9 January – Former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and his then-deputy Maciej Wasik are arrested by police inside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw following a legal dispute over their conviction and pardon for abuse of power.[1] They are pardoned for a second time by President Andrzej Duda on 23 January.[2]
March
1 March – Nineteen people are injured, including six children in a vehicle-ramming attack in Szczecin. Police rule out terrorism, and the suspect is found to have a history of mental illness.[3]
18 April –A Polish national is arrested on suspicion of collecting intelligence at Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport for Russia as part of a plot to assassinate Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his visit there, following a tip from Ukrainian authorities.[9][10]
12 May – A fire breaks out at the Marywilska 44 shopping complex in the Białołęka district of Warsaw, engulfing most of its 1,400 shops and service outlets.[13]
28 May – A soldier is injured after being stabbed along the Poland-Belarus border by a migrant trying to enter the country illegally during a patrol in Podlaskie Voivodeship.[16] He later dies of his injuries on 6 June.[17]
29 May:
The Polish Defence Ministry gives Ukraine permission to use Polish-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russian territory.[18]
Two border guards are injured in an attack by migrants along the Poland-Belarus border.[19]
Poland announces a "no-go zone" in the Białowieża Forest in order to prevent migrants from crossing the border from Belarus. In response, concerns are raised about the potential impact on tourism during the summer.[22]
26 June – The leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia call on the European Union to construct a €2.5 billion (US$2.67 billion) defence line between them and Russia and Belarus to secure the EU from military, economic, and migrant-related threats.[24]
9 August – Prime Minister Donald Tusk announces that a six-month investigation had uncovered the illegal spending of 100 billion zlotys ($25 billion) in public funds by the previous Law and Justice government, resulting in charges against 62 officials.[28]
24 August – South Africa blocks the transfer of 50,000 purchased artillery shells to Poland, citing concerns that they would be sent to Ukraine for use in the Russo-Ukrainian War.[29]
26 August – 26 August 2024 Russian strikes on Ukraine: Poland says that a drone had likely entered its airspace during the attacks on Ukraine and that searches were underway for the object as it may have landed in Polish territory.[30]
The Polish Armed Forces bestows military ranks to service dogs for the first time in its history.[36]
10 September – Prime Minister Donald Tusk condemns Germany's new land border restrictions due to Germany's lack of support for other European Union nations impacted by irregular migration, for not securing the bloc's eastern border against Russian and Belarusian hybrid warfare, and for not supporting Poland's own irregular migration controls.[37]
15–27 September – At least nine people are killed amid flooding caused by Storm Boris.[39][40]
October
3 October – The government introduces a ban on the sale of alcohol at petrol stations from 22:00 to 06:00.[41]
12 October –
Prime Minister Donald Tusk announces plans to temporarily suspend the right of migrants to seek asylum in Poland, citing abuses by people smugglers aided by Belarus and Russia.[42]
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