Polish Far-Right Leader Braun Vandalises Ukrainian Monument with Hammer
Police opened an investigation into vandalism, property damage and ethnic hatred after Braun posted video of the attack.
- On Thursday, European Parliament member Grzegorz Braun published a video attacking a monument in Liski, Poland, that marks the burial site of 41 Ukrainian Insurgent Army soldiers killed in 1946.
- Braun declared the memorial should be removed because it "insults the memory of victims of the Ukrainian genocide against Poles" and "glorifies Nazism," claiming local residents fear removal attempts.
- Police have launched an investigation into vandalism and ethnic hatred, while Braun remains on trial for denying Nazi crimes and attacking a Jewish Hanukkah celebration with a fire extinguisher.
- Interior ministry spokeswoman Karolina GaBecka declared "the perpetrators will not go unpunished," as authorities investigate following damage discovered on Monday and vandalism reported last month.
- Reported hate crimes toward Ukrainians in Poland have increased 30% this year, straining diplomatic ties as tensions persist over the Volhynia massacres that killed around 100,000 civilians.
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The Polish prosecutor's office is investigating the circumstances of an act of vandalism against a monument and burial place of UPA fighters who died in battle with the NKVD in 1946, in the village of Bialystok in the Grubeszew County.
Far Right Polish MEP Spark Storm After Vandalizing UPA Memorial
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry criticized far-right Polish politician Grzegorz Braun after he posted a video showing him damaging a memorial to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in eastern Poland. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reported this in a comment to the Kyiv Post.
THE LEADER of the Polish radical right, Grzegorz Braun, published a video in which he smashes a monument in Poland erected to members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) with a hammer.
The chairman of the Polish Confederation party, Grzegorz Braun, has added fuel to the simmering fire in the Ukrainian-Polish conflict over the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The far-right politician posted a video in which he is seen smashing a monument to Ukrainian UPA soldiers.
'Shameful and immoral' — Ukraine reacts to far-right Polish politician vandalizing UPA monument
Polish far-right politician Grzegorz Braun published a video of himself damaging a memorial in eastern Poland, which commemorates UPA fighters killed while fighting the Soviet secret police.
A member of the European Parliament from Poland, Gzegoz Brown, broke the obelisk placed at the border in memory of members of the Ukrainian rebel army (UPA, an organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia). The politician posted on the social network a video of the dismantling of the monument, transmitting to RIA "News." On the frame, a parliamentarian and his supporter saw a boulder with the names of several dozen UPA supporters wh…
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