{"id":2431,"date":"2026-06-19T20:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2431"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:39:20","slug":"poland-strips-zelenskiy-of-top-honour-as-ww2-dispute-sours-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2431","title":{"rendered":"Poland strips Zelenskiy of top honour as WW2 dispute sours ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>WARSAW, June 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Poland&#8217;s president has decided to strip Volodymyr Zelenskiy of the country&#8217;s top \u200bhonour after Ukraine&#8217;s head of state caused outrage by renaming an army unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), nationalists who massacred Poles \u200cin World War Two.<\/div>\n<div>President Karol Nawrocki&#8217;s decision looked likely to unleash a severe diplomatic crisis between the neighbours just days ahead of a conference on Ukraine&#8217;s reconstruction in the Polish city of Gdansk.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;In light of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy&#8217;s consent to name one of the units of the Armed Forces \u200bof Ukraine \u201cHeroes of the UPA,\u201d&#8230; I have decided to revoke the Order of the White Eagle from the President \u200bof Ukraine,&#8221; Nawrocki said in a statement.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;At this point, I would like to emphasize: this decision is \u2060not directed against the Ukrainian people. It does not signify a change in the strategic direction of Polish security policy.&#8221;<\/div>\n<h2>STRAINED RELATIONS<\/h2>\n<div>While \u200bWarsaw is a strong supporter of Kyiv&#8217;s war effort, public sentiment towards Ukraine has become more and more negative in recent \u200byears due to weariness with refugees, disputes over grain imports and the legacy of World War Two-era massacres of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists.<\/div>\n<div>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called the decision a &#8220;strategic error&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We regret that instead of looking for solutions, the Polish side decided to escalate this conflict to an unacceptable \u200band inappropriate level,&#8221; he wrote on Facebook. &#8220;No president of another country is going to dictate our history to us.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>A spokesperson for \u200bthe government of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a political opponent of Nawrocki who had sought to defuse the dispute, could not immediately be reached \u200cfor \u2060comment.<\/div>\n<h2>ORDER OF THE WHITE EAGLE<\/h2>\n<div>Former president Andrzej Duda awarded Zelenskiy the Order of the White Eagle in 2023 in recognition of his contributions to bilateral relations, democracy, peace and security in Europe and for &#8220;steadfastness in defending inalienable human rights&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>But Nawrocki said in May that an advisory council should discuss stripping Zelenskiy of the honour after he signed a decree recognising a Ukrainian special forces unit&#8217;s \u200bcontribution to the fight against Russian \u200bforces by naming it after \u2060the UPA.<\/div>\n<div>The decision caused outrage across the political spectrum in Poland. Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa said he would no longer wear a badge with the Ukrainian \u200bflag and while he still supported the nation in its fight against Russia he would \u200bnot support Zelenskiy.<\/div>\n<div>Some \u2060Ukrainians regard the UPA as heroes for the resistance they mounted against the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and as symbols of Kyiv&#8217;s struggle for independence from Moscow.<\/div>\n<div>But the UPA was also involved in the Volhynia massacres, a series of killings from 1943 to 1945 in \u2060which Poland \u200bsays around 100,000 Poles were killed by Ukrainian nationalists. Thousands of Ukrainians \u200balso died in reprisal killings.<\/div>\n<div>Kyiv had previously said that the name had been chosen by soldiers who wanted to commemorate the UPA&#8217;s fight against Moscow and who \u200bhad no intention of offending Poland.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2429\">Gulf airlines get back to business as flights near pre-war levels<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2426\">Abu Dhabi\u2019s MGX weighs multi-billion deal for data center operator DayOne, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=2425\">BMW prepares for talks with staff in wake of profit warning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland&#8217;s president has decided to strip Volodymyr Zelenskiy of the country&#8217;s top \u200bhonour after Ukraine&#8217;s head of state caused outrage by renaming an army unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), nationalists who massacred Poles \u200cin World War Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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