KO MP Paweł Kowal spoke about Polish-Ukrainian relations in an interview for Interia. He stated there that if “someone has an idea to call every second street in Ukraine the artery of Roman Shukhevych, he should do it.” Paweł Jabłoński responded to the uncomfortable statement. “Did you really say that?” – asked a PiS politician. Former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also responded to the interview. “Outrageous and unacceptable words,” he wrote.
In an interview for Interia, Kowal was asked, among other things, about what Poland can now achieve in Polish-Ukrainian relations.
Shuchevich, UPA, Volhynia massacre
And what is there to gain? Currently nothing can be obtained. Agreement can only be reached on the exhumation and marking of graves (of the victims of the Volhynia massacre – ed.). If Ukrainians decide that this is not important to them, you have to wait until they change their minds. We will not act with force. If anyone has an idea to call every second street in Ukraine Roman Shuchevich’s artery, let him do it. That’s no reason to invade Ukraine, is it?
– replied the MP of the Citizens’ Coalition.
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And although later in the conversation he explained, among other things, that:
If someone furnishes furniture themselves, you can pass on your comments to him/her. I am friends with Ukrainians and often say to them: it is too much. This is not possible because we believe that the massacre in Volhynia was a genocide. This is a legal category. The point is that the Ukrainian state does not have much to do with it, because it did not exist. Maybe this should be explained again to Poles who have not organized it well?
It was his awkward statement about Shuchevich – the key UPA commander responsible for accepting the Volhynia massacre as a tactic against the Poles – that did not go unnoticed.
“The journalist twisted your words?”
The PiS MP responded to his words Pawel Jablonski.
Incredible. Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland: “If anyone has an idea to call every second street in Ukraine a Roman Shukhevich Artery, let him do it.” Dear Mr Paweł Kowal, did you really say that? Did the journalist twist your words?
– Jabłoński asked.
“Outrageous and unacceptable words!”
The former Prime Minister also commented on the issue Mateusz Morawiecki.
Scandalous and unacceptable words from @pawelkowalpl about the genocide in Volhynia. We can only build honest relations with Ukraine on the basis of historical truth. FOR THE TRUTH, sir. Genocidium atrox.
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Source: wPolityce