The two countries have clashed over the Ukrainian leader’s move to name a commando unit in honor of Nazi collaborators
Vladimir Zelensky will skip this week’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in Poland to keep the gathering free of “scandals,” the Foreign Ministry has said, as a diplomatic row with Warsaw over Kiev’s commemoration of a Nazi-linked wartime unit shows no sign of easing.
Tensions between Ukraine and Poland – a key supporter of Kiev – escalated in recent weeks when Zelensky named a special-forces unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which collaborated with Nazi Germany during WWII and whose fighters killed tens of thousands of Polish civilians.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki responded by stripping Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest honor, prompting several senior Ukrainian officials to renounce their own Polish honors.
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