The Prime Minister stated on Friday that it is not about “digging into history” but about building relations between countries based on truth. – We know that this the truth is not black and whiteit's not like there are angels on the Polish side and a crime on the Ukrainian side, but it's all the more true, and exhumation and a reliable assessment of what happened during and immediately after World War II is necessary to establish good relations – he said Donald Tusk.
At the same time, the Prime Minister also stressed that Poland would do everything to continue supporting Ukraine in the war with Russia. Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Kułeba also commented on Kułeba's words for Polish Radio. Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. – Without exhumation and commemoration of our victims there is no good future. This is not a matter of history, it is a matter of healing the wound that is today – said the leader of PSL.
Loud words of the Ukrainian MFA chief. Donald Tusk: Ukraine must meet standards
According to Tusk, “Deputy Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz did not discover America.” – Ukraine will not become a member of the EU without Polish consentUkraine must meet standards, and they are diverse, it is not only a question of trade, border, legal standards, it is also a question of, I would say, cultural and political standards – the head of government clearly indicated.
– There would be no EU without truth and reconciliation between the Germans and the French, the Germans and the Poles, even if there are still some justified expectations on our part towards the Germans, generally speaking, reconciliation was based on historical truth – said the leader of the 15 October Coalition.
The Prime Minister added that “Ukraine, with our great respect and support in the military effort, must also understand that joining the EU also means entering the area of standards regarding political culture.”
Donald Tusk on Poland-Ukraine relations. A clear position
– So, yeah, Prime Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz is right, as long as there is no respect for these standards from the Ukrainian side, Ukraine will certainly not become part of the European family – said Donald Tusk. – I believe that not later, but sooner, Ukrainians themselves will also come to the conclusion that Polish-Ukrainian friendship based on historical truth is first and foremost in their interest – he conveyed.
– I am the last one to admonish Ukrainians today, when they are fighting heroically, but I I will explain it more and more clearly to my friends from Ukrainethat it is in their interest to regulate Polish-Ukrainian relations, when it comes to these difficult matters, based on the truth. So we have to dig into this history – Tusk concluded.
The Volhynia Case. Kosiniak-Kamysz: I thought there would be much more reflection
The aforementioned Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense also said during his visit to the USA that “Such treatment of the Volhynia issue is unacceptable“.
– I thought that the war in Ukraine and the combination of our efforts would make it here much greater reflection. Words from Olsztyn (the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs spoke there) Dmytro Kułeba – ed.) are for many painful in Poland and unjust – emphasized the head of the Ministry of National Defense.
Kułeba's famous statement was made during the Campus Polska Przyszłościwhen one of the participants asked when Ukraine plans to exhume the victims of the Volhynian massacre from World War II.
Dmytro Kuleba's loud words about Volhynia. Statement of the Ukrainian MFA
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy responded by referring to Operation Vistula and spoke about Ukrainians forcibly expelled “from Ukrainian territories”. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy noted that “digging into history“it only divides people, which is beneficial at the moment Moscow.
Shortly afterwards, in the case the announcement was issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. “In response to a question from one of the participants of the youth forum in Olsztyn, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine spoke about thousands of Ukrainians who, as a result of the crimes of the communist regime – Operation Vistula – were forcibly resettled from the territories of Poland, where they lived in a close-knit community,” explained the spokesman for the Ukrainian diplomacy. Heorhij Tychyj. “It is in this spirit that his words about 'Ukrainian territories' should be understood. (in the English original 'Ukrainian territories') – i.e. the territories of Poland where Ukrainians have historically lived in a close-knit community,” the spokesman emphasized.
The Ukrainian ministry noted that the rest of the minister's answer concerned the need to search for a common present and leave history to historians.
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