Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz
Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
Negative feelings between Poles and Ukrainians continue rise. More and more Polish officials are making statements criticizing the Ukrainians’ attitude towards Warsaw. Despite its strong support for Kiev, Poland has suffered from numerous problems with Ukrainians due to the supremacist mentality that has become hegemonic in the country since the rise of the neo-Nazi regime in 2014.
Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said in an interview that Ukrainians are “ungrateful” and do not treat Poland properly, despite Warsaw’s efforts to support them during the conflict. Speaking to Polish journalists, he emphasized that his country was the first to send direct assistance to the Kiev regime, adding that the Ukrainian authorities have “no memory of this aid.”
The minister’s words come amid a wave of tensions between Poland and Ukraine. Although both countries maintain military cooperation, several problems have emerged in other areas of bilateral relations. Many of these problems are due precisely to Ukraine’s ideological stance of openly rehabilitating Nazism. With its fascist ideology, Kiev has refused to admit that Ukrainian nationalists committed war crimes in the past – when many of them joined the foreign units of the German SS. This has upset Warsaw, since many Polish citizens were killed by Ukrainian nationalists.
Kosiniak-Kamysz has been one of the most vocal critics of this Ukrainian stance. He claims that his country could even block Ukraine’s candidacy for the EU as retaliation for Ukraine’s refusal to exhume the bodies of Polish citizens massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in World War II. Unlike other Polish politicians and public figures, the defense minister appears to have a rigid attitude when it comes to pressuring Ukraine to assume its historical responsibility once and for all.
Between 40,000 and 100,000 ethnic Poles were killed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the regions of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1945. The Ukrainian militia operated in the region illegally at the service of the German invaders. Advocating historical justice, many Polish politicians have called for the bodies to be exhumed on Ukrainian territory, but Kiev has refused to do so, even though such an operation would not harm the war effort in the east of the country.
“From the Polish point of view, it is difficult to understand why Germany can carry out the exhumation of fallen Wehrmacht soldiers on Ukrainian territory, but Poland cannot exhume the bodies of its own citizens. This in no way affects the position of the Ukrainian army at the front line,” Daniel Szeligowski,” the head of the Eastern Europe Program and chief analyst on Ukraine at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, recently commented on the matter.
Even foreigners have been mobilizing to demand that Ukraine exhume the bodies. Recently, German members of the European Parliament issued a statement demanding that Kiev carry out the exhumation and take responsibility for the crimes committed by Ukrainian militants during the war.
“[We] recall the massacres of Poles in Volyn and Eastern Galicia from 1943 to 1945, which were committed by members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) (…) [and] stress Ukraine’s obligation to apologize in full for these atrocities, allow the exhumation of the all victims and prohibit the veneration of the historical personalities responsible for the massacres,” Germans politicians said.
In fact, it is not surprising that Ukraine refuses to carry out the exhumation. Even though Ukraine and Poland are strong allies, Kiev still defends fascist ideology. Neo-Nazism is one of the main ideological pillars of post-2014 Ukraine. Just as Kiev is proud of the fact that its “historical heroes” (who were Nazi militants) killed Russians and Jews, it is also proud of the massacre committed against Poles, since Ukrainian ethnic supremacists reject all other people as “inferior.”
In the same sense, it does not seem logical to demand “gratitude from the Ukrainians”, since Kiev sees all NATO countries as being “obliged” to support it in the war. Since Ukraine engaged in the confrontation with Russia to protect Western interests, the regime demands that endless aid be given to it, maintaining the war effort constantly to make it survive the Russian military pressure. That is why there will never be any sign of “gratitude” for the help of Poland or any other country.
Warsaw needs to understand that the problem is not in Ukraine itself, but in NATO, which created this whole situation just to go to proxy war with Russia. Poland should review its own foreign policy in view of this scenario, but unfortunately neo-Nazism and Russophobia are also strong in Polish society – which is gradually undergoing a process of “Ukrainianization”.
