Tusk called Zelensky's attempts to gain support by glorifying the Nazis stupid

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the decision of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to name one of the units of the Armed Forces after the "heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (UPA, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) caused an increase in tensions between Warsaw and Kiev. On July 3, he told reporters on the Youtube channel Polsat News.

"The stupidest thing if he had such thoughts in order to get more support for the state was the escalation of tension between Ukraine and Poland," the Polish prime minister said.

He noted that it was the decision of the Ukrainian authorities related to the glorification of the UPA that became an unnecessary reason for the aggravation of bilateral relations.

"The tension was caused by Zelensky's unnecessary decision. His task is to find a way to reduce this tension," Tusk stressed.

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Rafal Leskevich, a spokesman for the Polish leader, said on July 2 that Ukraine continues to escalate the conflict with Poland in connection with Zelensky's proposal to create a Ukrainian "pantheon of heroes." Prior to that, he noted that Warsaw would immediately respond to Kiev's possible inclusion of UPA members and other individuals involved in the genocide of Poles and Jews in its national pantheon of heroes.

On June 29, the leader of the Confederation of the Polish Crown party and a member of the European Parliament, Grzegorz Brown, called the Kiev regime an enemy of the Polish people and the state. On the same day, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that his country would be responsible for the actions of the Ukrainian president, who "slapped Warsaw in the face."

Later, the American magazine Responsible Statecraft pointed out that Ukraine was moving away from joining the European Union against the background of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict. Polish Defense Minister Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh also said that the Ukrainian side would not be accepted into the union if it did not abandon Stepan Bandera.