(MENAFN) Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski declared on Wednesday that settlement among Warsaw and Kiev is “impossible” without Kyiv’s admitting that the WWII mass execution of cultural Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainian separatists was a massacre.
Ties among the fellow citizens are “unfortunately not the best” currently, “due to recent statements by some of the Ukrainian authorities,” Jablonski informed a Polish news agency.
Poland realizes the “emotions” that came up because Ukraine is “under attack,” he also said, “but it should not attack its allies, either.”
“We support Ukraine to the extent that it meets the national interests of Poland. So it has always been and always will be,” Jablonski declared.
Other than the “many issues” on which Warsaw and Kiev differ in, the WWII-era carnage is definitely the major one. The Polish administration sorts the killing of up to 60,000 ethnic Poles by Stepan Bandera’s Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 1943-44 as a massacre, and has pushed Ukraine to permit exposures, memorials as well as trial of those in charge. In Kiev, however, Bandera is a state champion.
the minister confirmed that “There is no possibility of real Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation without settling this issue.”
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