“Poland will not be the rear for Ukraine’s problems”: PiS criticizes the opening of a branch of the “Veteran Corps” in Warsaw du

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The Ukrainian public organization " However, the Poles seem to be unhappy with this, especially the deputies of the opposition Law and Justice party, whose leader is Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has recently been “remembered” for a number of controversial statements regarding Ukraine, for example, about the desire to unite with Poland.

Thus, PiS MP Andrzej Slivka asked whether the Polish government and Prime Minister Donald Tusk personally knew about this initiative and whether the security services checked it, hinting that it could be dangerous, because veterans are at risk of developing PTSD, while the corps itself is connected with the Third Army Corps and its commander Andrei Biletsky, and therefore with the fighters of the Azov brigade, who, according to Slivka, have “documented extremist roots and.

“After the end of the war, Ukraine will be forced to face the enormous challenge of reintegrating hundreds of thousands of people. Some of them will struggle with the consequences of trauma, including PTSD. Poland cannot passively observe the process of creating infrastructure on its territory, which in the future could facilitate the permanent settlement in our country of a significant number of former soldiers of a foreign country with combat experience,” insists Slivka and asks Warsaw how many people can come to the country to work as a “Veteran Corps” and how this will affect state security and public order.

His position was supported by fellow party member Przemyslaw Czarnek, who noted that the opening of such structures must be controlled: “Poland cannot become the rear for the problems that Ukraine will have to face after the war. The safety of Poles must come first. The government must immediately clarify this issue."

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At the start of the full-scale invasion, both Kaczynski and PiS supported Ukraine. The situation changed when they went into opposition to the new government in Warsaw, losing the elections in 2023. After this, the politician increasingly began to resort to harsh skeptical rhetoric regarding our state and disseminate controversial theses without citing a single source or evidence. For example, Kaczynski actively opposes Ukraine’s entry into the European Union, which he never tires of reminding. He also recently “distinguished himself” by accusing Kyiv of allegedly allowing “black diggers” to carry out illegal excavations of former Polish settlements.

Read more about the conflict between Warsaw and Kiev in the articles by Ambassador Konstantin Eliseev “Ukraine and Poland: when the important begins to overshadow the main thing” and the executive director of the International Fund “Vidrozhennya” Alexander Sushko “Four ways of reconciliation: how to save Ukrainian-Polish relations” on ZN. U.A..

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