Ukraine Diplomatic Scandal: Is Zelenskiy Sabotaging Polish-Ukrainian Relations?

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Over the coming week, public debate in Poland and political backroom discussions will be dominated by anticipation of the White Eagle Order chapter's decision regarding Ukrainian President Voldem Zalinski. Politicians across the political spectrum are condemning the scandal in which the Ukrainian head of state decided to award one of the country's military units the title of heroes of the Ukrainian insurgent army.

[00:00:30]a huge mistake. Scandalous behavior on Zilinsk's part because he is senselessly jeopardizing relations with Poland and jeopardizing relations with the entire European Union.

[00:00:43]We cannot pretend that these are not crimes.

[00:00:46]Is a crime.

[00:00:50]Of course, Zilinski's medal should be revoked. Zalinski knows exactly what he's saying. He's spitting in the faces of polls, attacking our nation, attacking our history. By glorifying banderites, criminals, murderers, rapists, and genocidal perpetrators, he has forfeited this decoration. Polish President Karon Navroski has submitted a motion to revoke the highest Polish decoration from the president of Ukraine.

[00:01:17]>> Bandits and murderers who slaughtered women and children who slaughtered Poles within the European family. Such bandits cannot be glorified, nor can the Ukrainian insurgent army be glorified.

[00:01:29]And I have accepted this with great sadness. Polish Prime Minister Lulusk is trying in an incomprehensible and senseless way to diffuse the situation.

[00:01:39]In doing so, he is spitting in the face of the victims of criminal Ukrainian organizations, the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army.

[00:01:51]If President Zilinski and President Navroski become the leaders of historical disputes and emotions, then the Kremlin will have a real reason to rejoice.

[00:02:01]The condescending, pretentious slumping of Zilinski together with Kon Navroski, moreover immediately shifting the narrative to the Russian side. On June 8th, the chapter of the Order of the White Eagle is to issue an opinion on whether to revoke Zilinski's decoration.

[00:02:18]But that is not all.

[00:02:20]After consulting the opinion, the president may issue a decision to revoke the declaration. However, according to constitutional law doctrine, which is the prevailing view, this decision is subject to counter signature and then the Polish prime minister, if he receives such a decision for counter signature, assumes full political responsibility. And here a question mark arises. What will the prime minister do?

[00:02:45]His statements suggest that he will not support revoking the declaration, especially since his political allies are vocally opposing President Kar Navroski's firm decision.

[00:02:56]In this matter, we should expect first a change of decision and second an apology. But I believe that President Navroski's reaction is hysterical.

[00:03:06]He who gives and takes away will languish in hell. That's a Polish saying. And I think the president has forgotten it too. Once we give something, we shouldn't take it back.

[00:03:19]He who gives and takes away will languish in hell. That's the saying that comes to mind. Zilinsk's decision is reprehensible. But making such a harsh top tier anti- Ukrainian gesture right now at a time when Russian drones are flying into NATO territory is not the right direction. Some government politicians failing to grasp the gravity of the situation are even talking about exploiting the scandal for political gain.

[00:03:45]>> Zalinski's colossal mistake is being exploited right now. This is playing on people's emotions at this very moment.

[00:03:52]It is difficult not to get carried away by emotions and remain silent on this matter when we are talking about over 120,000 people brutally murdered by Ukrainians in the 1940s. Polish people were murdered using axes, pitchforks, sky saws, hammers, and sickles. They were impaled on stakes, skinned alive, and children were torn from their mother's wombs. A genocide that remains unaccounted for to this day. And the victims have not been buried with respect and dignity.

[00:04:25]In a situation where a decision is being made regarding this very formation that murdered Poles and this formation is being particularly supported by the Ukrainian president. This is unacceptable. This is anti-Polish. This is pro-Russian. In response to the Ukrainian president's decision to honor the Ukrainian insurgent army, there have been further reactions in Poland.

[00:04:47]According to the Lublin 112 website, the Ukrainian flag, which had been waving in front of Lublin city hall as a gesture of solidarity following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has been removed.

[00:04:59]Our action is directly related to President Zilinsk's decision. Following the example of other Polish cities, we have decided to remove the Ukrainian flag from the Lublin city hall building.

[00:05:10]We share the critical stance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and the Polish Embassy in Kiev regarding President Voldem Zalinsk's decision. There are also further political decisions.

[00:05:23]Together with local government officials, we are launching a petition for a citizens legislative initiative to ban the promotion of banderism. Next week, the committee will be registered and the signature collection will begin.

[00:05:36]Thank you very much for this support.

[00:05:39]The bill I drafted together with the then president of the Institute of National Remembrance, Karon Navroski, which criminalizes the promotion of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the Ukrainian insurgent army and banderism, as well as the so-called vulinia lie and introducing amendments to the criminal code has been stalled for over one and a half years in the committee on justice and human rights.

[00:06:01]Only a major citizens initiative can get it moving. regarding Voldemort Zilinsk's scandalous decision. One wonders why it was made in the first place. And here the paths lead to Berlin.

[00:06:15]>> Zilinski cannot tell Ukrainians that it is Berlin that is vetoing Ukraine's rapid entry into NATO. So a scapegoat is needed. Therefore, the polls must be provoked as they will be the most vocal in opposing Ukraine and by extension its entry into the EU. And as European Commission President Ursula Vanderlayan announced, the coming weeks are expected to bring a breakthrough in Ukraine's accession process to the European Union.

[00:06:42]>> Unfortunately, President Zilinski has proven that Ukraine in terms of its mentality and glorification of bandits and murderers from the Ukrainian insurgent army is not ready to be part of the European family. Approval for any country to join the European Union requires the unanimous consent of all member states. With his decision, the president of Ukraine has harmed his own people and the future of his country because Polish President Karon Navroski will not allow the victims of a brutal genocide to be slandered.