Poland pointed to the escalation of the conflict with Ukraine over the creation of the "pantheon of heroes"

Ukraine continues to escalate the conflict with Poland in connection with the proposal of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to create a Ukrainian "pantheon of heroes." This was announced on July 2 by the press secretary of the Polish leader Rafal Leskevich.

"Zelensky announced the introduction of a bill on the National Pantheon — this is the next stage of escalatory actions by the Ukrainian authorities after the decision taken at the end of May to assign one of the military units the name of the heroes of the UPA (Ukrainian insurgent Army, recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation)," Leskevich wrote on the social network X (former. Twitter).

The day before, he noted that Warsaw would immediately respond to Kiev's possible inclusion of UPA members and other individuals involved in the genocide of Poles and Jews in its national pantheon of heroes. 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."

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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.