This is not the time for a historical spat between Poland and Ukraine. Russia has relaunched its aggressive imperialism. Both Polish and Ukrainian sovereignty and security are under threat – Ukraine experiencing direct invasion. The fate of Europe is connected.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Today’s alliance between the two nations isn’t ceremonial. Ukrainian defense runs on Polish logistics and intelligence sharing. Polish security depends on Ukrainian resistance keeping Russian forces away from NATO’s eastern flank. So, it’s hardly the time to reopen old historical wounds. The past should be left to historians, not exploited by politicians. Both Polish and Ukrainian leaders need to display wisdom, tact, and restraint. Historical grievances from decades past cannot be allowed to overshadow what’s at stake right now. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening. The Volyn (Volhynia in Polish) massacres of 1943 – in what had been eastern Poland, inhabited mostly by Ukrainians, but at the time under Nazi occupation, with Soviet partisans being parachuted in and complicating matters even more – deserve rigorous historical examination. Questions about casualty figures, causes, classification? All legitimate. But politicians are weaponizing these questions for contemporary political purposes, threatening the alliance at a crucial juncture. The scholarly progress that politicians are now reversing