Ukrainian Journalist Dismissed After Insulting Polish President Amid Kyiv-Warsaw Tensions

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I have full respect for state institutions headed by the President of the Republic of Poland, assures Vitaly Mazurenko.

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The day before, in a program on the Polsat News channel, the journalist said that Karol Navrotsky's rhetoric and behavior “are not presidential behavior, but the behavior of a fan.” He expressed the opinion that the behavior of the President of Poland is directed against Ukrainian refugees.

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Vitaliy Mazurenko, a journalist, lost his job after making a controversial comment about President Karol Nawrocki on the program "Debata Gozdyry." Although the Ukrainian, who holds Polish citizenship, apologized for calling Nawrocki a "pachan," he may face serious consequences.

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The editorial team of the Obserwator Międzynarodowy portal, which included Vitaly Mazurenko, issued a statement. The statement states that the decision has been made to terminate cooperation with the Ukrainian journalist "with immediate effect." This follows Mazurenko's remarks from Tuesday evening. In a Polsat News program, he called President Karol Nawrocki a "pachan," meaning "criminal leader in Russian prisons."

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In my opinion, he met the requirement of defaming the head of state, wrote Marek Jakubiak, responding to the words of a Ukrainian journalist on the Gozdyra Debate. Vitaly Mazurenko, speaking on Polsat, described President Nawrocki as a de facto leader of a prison gang, noted MP Sebastian Kaleta. The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland also responded to the offensive phrase.