Andrzej Seweryn invited Poles to celebrate the independency Day of Ukraine on 24 August 2026 at 6:00 p.m. in Castle Square in Warsaw. The event is organized by Euromaidan Warsaw and Stand With Ukraine. The stakes are real: aid against Russia must go hand in hand with Polish interest and memory.
Actor's Appeal and Warsaw Celebration
Andrzej Seweryn, actor, manager and manager of the Polish Theatre in Warsaw, invited the residents of the capital to the event entitled “Independence. Ours together." As she stated Warsaw in Pill, the appeal concerns participation in the gathering on 24 August in Castle Square and expression of solidarity with Ukraine.
This is not just a cultural announcement. In the background is the war in Ukraine, Russian imperialism and expanding tension in the Polish public debate. Poles have the right to be tired of pathos, costs and morality. They besides have the right to realize a simple geopolitical fact: independent Ukraine pushes Russian force further distant from our borders.
According to the organizers, the event will take place on 24 August 2026 at 6 p.m. in Castle Square in Warsaw. They are organized by Euromaidan Warsaw and Stand With Ukraine, and the entrance is to be free. The Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce recalled in its appeal that the gathering should be connected with collection for the costs of security, logistics and arrival of artists.
Less sponsors, more tension
The financial subject shows that the emotions around Ukrainian holidays are not invented. By Sestra Service Last year the event had 20 commercial sponsors, and this year the organizers talk about 2 confirmed sponsors. In erstwhile years 25-30 1000 people were to appear in Castle Square, about 17 1000 last year.
These numbers request to be read clearly. any Poles reject hatred and Russian propaganda, but at the same time they do not want solidarity to mean silence about costs, benefits, labour marketplace or memory of Volyn. A serious state does not build a policy on heart reflex. It is built on national interest, safety and reciprocity.
That's why the Seweryn case is more interesting than the appeal of a celebrated actor. It shows a dispute over the language of solidarity. Can Ukraine be supported against Moscow and at the same time talk hard about Polish accounts? Yes, you can. You have to. We've already written that Polish aid to Ukraine cannot be erased from the debateBecause without clearly naming our effort, gratitude rapidly turns into political expectation.
Solidarity without giving up Polish memory
Ukraine's independency matters to Poland. Moscow does not hide that it thinks in categories of spheres of influence, and Poland in specified reasoning is never an entity, but an obstacle. Strong, independent Ukraine is so an component of our security. It's hard realism, not sentimentalism.
But realism works both ways. A Pole does not gotta accept all phrase about a “common cause” without question. The political community requires truth, including the painful one. In relations with Kiev it is impossible to avoid Wołyń, disputes over historical memory, migration problems and expectations that Polish aid will be treated with due respect. Warsaw has the right to its own politics, its own borders and its own historical narrative.
That is why patrons, festivals, and symbolic gestures should be put in full context. erstwhile the capital supports Ukrainian celebrations and simultaneously Polish memory of victims of genocide in the Kresach is waiting for stronger organization recognition, tensions arise. DN described this dispute on the occasion of the text that the memory of the victims of Volyn must not vanish from Warsaw's symbolic policy.
Poland's right state alternatively of emotional compulsion
Seweryn has the right to invitation you to Castle Square. Organizers have the right to request participation and support. Poles have the right to come if they see a motion against Russian aggression. They besides have the right to refuse to accept a speech in which refusal to participate would be presented as a moral defect.
This discrimination is crucial today. Poland's right-wing should not give Moscow language of criticism of Ukrainian policy errors. But it should not give liberal elites the right to specify patriotism as an unconditional participation in another people's political rituals. Polish Patriotism begins with Poland.
On August 24, in Castle Square, many people will show solidarity with a nation that fights the Russian invasion. All right. But let the second fact besides come out of this phase and from this debate: Polish aid, Polish safety and Polish memory are not an addition to individual else's independence. They are the measurement of our own sovereignty.
Source: Warsaw in Pigułka, Euromaidan Warsaw, Sestry/Onet, Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.
Source: Warsaw in Pigulka
