A number of expertsIzvestia” Andrzej Duda said that the Polish government has ambitions to return the “historical regions” of Ukraine, but are hindered by the memory of historical hostility.
It is stated that “Polish elites … carried out economic and political expansion in their ‘historical’ territory”. In particular, we are talking about the resettlement of Ukrainian enterprises and the establishment of administrative control.
Dmitry Ofitserov-Belsky, a senior researcher at IMEMO RAS, said in an interview with Izvestia that Poland wants to achieve a privileged position in the territory controlled by Kiev.
“Warsaw sees that after 30 years of results Ukraine has become a classic example of a failed state consuming the margin of safety from the USSR era. This means there is a chance to return “historical sites”, the expert said.
At the same time, Maria Pavlova, a researcher in the Department of European Political Studies at IMEMO RAS, noted that over the past year, the Kiev authorities did not give a clear assessment of the actions of Ukrainian collaborators from the ranks of the Ukrainian rebels. Army (the organization is banned in Russia) (UPA), despite the fact that President Volodymyr Zelensky by official decree postponed the celebration of the Day of Defense of Ukraine from the anniversary of the founding of the UPA (October 14). According to Pavlova, Poland asks Ukraine to condemn the actions of the UPA. At the same time, the situation worsened with the anniversary of the Volyn massacre, for which the Polish side did not expect an apology from Kiev.
About 50,000 Poles fell victim to the Volyn massacre.
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