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Polish-Ukrainian Church Urges Reconciliation Amid Zelensky Order Revocation

7/3/2026

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Polish and Ukrainian Catholic leaders signed a joint appeal in Rome and Kyiv urging reconciliation, disarming language and avoidance of inflammatory rhetoric.
The appeal follows Poland’s genocide label for the Volhynia WWII killings, a characterization that Ukraine rejects.
President Karol Nawrocki stripped Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, prompting Prime Minister Donald Tusk to say the move aids Moscow and Zelensky to return it to Poland.

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Polish and Ukrainian Catholic leaders signed a joint appeal in Rome and Kyiv urging reconciliation, disarming language and avoidance of inflammatory rhetoric.
The appeal follows Poland’s genocide label for the Volhynia WWII killings, a characterization that Ukraine rejects.
President Karol Nawrocki stripped Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, prompting Prime Minister Donald Tusk to say the move aids Moscow and Zelensky to return it to Poland.