Polish military
The Polish military, known as the Wojsko Polskie, comprises the armed forces of the Republic of Poland: Land Forces, Navy, Air Force, and Special Forces. The president serves as supreme commander, with operational leadership vested in the Chief of the General Staff and the Minister of National Defence. Since 2022, Poland has pursued a major programme of military modernisation and personnel expansion in response to the war in neighbouring Ukraine. Polish forces participate in NATO and EU missions and constitute one of the alliance's largest conventional armies on its eastern flank.
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Russian drones strike Kyiv-Warsaw train and infrastructure near Polish border, prompting Polish emergency meeting
On the morning of September 13, 2026, Russian drones struck infrastructure near the Yahodyn-Dorohusk international border crossing on the Ukraine-Poland border in Volyn Oblast, damaging a gas station, hitting a truck on the Polish side, and striking the locomotive of a Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train about two kilometers from the Polish border. Poland scrambled fighter jets, issued air alerts in Lublin and Podkarpackie voivodeships, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk convened an emergency meeting at the Government Centre for Security, warning that Russian escalation could reach Polish territory in the coming weeks. No passengers or railway workers were injured in the locomotive strike after a Ukrzaliznytsia monitoring group warned the crew in advance and gave an evacuation signal roughly 15 minutes before impact.