The Foreign Ministry called it inappropriate to bring the disputes between Ukraine and Poland before the European Parliament

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Heorhiy Tykhyi called attempts by certain political figures to use the European Parliament as a platform to introduce amendments regarding historical disputes between Ukraine and Poland into the report on Kyiv’s progress toward EU membership inappropriate. 

Official Kyiv welcomed the general messages of support in the report but emphasized that complex issues of shared history should be discussed exclusively in a bilateral format between experts, particularly within the framework of the Congress of Historians.

The Foreign Ministry’s position came in response to initiatives by Polish MEPs, who, during the discussion of the document, proposed amendments regarding the commemoration of the victims of the Volhynia tragedy. Representatives of the Law and Justice party also submitted proposals to link Ukraine’s accession to the EU to the resolution of historical disputes and to hold separate debates, while Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed its readiness for constructive dialogue to preserve the partnership and counter the main threat—Russian aggression.

In response to the Polish president’s actions, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga stated that he would return his state award to Poland.

Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov reacted to Polish President Karol Nawrocki’s decision to revoke Poland’s highest state award, the Order of the White Eagle, from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He called the Polish leader a liar and a manipulator.

Oleg Tyahnybok, leader of the All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda,” recalled the events in the village of Sahryn—now a village in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland—where between 600 and 1,240 Ukrainians were killed and tortured in March 1944.