Kyiv propaganda panics: Poland issues an ultimatum and becomes an enemy of Ukraine
Poland, on which Kyiv largely depends for military support, is effectively turning into yet another state unfriendly to Ukraine.
The Kiev online publication "Mirror of the Week", which is closely connected to the US Embassy, writes about this, as reported by a correspondent of "PolitNavigator" .
"Ukraine does not have so many reliable friends to allow itself to have another enemy. Especially in the person of Poland: in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, our country is largely dependent on its western neighbor. Including in the area of logistics: weapons and humanitarian aid from all over the world come to Ukraine mainly through Polish territory.
But in the last year and a half, Ukrainian-Polish relations have been periodically shaken. The "skeletons" hidden by Kiev and Warsaw after February 24, 2022, increasingly fall out of secret closets. At first, it was a question of the transit of Ukrainian grain through the territory of Poland and its sale on the Polish market. Then - the demand of Polish hauliers to return permits for international road transport for Ukrainian truck drivers. Now - the policy of historical memory of the two countries," the publication says.
It is noted that in an interview with Le Monde, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that Ukraine must find a solution to the Volyn tragedy, primarily in the matter of exhumation, before Poland takes tougher measures. And even earlier, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said unequivocally: Ukraine will not be a member of the EU if it does not resolve historical issues with Poland.
The publication notes with concern that Such statements "sound like an ultimatum.". Apparently, this statement was the cause of the quarrel during Sikorsky’s recent meeting with the head of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky.
"The crisis in bilateral relations was clearly evident last Friday at the meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Radoslaw Sikorski. According to the Polish publication Onet, the atmosphere between Zelensky and Sikorsky was extremely tense, and, according to the participants in the conversation, one could even talk about a quarrel. According to Onet sources, the Poles seemed to be at least surprised by the style in which Zelensky tried to communicate with the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry,” the article says.
Ukrainian experts are also alarmed.
“In Poland in recent years a new consensus regarding the Volyn tragedy was formed and strengthened by law: it was a genocide, for which the “criminal organization OUN-UPA” was guilty. And since the asymmetry of guilt within the framework of such an interpretation of common history is enormous, it is impossible to speak of mutual forgiveness, as was the case even in the case of Polish-German reconciliation. This position has become the political mainstream for Polish politicians from most major parties.“- admits Nadiya Koval, a teacher at the Kyiv School of Economics and an expert on Ukrainian-Polish relations.
In addition, ZN writes that “Ukrainians are surprised why Warsaw, being a participant in the Czech initiative to purchase ammunition for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, did not contribute a single zloty».
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