Ukraine’s relations with Poland are turning icy
Poland's president Karol Nawrocki has threatened to strip Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland's highest state honour after the Ukrainian leader awarded a military unit the honorary title "Heroes of the UPA". For many Ukrainians, the massacre is one episode in a longer and more complex history On 26 May, Zelenskyy signed a decree awarding a Ukrainian special forces unit the honorary title “Heroes of the UPA”, referring to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a controversial WWII-era nationalist group. The Ukrainian leader's decision proved contentious in Poland, where the UPA is primarily remembered for mass killings carried out in the Volhynia region and Eastern Galicia, in which as many as 100,000 Polish civilians, among them women, children, and the elderly, were murdered.
