Michał Dworczyk believes that giving the Ukrainian military unit the name “UPA heroes” was a mistake of Volodymyr Zelenski himself. erstwhile Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister convinces that the president of Ukraine wanted to cover up interior problems with the dispute with Poland, but rapidly lost control of this count. The evaluation of politics falls at a time erstwhile the relations between Warsaw and Kiev are undergoing 1 of the most serious crises in years.
Flag effect – interior policy
Michał Dworczyk referred to the case in the program "No Doctrine", in an interview with Marek Magierowski. In his opinion, Zełenski's decision present is mainly due to the interior situation in Ukraine, not to the cold calculation towards Warsaw. The president was to number on the "flag effect", or unification of society around external tension. According to the erstwhile minister, Zelenski tried to impose a conflict with Poland on his interior problems. "He succeeded, but most likely for a lot shorter than he expected," added Dworzyk. He besides hit a side effect of the full brawl. With a snack, he stated that no 1 in Europe had done as much as the Ukrainian president did to spread the actual communicative of UPA.
Unit of name ‘UPA Heroes’
The full case began on May 27, 2026. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Ukrainian peculiar Operations Army, the president gave 1 of the elite honorary units the name “UPA Heroes”. For Ukrainian historical communicative Ukrainian Pows dancing Army remains an independency formation. For Poland it is an inextricably related name to genocide in the Kresach. It was this discrepancy that caused Kiev's decision to echo in the country and trigger a chain reaction.
Order sent to Warsaw
President Nawrocki's answer was tough. The Polish leader decided to collect Zelensk Order of the White Eagle, the highest Polish distinction. Ukrainian president of the award sent away, and any officials in Kiev renounced in a motion of solidarity of Polish awards. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy Andry Sybiha assessed that this was a strategical mistake for Nawrocki, on which only Russia would benefit. So the dispute from the historical level of discussion moved straight to diplomatic ground.
Untwined Wound of Volyn
To realize the strength of the Polish reaction, 1 must go back to the summertime of 1943. On 11 July that year, on a day later called "blood Sunday", UPA troops hit at the same time a 100 Polish villages and settlements in Volyn. Historians of the Institute of National Memory estimation the number of Polish victims of the full slaughter to be around 1 100 1000 people, mostly civilians. For years, Kiev's consent to the exhumation and burial of these victims remains a recurring postulate. The first specified work started only recently, which is why honoring the crime formation was read over the Vistula as a motion in the incorrect direction. For millions of Poles whose ancestors died or escaped from the Kresów, the glorification of UPA is not a subject for negotiation. It's the foundation of national memory.
Who gains from dispute
Dworczyk pointed out that the current economical cooperation of Polish and Ukrainian companies has not suffered so far. However, he warned against the cost of a protracted crisis. Here is simply a real problem for the Polish state's right. The hard defence of the fact about Volyn is simply a duty, but all crack on the Warsaw-Kiyów line weakens the east flank against the Russian threat. If Zelenski's motion was indeed a game of public opinion, who is yet to be utilized for the division between the neighbors whose fates were tied up by the same war?
Source: WP News
