The President's spokesperson corresponds to Ukrainian historians. “This is simply a script written in the Kremlin”

On Monday, president Karol Nawrocki submitted to the Sejm amendments to the Act on the Institute of National Memory and the Criminal Code, which aims to prevent the promotion of flag ideology and the denial of the Volyn crime.

A group of Ukrainian historians responded to these decisions. They published an open letter stating, inter alia, that "the Ukrainian side will besides be forced to act in consequence and adopt appropriate acts at the statutory level to measure the actions of certain branches of the National Army and Peasants Battalions".

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A dispute over Karol Nawrocki's initiative. President's spokesperson reacts

President Nawrocki's spokesperson Rafał Leśkiewicz referred to the case.

— This is simply a script written in the Kremlin, triggering a crisis in past between our peoples," he said.

He added that “there is no symmetry in this matter”. “We are talking about UPA murders on Polish citizens, but besides Jews, due to the fact that UPA helped Germans. And now Kiev is announcing legislative acts against the AK. We're talking 1,000 killed by AK.As part of the retaliatory action, added the President's spokesman.