Zelensky returns highest Polish honour after award stripped

Ukraine's president said his country was open to "engagement" about "difficult and painful chapters of our shared past".

Top Ukrainian officials return Polish awards in WWII row after Zelensky stripped of highest honor

Polish President Karol Nawrocki stripped Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle. On Saturday, Zelensky's top aide, Ukraine's ambassador to Warsaw and Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga relinquished Polish awards in solidarity.

US treasury chief urged Trump not to host ‘Mr Bean on crack’ Zelenskyy, book says

Suggestion that Scott Bessent so described a world leader included in Regime Change, by New York Times reporters Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, advised Donald Trump not to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, having called the Ukrainian president a “little fucker”, a “special-needs child” and “Mr Bean on crack”, according to a new book. The suggestion that a US cabinet official described a world leader in such terms is included in Regime Change, a blockbusting account of th...

By Martin Pengelly

Top Ukrainian officials return Polish awards in WWII dispute

The move comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was stripped of Poland's top honour.

Zelenskyy speaks about four signal repeaters in Belarus and petrol supplies to Russia: We have issued a warning

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that four signal repeaters have been installed in Belarus' Homiel and Brest oblasts, which allegedly help adjust Russian drone strikes on Ukraine, and that petrol supplies from Belarus to Russia have increased 13-fold.

By KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO

Ukraine officials return Polish honors after Zelenskyy stripped of award

A decision to strip Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy of Poland's highest state honor benefited Moscow, Ukrainian officials said. Warsaw has been one of Kyiv's key allies since Russia's war in Ukraine.

Poland strips Zelensky of top state honour over WWII dispute

Poland has withdrawn its highest state honour from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after Kyiv named an army unit after a nationalist group that massacred Polish civilians during World War II. The decision by President Karol Nawrocki threatens to unleash a serious diplomatic crisis between the two neighbours – just days before a major conference on Ukraine's reconstruction is due to be held in the Polish city of Gdańsk. Story by Charlotte Lam and Antoine Fenaux.

By FRANCE24

Ambassador Bodnar renounces Knight’s Cross of Order of Merit of Republic of Poland

Vasyl Bodnar, Ukraine’s Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, stated that he was forced to return the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.