{"id":622509,"date":"2026-06-21T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=622509"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:35:00","slug":"poland-revokes-top-award-from-zelensky-as-row-over-nazi-symbolism-deepens-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=622509","title":{"rendered":"Poland Revokes Top Award From Zelensky As Row Over Nazi Symbolism Deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poland Revokes Top Award From Zelensky As Row Over Nazi Symbolism Deepens<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Poland and Ukraine’s ties continue to fray, worsening an ongoing diplomatic crisis – despite Warsaw being an ‘eastern flank’ key NATO ally in the broader Western campaign against Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

President \u200bKarol Nawrocki\u00a0has just announced the country’s highest state honor previously awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been revoked<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“In light of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s consent to name one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ‘Heroes of the UPA,”<\/strong>… I have decided to revoke the Order \u2060of \u2060the White Eagle from the President of Ukraine,” Nawrocki said in a statement. According to more of the statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Polish President Karol Nawrocki branded Ukraine’s decision late last month to name the unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) “outrageous”, “incomprehensible” and “deeply disappointing”<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For Warsaw, uplifting this name is tantamount to backing a Nazi-orchestrated genocide against the\u00a0Polish people<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

For Poland, the\u00a0UPA, or the Ukrainian Insurgent Army<\/strong>, is responsible for a campaign of genocidal ethnic cleansing in the 1940s that\u00a0resulted in the deaths of an estimated 100,000 Polish civilians in Volhynia<\/strong>\u00a0(known as Volyn in Ukrainian and Wo\u0142y\u0144 in Polish), a historic region with deep Polish and Ukrainian roots. This violence also systematically targeted Jewish survivors who had escaped the Holocaust.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amid the diplomatic dispute sparked by the renaming, the Polish government is still promising not to let the issue steer its thinking on Ukraine’s aspirations to join the European Union<\/strong>. It is pledging to remain objective related to examining Ukraine’s status.<\/p>\n

Ironically this highly symbolic diplomatic slap in the face aimed at Kiev comes ahead of a conference on Ukraine’s reconstruction in the Polish city of Gdansk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

That Poland is still hosting this high-level conference suggests that Poland is not willing to cut off its overall diplomatic and military support to Ukraine amid the war with Russia<\/strong>\u00a0– but it is perhaps an early sign that things are headed in this eventual direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ukrainian Foreign \u200bMinister Andrii Sybiha has made his country’s outrage known – though is still trying to make nice given it needs the military support – responding to the Polish presidency by saying Warsaw\u00a0committed \u200ba “strategic error”<\/strong> in revoking the state award.<\/p>\n

President of the Republic of Poland Karol Nawrocki’s decision regarding the stripping of the Order of the White Eagle from President Zelensky:<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

Decyzja Prezydenta RP Karola Nawrockiego w sprawie odebrania Orderu Or\u0142a Bia\u0142ego Prezydentowi Ukrainy Wo\u0142odymyrowi Ze\u0142enskiemu. pic.twitter.com\/8gr1iRhM3y<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kancelaria Prezydenta RP (@prezydentpl) June 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The decision to strip the president of Ukraine \u2060of the Order of the White \u200bEagle is a \u200bstrategic \u2060error \u200cby \u200cthe President \u2060of Poland \u200cthat \u200bonly benefits \u2060Moscow<\/strong>,” \u2060Sybiha wrote \u2060on \u200bFacebook.<\/p>\n

Poland also has other pressing concerns, not the least of which is the immigration and war refugee issue. Poland has throughout over four years of the Ukraine war had to absorb hundreds of thousands of refugees and war-displaced families.<\/p>\n

A future where Ukraine could become part of the EU might prove a major drain on Poland’s own struggling economy and resources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 06\/21\/2026 – 07:35<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poland Revokes Top Award From Zelensky As Row Over Nazi Symbolism Deepens Poland and Ukraine’s ties continue to fray, worsening an ongoing diplomatic crisis – despite Warsaw being an ‘eastern flank’ key NATO ally in the broader Western campaign against Russia.\u00a0 President \u200bKarol Nawrocki\u00a0has just announced the country’s highest state honor previously awarded to Ukrainian… Continue reading Poland Revokes Top Award From Zelensky As Row Over Nazi Symbolism Deepens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/622496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}