Natalia Panczenko explains a loud statement for the 5th channel

At the beginning of February, Natalia Panczenko was 5 channels, Ukrainian news television. The activist associated with the initiative of Euromajdan, the activist said there, among others about the situation of refugees in Poland, which is ongoing in Poland, an election campaign and the growing growth of anti -Ukrainian rhetoric. Speaking of using tensions between Polish citizens and Ukraine, she warned against the potential consequences for political purposes. – Today every tenth resident of Poland is a Ukrainian. Plowing the emergency between Ukrainians and Poles is very dangerous, especially for Poland. Because it is in Poland that fights will begin, it is in Poland that the shops, buildings will start to set fire to, and so on – she said.

Although – as Natalia Panczenko emphasizes – her statement was hypothetical and talked about fears, after a few days a storm broke out in social media. Grzegorz Braun, MEP and candidate for the office of president, presented the statement of Panczenko as “insolent threatening to us with terror and provocation from the Ukrainians”, and he gave his entry with the hashtag “#stopkrainiszpolski”. Krzysztof Szymański (Confederation) from the parliamentary podium called for “immediate and forced excretion of Natalia Panczenko from Poland.”

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Leszek Miller also referred to the comment. – I am amazed that this kind of wording from Ukrainian activists fall. Ms. Panczenko should be in the Internal Security Agency today and be questioned whether she has information that may indicate the preparation of some attacks, whether she is associated with environments that would like to disturb the election process in Poland. It should be deported – former prime minister assessed on Radio ZET.

According to Panczenko herself, the confusion around her words is an example of “how Russian services in Poland work.” “They twist my words,” she wrote on social media last week.

In an interview with tvn24.pl, she emphasizes that her statement was hypothetical. – I talked about what could happen if politicians will continue to play in their campaign in their campaign; They will reach for topics that divide people and set them against each other. I talked about what can be fueled with xenophobic moods in Poland – she said. – I talked about what could start if the politicians accelerate. I meant Poland's safety and minority safety in Poland – added the activist. She also emphasized that “she talked about it for a reason”, indicating, among others on Fire in the building of the Ukrainian World Information Centerwhich took place in 2015.

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The Embassy of Ukraine in Poland issued an appeal in defense of the activist. She stated in it that “Natalia Panczenko is one of the most active leaders of the Ukrainian community in Poland.” “It organizes help for fighting Ukraine and is constantly working for the development of friendly Ukrainian -Polish relations”, because of what “has already been the target of Russian lies and disinformation campaigns” – added.

An open letter was also issued in the PANCZENKO case. The names of 30 social organizations and surnames of over 70 private individuals, including Agnieszka Holland, Janina Ochojska and Jerzy Owsiak, appear under it.

The signatories of the letter opposed the “unfair attacks and disinformation campaign” aimed at the activist and appealed to all participants and participants of public life to “stop distributing false information” on the subject of Panczenko and “responsibility in public debate”. “We cannot allow election campaigns to be built on divisions and antagonizing the Ukrainian community in Poland,” we read in a letter.