Ukraine slammed the decision as a "strategic mistake" from which "only Moscow stands to gain"
Poland’s hard-right president Karol Nawrocki on Friday stripped his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Warsaw’s top award, escalating a row between the allies over the memory of WWII.
Zelenskyy 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 Kyiv.
But spats over WWII memory have historically strained Kyiv-Warsaw relations.
