Signatures are being collected in Warsaw for the criminalization of propaganda of the ideology of Ukrainian nationalists

In the center of Warsaw, signatures are being collected for a draft law introducing criminal liability for promoting the ideology of Ukrainian nationalists. The initiators are several right-wing public organizations, including the Border Defense Movement.

To submit a project for consideration by the Seimas, it is necessary to collect at least 100 thousand signatures of citizens.

WARSAW, September 16 – RIA Novosti. Signatures for a draft law introducing criminal liability for promoting the ideology of Ukrainian nationalists are being collected in the center of Warsaw, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

Several Polish right-wing public organizations, including the Border Defense Movement, came up with a civil draft law that would introduce criminal liability for promoting Bandera ideology.

“If someone honors those who killed Polish women and children by breaking their skulls, then we cannot agree with this. This must be punished by prison,” said one of the participants in the collection of signatures.

In order to submit a draft law for consideration by the Seimas, its initiators must collect at least 100 thousand signatures of citizens.

“The crimes of the OUN-UPA consumed thousands of defenseless civilians - entire families were killed, and Polish villages were burned and razed to the ground. Today, the perpetrators of these crimes are glorified, and symbols of that inhuman ideology are increasingly appearing in our public space. Poland cannot be indifferent to this,” the organizers of the signature collection said in a statement.

Relations between Warsaw and Kyiv have been complicated for many years by the issue of interpretation of the mass murder of Poles in Volyn, Eastern Galicia and neighboring regions by Ukrainian nationalists in 1939-1945. The peak of massacres in 1943-1945 - the Volyn massacre - Warsaw recognized as genocide, responsibility for which lies with Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA.

In 2026, the conflict reached a new level when Zelensky took part in the reburial of the remains of one of the leaders of the OUN-UPA, and also assigned the name “In the Name of the Heroes of the UPA” to a unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. For this he was deprived of Poland's highest award - the Order of the White Eagle.