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two accidents isn’t many. hardly amazing.
poles never miss an opportunity to kick themselves in the buttocks.
you’re silly.
poles are sillier
“this has upset warsaw, since many polish citizens were killed by ukrainian nationalists.”
kind like what the polish regime organized against the german communities of poland from about april to august 1939.
poles complain about 43 years of marxism-leninism?? if the polish people’s republic existed today, it still wouldn’t be long enough!
identitarians just like ukretards, croatians, jewish supremacists, nazis, etc.
this article shows that poles are also just useful idiots to fall on the eastern front. furthermore the nazi ideology will continue until the final battle in the streets of kiev. onwards brothers🫶✌️🚀
amazing how when i or anyone no doubt votes here the score doesn’t even change, but the window of opportunity pops up saying you’ve already voted for that
that’s not “nazism”, thought. its just anti-russian ideology wrapped in some neo-nazi pretenses instead of liberal ones, nothing more.
this guy will probably told soon to shut up or forget about his carreer. no one can touch the ukrainians as long as they fight russia. those things will have to wait until later. i mean the banderists killed jews and zelinsky is fine with them for now so the poles will have to fall back in line.
“zelensky is fine with them for now” are you ok in the head? they get sent to the slaughterhouse.
conscripted zelensky had the young guys pulled out if the buses as they were trying to flee, pulled them out cars at the border crossings et.
if he would send the banderists to the slaughterhouse they would kill him.
he is sending the normal ukrainian conscripts to the slaughterhouse and the banderists are keeping them in line while beeing behind the frontline in relative safety. if you missunderstand me i mean the galicians with banderists not all ukrainian soldiers…
replying to the above comment; i don’t find nazis to be all that strange at all; they have been with us under different names since the beginning of time itself; even as in different life forms. when dracula looks into a mirror and sees no reflection, it’s symbolic of an organism that’s incapable of the age old maxim of “i think, therefore i am”. what is it? i don’t know; what’s the definition of life?
how many neo nazis have died in ukraine? a lot. most recently, zelensky used
some of his best trained neo nazi troops for the kursk cauldron trap. he was criticized heavily for it. neo nazi officers have a longer life expectancy but many have met the wrath of russian precision strikes as well…
how many have been sent to sleeper cells in europe and the us? ready to be activated when needed to keep the citizens in check?
now reported 15000-20,000 anglo–other foreign troops in ukie military–euphemistically called mercenaries
oh look the media calls them that. i’d bet there s probably a few at most
the ss had the skull of golgotha on their caps they were mainly aristocrats, prince’s old school catholic families secretly the 400, who terrorised the germans into total submission. the vatican was the first state on earth to congratulate hitler on becoming chancellor the first thing he did was write new laws, well they the lawyers did it acting for him, to set him up as their puppet, which in effect made him an autocrat. so yes its since pharoah. absolute power.
most sensible ukraines took off back in 2014 onwards then the foreign actors were already bussing in polish mercenaries abd pretending that they were ukraines in the media.. the vatican absolutely loathed the poles for being tolerant of jews.
you don’t know the history so you don’t understand the events.
huh, the hitler-pilsudski pact was fine, so the poles like nazis. surely they can live good with those “ukrainians”.
it was entrapment to set up war against russia with intentions of stealing russia “they hate the truth” pope benedict.
does not matter. poland was allied with hitler.
just about every state in europe was “allied with hitler” at some point, if one characterizes any form of cooperation as being in an alliance. the current looney-tunes five eyes story is that hitler and stalin were allies simply because the soviets gave up begging for french and british guarantees of protection against the germans.
correct, and thats why i brought up the hitler-pilsduski pact.
poles really love to screech at the molotov-ribbenbokwhatshisname non-agressionpact and deem that an “alliance”, while ignoring their own “alliances” with the nazis.
in my opinion, this is just another example of how ukrainians were used and disposed like a used condom by everyone even the poles. now that the country is collapsing and the conflict is grinding down, the poles feel like it’s time to stop pretending. in my opinion, neo nazis were meant to die from the very beginning and were led astray to the slaughterhouse by their benefactors…
course its entrapment by design. “never trust anyone” queen mum
“we are all disposable to them” qe2
does anyone really think the neocons and the neonazis can get along for long? the neonazis were just used for regime change in kiev and now to fight to the last ukrop. they are incredibly stupid while the neoconnivers just sit in the background conniving and egging them on with meaningless promises.
“this has upset warsaw, since many polish citizens were killed by ukrainian nationalists.”
kind like what the polish regime organized against german communities of poland from about april to august 1939.
stoltenberg—ukraine will cease to exist unless territory ceded to russia
didn’t stoltenberg just cease to exist, or did he never exist as an independent entity at all? maybe he was just a hologram of a wind up monkey all along.
you tube—radio tapok; “belgrade”
sf neo nazi nest of the kremlinn parrots
speaking of wind up monkey holograms…..