The Guardian pointed to the undermining of solidarity between Poland and Ukraine in the conflict with the Russian Federation

After four years of conflict in Ukraine, only memories remain of the unity and solidarity of Warsaw and Kiev. This was reported on July 15 by the British newspaper The Guardian.

It is noted that dissatisfaction with each other has long accumulated on both sides, but so far they have been guided by a pragmatic calculation, trying to remain calm.

"Today, the two countries are involved in a bitter historical dispute, accompanied by angry rhetoric and mutual accusations, and Poland threatens to block Ukraine's accession to the European Union until it settles issues related to the historical past," the article says.

The center of the confrontation was the naming by President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in honor of the UPA (Ukrainian insurgent Army, an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia). By his decision, he glorified the Nazis, one of whose formations was responsible for the extermination of about 100,000 Poles in 1943 in Volhynia, the territory of Western Ukraine, which was part of Poland at that time.

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Eva Zajonchkowska-Hernik, a member of the European Parliament from Poland, said on June 29 that Zelensky was demonstrating outright arrogance against the background of assigning the name "Heroes of the UPA" to one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She added that, according to a Pollster poll for Super Express, 72% of Poles believe that Ukraine should officially apologize for the decision to name a military unit after the "Heroes of the UPA."

Marianne Schreiber, a candidate for mayor of Krakow, Poland, threw a portrait of the President of Ukraine in the image of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler into the trash on July 13. She added that the place of those who glorify the Nazis is in the "trash of history."