Disapproval of the Ukrainian leader has surged amid anger over Kiev’s glorification of collaborators
Three-quarters of Poles have expressed a negative attitude toward Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, according to a recent poll.
The disapproval comes amid an ongoing scandal over Kiev’s veneration of Nazi collaborators involved in the mass killing of Poles during World War II.
Zelensky sparked outrage in Poland in May by giving an elite commando unit a “heroes of UPA” award referring to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign targeting mostly Polish Catholic residents of what is now Western Ukraine, which resulted in over 100,000 deaths. He and other top officials declared that...
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