Warsaw - Polish leaders met with their Ukrainian and Lithuanian counterparts Wednesday for talks centred on the fallout from an ongoing trade dispute between Russia and Ukraine.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski met with his Ukrainian counterpart for an update on the row, which has effectively cut off gas supplies from Russia that would normally flow through Ukraine.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk met with his Lithuanian counterpart on Wednesday for talks on energy cooperation amid a gas dispute that saw Russia cut off gas through Ukraine.

Tusk and Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius discussed an energy bridge that would link Lithuania with Poland, and therefore the West. Lithuania is currently reliant on Moscow for its electricity.

The agenda included building a new nuclear plant at Ignalina to replace a Soviet-era facility that Lithuania agreed to shut down when it joined the European Union.

Warsaw  - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he aims to give priority to projects such as nuclear power stations and gas contracts in the wake of Moscow's recent cut-off of gas shipments.

"From my government's point of view, in times of energy instability, like the Russian-Ukraine crisis, our priority will be our citizens' energy security," Tusk said on Tuesday.

Tusk said Poland had fared well since the Kremlin cut off gas shipments to Ukraine last week, but said the future might be "less rosy."

Warsaw  - Some 500 people marched in support of Gaza at a demonstration in Warsaw on Saturday, while a smaller group gathered for a demonstration backing Israel.

The pro-Palestinian protesters carried photos of civilian victims and chanted "Free Palestine," in what was the largest demonstration in Poland since Israel launched airstrikes on the Strip two weeks ago.

"We lived through the same thing in 1939, when a visionary got the appetite for more land," said protestor Antoni Brzeziucha. "They lived through the Holocaust themselves, and now they're doing the same thing: killing innocent woman and children."

Warsaw - With a rise in the standard of living and European Union membership, fewer Poles now feel nostalgia for the days of communism, the daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Monday.

Twenty-seven per cent say communism was the best period for Poland, according to a survey in the daily of 1,004 people. The number is down from seven years ago, when 42 per cent reported they remembered that period fondly.

Warsaw - Some 100 people protested outside the Israeli embassy in Warsaw on Monday, calling for an end to "killing civilians" after three days of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

"What's happening in Gaza now is not a war against Hamas, it's a genocide against a people who've been kept imprisoned for the past two years," said a Palestinian protester who declined to give his name. "They're bombing mosques. They're bombing hospitals. Is this democracy?"