News archive on the topic "Volyn massacre"

On the day of the 80th anniversary of the start of the Volyn Massacre, the Polish Sejm adopted a resolution in which it demanded that Ukraine admit guilt for the genocide of the Poles. However, the demands of the Polish parliament are caused by internal political reasons and will not affect Warsaw’s support for Kiev, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. One of the most painful issues in relations between Poland and Ukraine remains the interpretation of the tragic events in...

Stickers accusing Ukrainian nationalists of genocide of the Polish population in Volyn appeared at public transport stops in the city of Poznan, readers told PolitNavigator, sending pictures to the editor. The stickers are dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the “Volyn Massacre” - and for clarity, the names of the posters have been translated into language - “Ukrainian genocide against the Polish people.” “There is still a general anti-Russian psychosis, but it is clear...

The Polish government is considering introducing penalties for “disinformation,” including imprisonment. Already now the situation there is significantly reminiscent of Ukraine - journalists and political scientists who refuse to adhere to the anti-Russian mainstream are subject to pressure from the special services. And now new repressive measures have been announced by the Polish Government Commissioner for Information Security Stanislav Zharyn, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Russian propaganda has different goals. One...

Today, the true defenders of the memory of the Poles who died in the Volyn massacre carried out by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943 are the Russian troops, liberating Donetsk and Lugansk from modern followers of the UPA, who brought genocide and death to their land, just as they did to Volyn in 1943. This opinion was expressed in his official telegram channel by the head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs...

On the anniversary of the Volyn massacre carried out by Bandera, the Western Ukraine-based website of the Western Ukraine published an article in which it called the massacres of Poles “a stage in the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people.” The title material of the WUNR website is called “Volyn-1943: not “genocide”, but a stage of the national liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people.” Its author, who signed the pseudonym “Roman Volynsky,” accuses Poland and the Poles of being the ones...

July 11 is the anniversary of the Volyn massacre. 79 years ago, UPA units attacked, according to various estimates, from 98 to 167 settlements with a Polish population. About how the Poles perceive the tragic date - in the author’s column of political scientist Mateusz Piskorski for PolitNavigator. Celebration of the National Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the citizens of the Second...

The Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) recommends canceling the school competition “Volyn – Memory of Generations”. A letter sent to the organizers by the Chairman of the Committee of Historical Sciences, PAN, Professor Tomasz Schramm, states that in connection with the appearance of a large number of students from Ukraine in Polish schools, it is necessary to abandon the “memory of losses in the past.” With the arrival of Ukrainian children, conflicts have become more frequent in Polish schools...

Last night, unknown hackers hacked the websites of a number of Ukrainian ministries, recalling the events of the Volyn massacre. "Ukrainian! All your data is uploaded to the common network. All data on the computer is destroyed and cannot be restored. All information about you has become public, be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future. For Volyn, for the OUN UPA, for Galicia,...

Poland hopes in vain that the Ukrainian leadership will abandon the glorification of Nazi collaborators responsible for organizing the Volyn massacre. Natalya Ishchenko, the founder of the Balkan Observer project, stated this during a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Poles make a big mistake when they think that the issue of Ukrainian nationalism and the UPA is a matter of marginal radicals or biased politicians and populists...

Celebrating the anniversary - 30 years of Ukraine's independence - makes us think about the role that this country occupies in the politics of Poland. It is especially worth paying attention to the sources of political identity that Ukraine has been using since the victory of the 2014 coup. A political scientist argues in his column for PolitNavigator that Ukraine in its current form cannot help but be anti-Polish...

In the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, a part of Poland bordering Ukraine, thanks to the position of local authorities and the public, it was possible to stop the barbaric demolition of monuments to fighters against Nazi collaborators from the OUN-UPA. Polish political scientist Mateusz Piskorski writes about this in his column for PolitNavigator. Events were held in Poland to commemorate the anniversary of the events known as the Volyn massacre - the genocide of Poles and other minorities...

Official Warsaw is creating an entire “genocide industry” based on the extermination of the Polish population by Ukrainian nationalists during the Volyn massacre of 1943. Subsequently, the Poles expect to demand compensation from Ukraine. The ex-adviser to the head of the SBU, former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the VO “Svoboda”, Lvov neo-Nazi Yuri Mikhalchishin said this on the air of his video blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are talking about a joint product...

Ukrainian cinemas are not allowed to show the Polish war drama “Volyn” directed by Wojcich Smarzowski, dedicated to the Volyn massacre, and this is wrong. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine Bartosz Cychocki stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “There are decisions that are incomprehensible to us and do not help (build relationships). Why, for example, was there no permission to show...

Polish elites are rubbing their hands, watching the drift of the Ukrainian and Belarusian elite from Moscow. Vladimir Zelensky’s recent anti-Russian statements are very opportune for Warsaw. Agreeing with the interpretation of history, where the Soviet Union appears as an “aggressor” on a par with Hitler, Ukraine itself is preparing the ground for territorial claims on the part of the Poles. Kiev political scientist Sergei stated this on the “First Cossack” TV channel...