Afghanistan, June 20 -- Polish President Karol Nawrocki said he will revoke Poland's highest state distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, previously awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, citing Kyiv's decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
In a statement issued on Friday, Nawrocki said the naming of a Ukrainian military formation after the UPA carried significance beyond Ukraine's domestic affairs and was incompatible with the values upheld by Poland and Europe.
The Polish president said his decision was a response to Ukraine's recent designation of a military unit in honor of the UPA, a wartime nationalist movement that remains a deeply divisive historical issue between the two countri...