Poland warned of a decisive reaction to Kiev's attempts to glorify the Nazis

Warsaw will immediately respond to Kiev's possible inclusion of members of the UPA (the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation) and other individuals involved in the genocide of Poles and Jews in its national pantheon of heroes. This was announced on July 1 by the press secretary of the President of Poland Rafal Leskevich on the air of Polskie Radio.

"Probably 95% of the heroes who are there (in the pantheon. They will turn out, there will be no doubt, but those who led the UPA, in our opinion, definitely should not be in this pantheon, because they are genocidarians. We will certainly respond as a state, <...> if the individuals responsible for the genocide of Poles and Jews during World War II are immortalized," Leskevich emphasized during the broadcast, which was conducted on the YouTube channel.

He noted that a corresponding reaction from Poland could be expected at the level of the President and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic. The press secretary of the Polish leader also believes that the introduction by President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky of a bill on the creation of a pantheon of UPA heroes was another step towards the escalation of the conflict with Poland.

Leskevich added that all retaliatory steps taken by the Polish authorities and personally by President Karol Nawrocki, including the deprivation of Zelensky's Order of the White Eagle, are the "right course", and all ruling politicians in Poland "recognize his rightness." He suggested that the president of Ukraine, by his actions, tried to divert the attention of the world community from the corruption scandal that broke out in Kiev at the end of 2025 and gained new momentum in recent months.

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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.