{"id":1392419,"date":"2026-06-20T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1392419"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:16:51","slug":"tusk-urges-calm-after-dispute-over-polish-honor-awarded-to-zelenskyy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/tusk-urges-calm-after-dispute-over-polish-honor-awarded-to-zelenskyy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusk Urges Calm After Dispute Over Polish Honor Awarded to Zelenskyy"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that tensions between Poland and Ukraine play into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin and urged both sides to avoid escalating emotions after President Karol Nawrocki moved to revoke the Order of the White Eagle previously awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UATV English<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe conflict between Poland and Ukraine delights Putin and shocks our allies. The task of Presidents Zelenskyy and Nawrocki is to calm emotions, not fuel tensions. The front line is elsewhere,\u201d Tusk wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/donaldtusk\/status\/2068070399527498085\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/donaldtusk\/status\/2068070399527498085\">X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p>Meanwhile, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov announced that he is returning the Gold Officer\u2019s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, which he received in 2025, in response to Nawrocki\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n   <p>Budanov said the move was a gesture of solidarity after the Polish president stripped Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland\u2019s highest state decoration.<\/p>\n   <p>Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha also announced that he would return the Commander\u2019s Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, awarded to him in October 2022, calling Nawrocki\u2019s decision a \u201cstrategic mistake\u201d that benefits only Moscow.<\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe regret that emotions have prevailed in Warsaw and pushed Polish politicians toward unjustified, impulsive and disrespectful steps directed not only against President Zelenskyy, but against the Ukrainian state itself,\u201d Sybiha said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p>He stressed that the issue was \u201cnot about orders, but about respect,\u201d noting that Kyiv had spent the past year and a half working to depoliticize historical disputes, restore the work of historians, and facilitate search, exhumation and reburial efforts requested by Poland, including ongoing work in Huta Pieniacka.<\/p>\n   <p>\u201cWe never wanted this conflict,\u201d Sybiha said, adding that the current escalation is \u201ccounterproductive and unnecessary for both Ukrainians and Poles.\u201d<\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cNot a single president of another country will dictate our history,\u201d the foreign minister stated, expressing hope that \u201ccool heads\u201d would eventually prevail and that Poland would return to an equal dialogue corresponding to the allied relationship between the two countries in confronting their common enemy in Moscow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned that tensions between Poland and Ukraine &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1257116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,36418,36415],"tags":[78,72925],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1392419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-zelenskyy-in-europe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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