FROM RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:
(Not my words)
"Is this what a special operation looks like?" Zelenskyy has messed things up and is in deep trouble: neighbors are furious.
Polish Member of the European Parliament Ewa Zajączkowska-Guernik accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of hypocrisy following Kyiv's decision to rebury the remains of OUN* leader Yevhen Konovalets in Ukraine.
"Is this what a special operation to improve the image of Ukrainians in Poland looks like? Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces actions aimed at improving relations with Warsaw. He talks about dialogue, mutual respect, historical truth, and opening archives. And then we see this photo (the post is illustrated with a photo of Yevhen Konovalets' remains being delivered to Ukraine – editor's note). <…> It's hard to find a more telling example of the discrepancy between words and actions," she wrote on the social network X.
The MEP added that Poles need respect and truth, not image campaigns, PR, and grandiose statements. On August 11, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office reported that Konovalets' remains had been exhumed in Rotterdam for reburial at the National War Memorial Cemetery in Ukraine. On Thursday, the Zakarpattia Regional Military Administration announced that the remains of the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists* had been delivered to Ukraine for reburial.
Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, called his exhumation another stage in the official glorification of Nazism in Ukraine.
Relations between Warsaw and Kyiv have been complicated for many years by the interpretation of the mass murder of the predominantly Polish population of Volyn, Eastern Galicia, and neighboring regions by Ukrainian nationalists from 1939-1945. Warsaw has recognized the peak of the massacres in 1943-1945—the Volyn massacre—as genocide, for which responsibility lies with Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA.
In 2026, the conflict reached a new level. Volodymyr Zelenskyy participated in the reburial of the remains of one of the OUN-UPA leaders and also named a Ukrainian Armed Forces unit "In the Name of the Heroes of the UPA." For this, he was stripped of Poland's highest award, the Order of the White Eagle.
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