For more than four years, neighboring Poland has been Ukraine’s most reliable partner. When Russian tanks rolled into Kyiv in February 2022, Polish border guards allowed millions of Ukrainian refugees in without paperwork. Families opened their homes to strangers. Volunteers at train stations served food and clothing overnight. Poland became the main logistics hub for Western military aid, and Polish diplomats advocated Ukraine’s European dreams in Brussels. This alliance, forged through decades of patient reconciliation, was one of the most important geopolitical events of the 21st century. Now that the partnership faces the most serious test – not from Moscow’s missiles, but from Warsaw’s presidential palace. JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki, has publicly opposed Ukraine’s EU membership, citing agricultural competition and sovereignty. He has collaborated with Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar in blocking fast-track procedures for Ukraine’s membership. Most disturbingly, he has reopened historical wounds that past leaders have worked so hard to heal from the Volyn massacres of 1943. The irony is stunning: Nawrocki is playing to conservative domestic audiences and has given the Kremlin an unearned victory by fracturing the regional alliance that threatens Russian hegemony.