Viktor Yushchenko, photo from his Facebook
The third president of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, also refused the Polish Order of the White Eagle after the decision of the President of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, to deprive Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of this award.
Source: Yushchenko’s press secretary Iryna Vannikova in Facebook
Direct speech: “The third president of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, decided to renounce the Polish Order of the White Eagle as a sign of his disagreement to review the decision on awarding the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.”
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Details: It is noted that any attempts to revise this decision today go far beyond the attitude of one politician and inevitably affect millions of Ukrainians who defend their country on the front every day, work for victory in the rear and lose their dearest in this war.
Vannikova noted that she remembers the tears in the eyes of Yushchenko and the then President of Poland Lech Kaczyński in Guta Peniatska in the Lviv region in 2009, where the commemoration of the Polish victims of the punitive operation during the Second World War took place.
“Then Yushchenko and Kaczynski deliberately chose the path of reconciliation. A few years earlier, our presidents together honored Ukrainian victims in the village of Pavlokom in Poland and emphasized the need for Ukrainian-Polish understanding despite the tragic pages of the past,” she added, also recalling Poland’s help to Ukrainians in the first months of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
“Today, Ukraine is not only defending itself. Our military is defending the eastern border of all of Europe. And any steps that weaken Ukrainian-Polish unity ultimately work only in favor of the Kremlin,” Vannikova wrote.
What preceded: Earlier on Saturday, the second president of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, announced about refusal of the order White Eagle.
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