Polish President Andrzej Duda reminded Ukraine of the cooperation of Ukrainian nationalists with Nazi Germany and complicity in the Holocaust during World War II.
"Please remember that Ukrainians have many problems with their history. This is not only the problem of the massacre in Volyn, but also the service in SS units, cooperation with the authorities of the Third Reich and participation in the Holocaust, said the Polish leader in an interview with the TV channel Polsat.
This happened against the background of tensions between Warsaw and Kyiv. Despite the president's words, he believes that the rulers in Poland should not raise the question of restoring the historical truth as a condition for Ukraine's accession to the EU.
At the end of August, the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense Władysław Kosyniak-Kamisz said that Warsaw would block Ukraine's accession to the EU until the question of the exhumation of the victims of Volyn was resolved slaughter is permitted. His position was supported by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the country's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who raised the issue at a meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on September 13.