{"id":1399106,"date":"2026-05-29T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-polish-president-wants-to-strip-zelensky-of-the-order-of-the-white-eagle-details\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:04:38","slug":"the-polish-president-wants-to-strip-zelensky-of-the-order-of-the-white-eagle-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-polish-president-wants-to-strip-zelensky-of-the-order-of-the-white-eagle-details\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polish President wants to strip Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle: details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"301\"><strong>Polish President Karol Nawrocki wants to strip Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland&#8217;s highest state award, the Order of the White Eagle, following his decision to name an elite Ukrainian special forces unit the Heroes of the UPA.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"394\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Onet<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onet.pl\/informacje\/onetwiadomosci\/karol-nawrocki-ostro-reaguje-na-decyzje-ukrainy-chce-odebrac-order-zelenskiemu\/eek8r3w,79cfc278\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> this, citing quotes from Navrotsky.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"499\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy was awarded the Order of the White Eagle by President Andrzej Duda on April 5, 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"499\">\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/poland-declares-disintegration-of-nato-after-us-decision-to-withdraw-troops-from-europe\/\">Poland declares &#8220;disintegration of NATO&#8221; after US decision to withdraw troops from Europe<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"501\" data-end=\"707\">&#8220;The Chapter of the Order of the White Eagle will meet on June 8. I proposed including the issue of stripping Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of his Order on the agenda,&#8221; said Karol Nawrocki.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"886\">He noted that Zelenskyy&#8217;s decision to name the unit after the UPA Heroes, in his opinion, &#8220;provided Russian propaganda with excellent material and additional support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"945\">&#8220;I am very critical of this decision,&#8221; Navrotsky said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"947\" data-end=\"1087\">The issue concerns assigning the honorary title &#8220;named after the Heroes of the UPA&#8221; to the Separate Special Operations Center &#8220;North&#8221; of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1089\" data-end=\"1334\">The decree of the President of Ukraine noted that this was done with the aim of restoring the historical traditions of the national army and taking into account the unit&#8217;s exemplary performance of combat missions in defending the territorial integrity and independence of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1336\" data-end=\"1609\">This decision has provoked discontent within the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On Thursday, Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Bosacki met with Ukrainian Ambassador Vasyl Bodnar, during which they voiced their protest and emphasized the sensitivity of this move for Polish society.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1812\">Earlier, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/polshcha-planuie-vyprobovuvaty-novu-zbroiu-na-fronti-v-ukraini\/\">Pryamoy&#8221; reported<\/a> that Polish Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk announced plans to test military weapons directly on the front lines in Ukraine to strengthen cooperation between the countries.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"2029\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-mzs-polshchi-nazvaly-nedruzhnim-rozirvannia-kontraktu-na-budivnytstvo-zavodu-u-lvovi\/\">Polish Deputy Foreign Minister<\/a> Marcin Bosacki also criticized the Lviv authorities&#8217; decision to terminate the contract with the Polish company Control Process SA, which was building a waste processing plant in Lviv.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"2029\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Also follow &#8220;Pryamy&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish President Karol Nawrocki wants to strip Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland&#8217;s highest state award, the Order of the White Eagle, following his decision to name an elite Ukrainian special forces unit the Heroes of the UPA. Onet reports this, citing quotes from Navrotsky. Volodymyr Zelenskyy was awarded the Order of the White Eagle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1399098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76894,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1399106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399108,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399106\/revisions\/1399108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1399098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}