguisher, saying that "The people participating in the Satanic cult should be ashamed".[30][31][32]
19 December – The start of the 2023 Polish public media crisis. The new Liberal government dismissed the directors of TVP, Polish Radio and Polish Press Agency. The move was met with criticism and accusations of illegality by the dismissed management and the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, causing a parliamentary intervention in the TVP headquarters.
29 December – Russia launches the largest wave of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities since the start of the war in a widespread overnight assault on cities across the country, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 160 others. One of the Russiancruise missiles enters NATO airspace as it travels over Polish territory, prompting the Polish government to summon the Russian charge d'affaires for an explanation.[34]
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