Marcin Kierwiński
Marcin Kierwiński is a Polish politician and member of Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska). He served as Minister of the Interior and Administration in Donald Tusk's government and as Deputy Marshal of the Sejm. He is known as a close ally of Donald Tusk and a prominent figure in Polish domestic politics.
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Poland imposes five-year Schengen entry ban on Lviv regional council deputy Sheremeta
Poland has banned Svyatoslav Sheremeta, a deputy of the Lviv Oblast Council and director of the memorial-search centre "Dolya", from entering and staying in the Schengen Area for five years, until 20 October 2031. Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński announced the ban on 21 October, on a request filed by Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. The move follows a 20 October vote by the Lviv Oblast Council, initiated by Sheremeta, to declare 2027 the year of Roman Shukhevych, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and Oleh Olzhych.
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Poland receives information on alleged assassination plot targeting PM Tusk and defence minister
Polish authorities announced on 11 October that police had received information about a possible assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Ministers Tomasz Siemoniak and Marcin Kierwiński ordered a security response, and an inter-agency meeting was scheduled at the Counter-Terrorism Centre of Poland's Internal Security Agency.
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Ukrainian citizen attacks Benedictine monastery in Poland, killing at least one priest
A 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen carried out a knife attack on the morning of 24 September at a Benedictine sisters' monastery in Jarosław, in southeastern Poland, killing at least one priest and injuring five other people. The attacker was detained at the scene. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk both responded, with Zelensky calling it a "horrible crime" and Tusk pledging full enforcement of Polish law.
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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.