| | In December 2020, after torchlight parades took place all over Ukraine honoring [[Stepan Bandera]], head of the [[OUN-B]], Ukrainian national hero, who was a collaborator with the Nazis during the [[Second World War]], and whose men massacred [[Jews]] and [[Polish]] civilians, Poland and [[Israel]] issued a joint communiqué to complain about the glorification of Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, the head of the other branch of the OUN, the OUN-M, and all others who actively promoted the [[ethnic cleansing]] of Jews and Poles.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PLinUkraine/status/1212760669285736449 Joint statement of Ambassador of Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki and Ambassador of Israel in Ukraine Joel Lion].</ref> | | In December 2020, after torchlight parades took place all over Ukraine honoring [[Stepan Bandera]], head of the [[OUN-B]], Ukrainian national hero, who was a collaborator with the Nazis during the [[Second World War]], and whose men massacred [[Jews]] and [[Polish]] civilians, Poland and [[Israel]] issued a joint communiqué to complain about the glorification of Bandera, Andriy Melnyk, the head of the other branch of the OUN, the OUN-M, and all others who actively promoted the [[ethnic cleansing]] of Jews and Poles.<ref>[https://twitter.com/PLinUkraine/status/1212760669285736449 Joint statement of Ambassador of Polish Ambassador Bartosz Cichocki and Ambassador of Israel in Ukraine Joel Lion].</ref> |
| | + | On May 3, 2022 President Duda said in a nationally televised speech, "I hope that [[Ukraine]] will be a brotherly state to Poland; that it will not have a [[border]] between them, that there will in fact be no border; that we will live together on this land, rebuilding ourselves and building our common happiness, our common strength."<ref>https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1521652429024120832</ref> |
| | President Duda said at the opening of the 2023 [[United Nations]] General Assembly session, "[[Ukraine]] is like a drowning man, it can drag us into the depths".<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/polish-president-grain-dispute-ukraine-202459286.html</ref> | | President Duda said at the opening of the 2023 [[United Nations]] General Assembly session, "[[Ukraine]] is like a drowning man, it can drag us into the depths".<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/polish-president-grain-dispute-ukraine-202459286.html</ref> |