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Has Zelenskyy forfeited an honor — and Poland's sympathy?
Poland’s president is weighing a move to revoke Zelenskyy’s 2023 honor as lawmakers criticize his use of a wartime nationalist unit name.
- On May 26, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a decree naming a special forces unit 'Heroes of the UPA,' prompting Polish President Karol Nawrocki to announce plans to strip Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle.
- The Ukrainian Insurgent Army committed war crimes against ethnic Polish civilians, including massacres in Volhynia and Galicia during World War II, with victims estimated at more than 100,000.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized the decree for violating Poland's 'historical sensibility,' warning that if Poland and Ukraine continue quarreling about the past, 'the Kremlin will truly have reason to rejoice.'
- Nawrocki's motion forces a dilemma for Tusk, who must countersign any presidential decree to strip the honor; the award jury is set to discuss the case on June 8.
- This dispute threatens the military alliance ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk on June 25, as right-wing Poles increasingly question Warsaw's ongoing support for Ukraine.
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After the Ukrainian president named one of his country's military units "Heroes of the UPA" in late May, a meeting of the Chapter of the Order of the White Eagle was convened for Monday to, among other things, consider President Nawrocki's proposal to revoke Zelensky's Order. "Today, the Chapter of the Order of the White Eagle met to discuss the Order awarded to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The Chapter presented its opinion to the Pr…
Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk turns to the presidents of Ukraine and Poland with a click to hold a call to rozmov on the aphids, certainly awarded to the Ukrainian Viysky Pidrozdilu nimenuvannya in honor of the heroes of the UPA.
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