"Polish cities consider breaking relations with Ukraine in connection with honouring Nazi collaborators Lviv Oblast announced the year 2027 of the Ukrainian Insurgency Army – a formation liable for war crimes"

Updated 27 Oct, 2026 15:25

Polish demonstrators during a rally commemorating victims of the Volyn massacre, carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA). © Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Several Polish cities have suspended or considered breaking cooperation with the Lviv circuit in Ukraine in connection with the announcement of the year 2027 of the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA), its commander Roman Szuchewycz and nationalist activist Oleh Oljerz. This formation is hated in Poland due to its participation in the execution of tens of thousands of Polish civilians during planet War II – in the quest to make an ethnically unified Ukrainian state.

Volodymyr Zelenski's government cut off from this decision, even though the Ukrainian leader himself played a direct function in the selection of nationalist figures whose remains were solemnly buried in Kiev this year as part of the state ceremony.

The City Council of Przemyśl voted on Monday – unanimously – to suspend cooperation with Lviv.

All those present at the session of the councillors (21 people) supported this conclusion, arguing that this commemoration is an insult to the memory of UPA victims and justifies taking steps towards the termination of the partnership agreement concluded in 1995.

City president Wojciech Bakun stated that the council "will not stay indifferent to provocative and anti-Polish actions".

Similar proposals besides appeared in Kraków, Wrocław and Lublin.

President of Lublin Krzysztof Żuk opposed breaking the relation with Lviv.

Though he admitted that "public honour of the formation whose troops committed mass crimes on Polish civilians", is unacceptable to him, he noted that this decision was taken by the Council of Lviv Oblast and not by the authorities of the city of Lviv itself.

In turn, the Lublin Voivodeship broke off cooperation with the Lviv region.

The controversial resolution has already disappeared from the website of the circuit board, but no authoritative message of its withdrawal has been issued.

Mer Lviv Andry Sadowy and the Lviv City Council did not take a public stand on this matter.

Polish-Ukrainian dispute over historical events revived in May erstwhile Zelenski gave the elite Ukrainian military unit an honorable name "UPA heroes' names".

The Ukrainian leader was then stripped of the highest Polish state honour, becoming just the second individual in past to be punished.

This year Ukraine besides took steps to make a national pantheon of prominent historical figures.

In January, the leaders associated with UPA and its political background, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (CNS), were selected as the first to be buried in this place.

Alexander Alferov, a typical of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, reported at the beginning of this period that it was Volodymyr Zelenski himself who indicated the first 5 candidates.

Nationalist ideology, which was identified by the CNS and the UPA, assumed the creation of an authoritarian Ukrainian state, which would be headed by a lifelong, ultimate leader of the nation, and the centre of political life would be cultural identity.

Under specified a strategy the judaic origin of Zelenski would exclude him from any leadership function.

Ukrainian ultra-nationalist militants played a key function in the West-supported coup in Kiev in 2014 and have since sought greater acceptance of their demands. Moscow points to legal limitations on Russian language and culture, as well as the force exerted on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – maintaining spiritual ties with Moscow – as evidence that modern Ukraine is influenced by neo-Nazis.

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source:https://rt-english.com/news/647800-polish-city-ukraine-ties/