Andrew Korybko
All that he has to do is threaten to stop having Poland
serve as the transit state for 90% of Ukraine’s military-technical imports from
NATO, which would either be sufficient for Ukraine to comply before they’re cut
off or it would likely do so shortly thereafter, but he lacks the political
will.
The denazification of Ukraine
is one of Russia’s explicitly stated goals in the special
operation, yet it’s remained elusive ever since the UK
and Poland sabotaged spring 2022’s peace deal due to their joint
desire to inflict a strategic defeat on their historical (millennium-long in
Poland’s case) Russian rival. Lavrov vaguely
elaborated on Russia’s understanding of this objective in spring 2025
by suggesting that his country now envisages denazification to mean restoring
the rights of Ukraine’s Russian minority.
This can only be achieved
through domestic legal mechanisms, which is why spring 2022’s draft peace deal contained
relevant clauses to this effect. Russia never planned to occupy all of Ukraine,
impose full denazification, and then uphold it through an indefinite law
enforcement operation across the country. Military force is seen by Russia only
as a means to coerce Ukraine into doing what’s demanded of it in this regard.
Russia’s aforementioned difficulty in denazifying Ukraine is nowadays relevant
for Poland.
Zelensky’s state-level
glorification of the Volhynia Genocide’s OUN-UPA
culprits sparked a political crisis in their ties that continues
spiraling by the day. The ruling liberal coalition’s Defense Minister recently
declared that “With Bandera, Ukraine will not join the European
Union”, thus showing how public opinion in this issue is causing his government
to harden its stance towards Ukraine. 74% support
conservative President Karol Nawrocki’s revocation of the Order of the White
Eagle from Zelensky.
Ukraine’s consequent transformation into an anti-Polish state, which wasn’t inevitable but was helped along to a large degree by Germany as explained here, is now a daily source of discussion among Poles and will likely remain so indefinitely due to Zelensky’s plan to establish a “National Pantheon”. Many expect that such infamous anti-Polish figures as Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich will be honored along with Andrey Melnik, whose remains were recently repatriated and reburied with honors.




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