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Recent events

• On 16 August, the 17th-century wooden St. Nicholas' Church was completely destroyed by a fire at the Museum of Folk Architecture in Sanok.
• On 15 August, a 55.6-meter tall statue of Our Lady of Mercy (pictured), Europe's tallest effigy of Virgin Mary, was unveiled in Konotopie.
• On 28 June, a temperature reading of 40.5 °C was recorded in Słubice, breaking the country's all-time temperature record from 1921.
• On 15 June, Semyon Skrepetsky, a neo-primitivist Russian artist exiled in Poland, was assassinated in Biała Podlaska three days after holding a one-man anti-Putin protest in Berlin.

Ongoing

• Polish constitutional crisis • Belarus–EU border crisis • Ukrainian refugee crisis

Holidays and observances in August 2026
(statutory public holidays in bold)

• Assumption Day and Polish Armed Forces Day (military aircraft pictured), 15 April
• Solidarity and Freedom Day, 31 August

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