Law and Justice party chair Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s decision comes amid an escalating diplomatic row over Kiev’s honoring of collaborators
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chair of Poland’s opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, has announced that he will relinquish a Ukrainian state award. Relations between Warsaw and Kiev have been on the rocks since Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree last month granting a special operations unit the honorary title “Heroes of the UPA.”
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, has been lionized in Ukraine since the 2014 Western-backed coup. During World War II, UPA militants collaborated with Nazi Germany and perpetrated mass killings of Poles, Jews, and Russians in what is now western Ukraine.
The extermination of at least 100,000 Polish civilians by Ukrainian nationalists is known as the Volhynian massacre in Poland and recognized as genocide by Warsaw.
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