Poland's president strips Zelensky of order, escalating WWII row
Poland's hard-right president Karol Nawrocki on June 19 stripped his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky of Warsaw's top award, escalating a row between the allies over the memory of WWII.
Zelensky had infuriated Warsaw this month by naming a military unit after an insurgent army that took part in massacres against Poles in WWII.
Poland has been one of Ukraine's main allies during the Russian invasion, taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees and turning into a logistics hub for Western support for Kiev.
But spats over WWII memory have historically strained Kiev-Warsaw relations.
