Ukrainian foreign minister calls for dialogue with Poland over army unit name
Sybiha said the row should not undermine nearly two years of resumed exhumations and historians’ talks as both countries face Russia’s threat.
- On Wednesday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called for dialogue with Poland to defuse tensions after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree naming a special operations unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army .
- Poland views the UPA as responsible for the Volhynia massacres, a series of killings from 1943 to 1945 in which around 100,000 Poles were killed, prompting Poland to officially recognize the events as genocide.
- Amid the controversy, Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced plans to strip Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honor, criticizing the decree as glorifying groups that led massacres during World War Two.
- Some coalition leaders oppose using the honor as a "bargaining chip," while Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned the decision "unnecessarily brings the issue of historical differences back to a rather alarming level."
- Sybiha stated the unit's name was a military choice to honor fighters against "imperial Moscow," urging both nations to "reduce the level of emotions" and focus on countering their common enemy, Russia.
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‘Like naming a unit after the Einsatzgruppen’ — Poland, Ukraine at Odds over Bandera
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has called for dialogue and de-escalation following a rapidly worsening dispute between Warsaw and Kyiv over President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s decision to grant an elite Ukrainian military unit the honorary title ‘Heroes of the UPA’, reviving one of the most painful historical controversies in Polish–Ukrainian relations. In a lengthy statement published in both Ukrainian and Polish, Sybiha argued that escal…
Ukrainian foreign minister calls for dialogue with Poland over army unit name
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on Wednesday for dialogue between Ukraine and Poland to help defuse tensions after Kyiv renamed an army unit after nationalist insurgents involved in massacres of Poles in World War Two.
Escalation between Ukraine and Poland benefits neither Ukrainians nor Poles
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha has emphasized that Ukrainian servicemen, in initiating the honorary title "Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Heroes" for a Special Operations Forces unit, had absolutely nothing anti-Polish in mind.
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