Polish PM Tusk calls for calming of emotions between Poland and Ukraine

Polish President Karol Nawrocki stripped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of a top honour, sparking tensions after Zelenskiy renamed an army unit in honour of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Polish PM Tusk calls for calming of emotions between Poland and Ukraine
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​Polish Prime ‌Minister Donald Tusk ​said on Friday ‌that the task of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and ‌Polish President Karol ‌Nawrocki was to calm emotions, not to stoke ⁠tensions, ​following ⁠Nawrocki's decision to strip Zelenskiy of ⁠a top honour.

Nawrocki's ​move came after Zelenskiy ⁠caused outrage by renaming an ⁠army ​unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent ⁠Army (UPA), nationalists who massacred Poles ⁠in ⁠World War Two.

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