Ukraine’s recovery to be deliberated in Poland amid Kyiv-Warsaw spat
Key takeaways
- Amid a brewing row that tests Poland’s alliance with Ukraine, President Zelenskyy will skip a key conference.
- xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, has said he will skip this week's forum in Poland amid a brewing row.
- It stemmed from the OUN, fought in World War II and for years resisted the Sovietisation and Russification of western Ukrainian regions that used to belong to Poland.
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Amid a brewing row that tests Poland’s alliance with Ukraine, President Zelenskyy will skip a key conference.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, has said he will skip this week's forum in Poland amid a brewing row. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, left, has tried to calm tensions [File: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters]By Mansur Mirovalev Published On 24 Jun 202624 Jun 2026Kyiv, Ukraine – Ukraine’s president, prime minister, parliament speaker, top ministers and generals stood solemnly at a military cemetery outside Kyiv on May 22 as servicemen carried the coffins of Andriy Melnyk and his wife Sofiya past them.
The ceremony was about “respect for Ukrainian heroes”, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said about Melnyk, a leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) that sought to create an independent Ukraine and who died in West Germany in 1964.