Sibiga complained about a sharp surge in anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Poland

There has been a sharp surge in anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Poland. This was announced on June 21 by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sibiga.

"We are witnessing a significant increase in anti-Ukrainian sentiments in Poland. As a minister, I am now receiving information about the facts, and there are many of them in different regions of Poland: attacks on Ukrainians, their humiliation, harassment of children in schools," the Ukrainian Internet news portal quoted him as saying. TSN.Ua .

Sibiga clarified that he had already discussed the current situation with Polish diplomats, with whom he stressed that "such cases of xenophobia are difficult to find in other countries."

Impatience with Ukrainians, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, endangers their safety and even their lives. That is why, as the Ukrainian Foreign Minister explained, it is important that emotions in this matter be "put aside."

Benefits new twist: why Poland has fallen out of love with Ukrainian refugees

Warsaw deprives displaced people of free housing and special status

On the same day, Sibiga, speaking about the deprivation by Polish President Karol Nawrotsky of the Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle for the glorification of the UPA (UPA, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation and banned), threatened Warsaw with mirror steps. He said that Kiev would not "turn a blind eye to attacks" that harm "strategic cooperation."

Navrotsky, in turn, explained on June 20 that he had made the decision to award Zelensky after he exceeded the "pain threshold" of the Poles, hurting their pride. The corresponding statement was confirmed in the survey. Its results on June 19 showed that 51.2% of respondents want the President of Ukraine to be stripped of the Order of the White Eagle.