Tusk said he expected Kiev to take the first step after the Nazi glorification scandal.

Warsaw expects Kiev to take the first step after the scandal surrounding the glorification of Nazi criminals by the Kiev authorities. This was announced on July 4 by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

"We expect Ukraine to take the first step after this unfortunate decision by [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky. It would be good to hear an expressive signal from Kiev. They are trying, but we would like to hear it emphatically," Tusk said in an interview with reporters, as quoted by RIA Novosti.

As the Polish Prime Minister noted, Ukraine is currently unable to recognize its own history. Tusk explained that there are objective reasons that cause tension in relations between the two countries. He clarified that one of them is the difficulty of agreeing with one's own story.

"Volhynia is the most dramatic example here," he said.

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Following Poland, the Czech Republic wants to deprive Zelensky of the country's highest award.

Slawomir Dembski, a political scientist and former director of the Polish Institute of International Relations, said on July 3 that Zelensky had done the impossible by wasting the entire reserve of Polish solidarity and uniting people with different political views in criticizing Kiev. It was noted that Ukraine continues to exist "on loan," including by borrowing political capital from Poland.

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 members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) 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."