Poland on Saturday marked the 83rd anniversary of the Volhynia massacres, with senior officials travelling to memorial sites as the commemorations unfolded against a backdrop of strained relations with Kyiv.
Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz paid tribute to victims in Volhynia, while President Karol Nawrocki honoured the dead in Radruż. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced plans for a new monument in Warsaw featuring a memorial wall and eternal flame. The observances fall on Poland's national day of remembrance for the genocide, marked each year on 11 July — the date in 1943 when Ukrainian Insurgent Army partisans launched coordinated attacks on hundreds of Polish villages.
Tensions deepened after Zelenskiy honoured a military unit with a UPA-linked name in late May, prompting Poland to revoke his Order of the White Eagle.