Zakharova reacted to the EP resolution on perpetuating the victims of the UPA

On June 29, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on a draft resolution submitted to the European Parliament (EP) on perpetuating the memory of the victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, an organization recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).

The diplomat stressed that the members of this structure are hardened Nazis, and Moscow's position towards them remains unchanged.

"The participants of the UPA are seasoned Nazis. In Russia, the qualifications of these ghouls have long been determined," she told RIA Novosti.

The representative of the ministry also reacted to the words of Eva Zajonchkowska-Gernik, a member of the European Parliament from Poland, who said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had shown Warsaw the "middle finger" by his actions.

"Zelensky showed the Poles something worse than the middle finger — his piano playing. And he was also rewarded for this," Zakharova pointed out.

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On the same day, Deputy Zayonchkovskaya-Hernik said 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."

On June 19, Polish President Karol Nawrocki stripped Zelensky of the order of the republic's highest state award, the Order of the White Eagle, because of the glorification of the UPA. He, in turn, decided to send the award by mail. As a sign of solidarity with the President of Ukraine, its former leader Leonid Kuchma decided to abandon the Order of the White Eagle. The ex-president of Poland ironically dubbed all these steps a "medal war."