NEWS

26/08/2025

10:59

Fogiel on Polish-Ukrainian Ties:

Partnership Must Govern Our Relations.

Michał Olech

As for the relations between our states, well, it's no secret – and I won't sugarcoat it – that they are not as good as they were a few years ago, and certainly not through any fault of Poland's. And our Ukrainian partners must also understand certain things. They must understand that partnership should govern our relations – stated Radosław Fogiel on the "Graffiti" program on Polsat News, when asked about the state of Polish-Ukrainian relations.

So firstly, the Ukrainians had a lot of time, and Poland really showed a great deal of patience when it comes to such very basic issues as commemorating, exhuming, and allowing the burial and remembrance of the victims of the Volhynian Massacre. They avoided this topic. And today, I understand that in the first months of the war it looked different, but today truly nothing would stand in the way. We often heard from the Ukrainian side that Poles are generally blowing the issue out of proportion, that it's a marginal matter, that those black and red flags are some kind of grassroots initiative, very rarely encountered, and that they have nothing to do with Banderism. Well then, in light of that, where do such grumblings from Kyiv come from? – Fogiel continued.


Michał Olech