Polish President Karol Nawrocki has announced that he is stripping his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest state honour.
Nawrocki made the decision in response to Ukraine naming a military unit after the controversial World War Two Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
In a video posted on X on Friday evening, Nawrocki stressed that the decision to withdraw the honour "is not directed against the Ukrainian nation" and "does not signify a change in the strategic direction of Poland’s security policy".
He also underlined that Poland’s support for Ukraine in its war with Russia remains unchanged.
At the same time, he said that relations between Warsaw and Kyiv were being weakened by "the strengthening of a memory poisoned by crime".
