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Michał Marczak’s new documentary 'Closure' follows Daniel Dymiński, a Polish father who has spent over two years searching the Vistula River for his teenage son, Krzysztof, who vanished from a bridge in 2023. The film avoids traditional true-crime tropes, instead focusing on the psychological toll of unresolved disappearance and the father’s struggle to find meaning in the absence of answers.
NATO forces from nine member countries completed a challenging river crossing exercise over the Vistula River in Poland as part of the Polish-led Dragon-24 military exercise, amid concerns about potential Russian aggression. The exercise, involving American, British, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Slovenian, and Lithuanian soldiers, aimed to practice defense coordination, logistics capabilities, and troop movement across Polish territory. The larger-scale Steadfast Defender-24 exercise, organized by NATO, will continue until the end of May and is intended to demonstrate the ability to counter any aggressive policies and provocative activities of the Russian Federation.
20,000 soldiers from nine NATO countries, including 15,000 from Poland, crossed Poland's Vistula river in a major readiness exercise called Dragon 24, testing NATO's capabilities and readiness against Russia. The operation is part of the larger NATO exercise Steadfast Defender, mobilizing around 90,000 soldiers in total, and is the alliance's largest since the Cold War. With increasing warnings of potential Russian aggression, Poland, a staunch supporter of Ukraine, has invested heavily in modern weapons systems and spends around 4% of its GDP on defense.