Poland Strips Zelenskyy of Honor Amidst Diplomatic Row Over Army Unit Naming
Poland's president has revoked Ukraine's President Zelenskyy's highest honor, the Order of the White Eagle, following the naming of a Ukrainian army unit after a controversial World War II formation. This decision has sparked criticism from Ukrainian officials, with Zelenskyy's chief of staff and other Ukrainian diplomats renouncing their Polish orders in protest.
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Polish foreign minister points out to Polish president that his decision was welcomed in Moscow
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has drawn Polish President Karol Nawrocki's attention to how Russia reacted to his decision to revoke an award from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the renaming of one of the Ukrainian units after the heroes of the UPA. [The UPA, or Ukrainian Insurgent Army, was a nationalist paramilitary organisation that fought for Ukrainian independence during and after World War II, primarily against Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union – ed.]
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Polish President Karol Nawrocki has decided to strip Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland’s highest state honor
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Poland's president has decided to strip Volodymyr Zelensky of the country's top honour after the Ukrainian president caused outrage by renaming an army unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), nationalists who massacred Poles during World War Two.
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A unit of the Ukrainian army was recently named as ”Heroes of the UPA’, despite the UPA history as an insurgent army that took part in massacres against Polish people in World War Two.
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