Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called getting drawn into the conflict between Ukrainian and Polish politicians a strategic mistake. He wrote about this on X (Twitter) on Sunday, June 21.
“Getting entangled in the political conflict between politicians in Poland and Ukraine is a strategic mistake that will cost both sides: in business, geopolitically, and reputationally,” Tusk wrote in his post.
He believes that the conflict threatens both sides with business, geopolitical, and reputational losses.
Tusk also added that in politics, a mistake is worse than a crime.
"And in politics, as is well known, a mistake is worse than a crime. In conversations with my European partners, I try to minimize the losses and reduce the tension. It is not an easy task," Tusk wrote.
Brnięcie w konflikt polityków w Polsce i w Ukrainie to strategiczny błąd, na którym stracą obie strony: biznesowo, geopolitycznie i reputacyjnie. A w polityce, jak wiadomo, błąd jest gorszy od zbrodni. W rozmowach z moimi europejskimi partnerami staram się minimalizować straty i…
— Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) June 21, 2026
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on June 19, Polish President Karol Nawrocki revoked the decision to award Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the Order of the White Eagle—Poland’s highest state honor. Following this, Zelenskyy posted a message indicating that he had sent the order to Poland via Nova Poshta.
Later, former Ukrainian presidents Leonid Kuchma, Viktor Yushchenko, and Petro Poroshenko announced their decision to decline the Order of the White Eagle.
As a reminder, Nawrocki explained his decision to strip Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle by citing an alleged “pain threshold” of Polish society.
The scandal between Ukraine and Poland erupted as soon as Zelenskyy’s decree was published on May 26, awarding one of the units of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine an honorary designation in honor of the Heroes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
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