President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov, has renounced a Polish state medal after President Karol Nawrocki stripped Zelenskiy of Poland’s top honor over a historical dispute.
Diplomatic Tensions Rise
The move threatens to deepen a diplomatic rift between the close strategic partners as Kyiv rallies allies to push Russia to end its war on Ukraine. The dispute centers around Zelenskiy renaming a military unit in honor of World War Two-era Ukrainian insurgents blamed for massacring Poles.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called Nawrocki’s decision a ‘strategic error’, and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a Nawrocki opponent, urged both leaders to remain calm.
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