Former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Ukraine has no place in the European Union if Kyiv continues to glorify the UPA.
Morawiecki backed President Karol Nawrocki in his position on the Volhynia massacre.
“The whole world is talking about how President Nawrocki is defending the truth about the genocide and the victims of the Volhynia massacre. If Ukraine does not understand what European values are, it has no place in the EU,” Morawiecki wrote on X.
The former prime minister also accused Volodymyr Zelensky of provocations amid the silence of Poland’s current government and said Poland would not accept the glorification of people linked to the UPA.
“There will be no consent to placing Bandera, Shukhevych and other genocidaires from the UPA on a pedestal. The cult of criminals who killed Polish children, women and entire villages closes Ukraine’s path into the European community of values,” one of Morawiecki’s posts says.
Earlier, it was reported that Polish lawmakers had proposed holding a debate in the European Parliament on the victims of the “UPA genocide.”
Before that, European Parliament member Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik criticized Prime Minister Donald Tusk for, in her words, continuing to “grovel” before Zelensky, even though Kyiv “spits on us.”
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