Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Photo: Getty Images
Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, has said that Poland will not agree to Ukraine joining the European Union unless Kyiv stops honouring members of the OUN and UPA, including Stepan Bandera. [The OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists) was a Ukrainian nationalist political group, the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) was its military wing, involved in armed resistance, and Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist leader often criticised in Poland for extremist actions during WWII – ed.]
Source: Kosiniak-Kamysz on the Gość Wydarzeń programme on Polsat News
Details: Kosiniak-Kamysz claimed Ukraine will face significant obstacles to European integration if it continues to use the OUN and UPA as national symbolic entities. He stressed that Poland will take a firm position and demand that Ukraine stop honouring leaders of the Ukrainian nationalist movement.
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