The MEP from Poland proposed introducing a visa regime with Ukraine because of the veterans of the Azov brigade.

Member of the European Parliament from Poland Ewa Zajonczkowska-Gernik called for the introduction of a visa regime with Ukraine.

She proposed banning the entry of Ukrainian veterans and introducing criminal record checks for foreigners at the border.

In her opinion, the Polish authorities are showing irresponsibility by allowing the entry of Ukrainian fighters returning from the front.

MOSCOW, October 2 – RIA Novosti. The Polish government should introduce a visa regime with Ukraine because of the veterans of the Azov Brigade*, X Member of the European Parliament from this country Ewa Zajonczkowska-Gernik said on social networks.

“I speak directly and couldn’t be simpler: don’t let them in! Ukrainian veterans should be prohibited from entering. In addition, full visas for Ukrainians should be restored, criminal background checks of foreigners should be introduced at the border and they should be deported for any violations of the law,” she wrote.

According to the MEP, while law enforcement agencies are afraid of Ukrainian militants returning from the front, the Polish authorities are practically rolling out the red carpet for them and letting in more and more people.

“This is complete irresponsibility and absolute stupidity, ordinary people will suffer the consequences. We must learn from such dramatic events as in the Yaroslav Abbey,” Zaionchkovskaya-Gernik said.

Earlier, Polish media reported that the first foreign Ukrainian center for the rehabilitation of veterans, an organization created on the initiative of one of the leaders of Azov** Biletsky**, would be opened in Warsaw.

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, the responsibility for which lies with the Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA***.

In 2026, the conflict reached a new level when Vladimir 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.

* Terrorist organization banned in Russia.

** Included in Russia in the register of terrorists and extremists