Despite being an ally of Ukraine, Tusk has said the blame for the diplomatic crisis lies with Kyiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will skip a key post-war recovery conference in Poland this week, Kyiv said on Tuesday, amid a spiralling diplomatic spat between the allies over Second World War memory.
Zelenskyy infuriated Warsaw last month by naming a military unit after the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a group that took part in massacres against Poles during Second World War.
Poland’s nationalist president Karol Nawrocki responded by stripping Zelenskyy of Warsaw’s highest honour, the Order of the White Eagle, prompting several top Ukrainian officials to hand back their Polish awards.
The row threatens to overshadow the Ukraine Recovery Conference, which is scheduled to begin in Gdansk on Thursday and aims to gather business leaders and officials to discuss the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.
