This is stated on the website of the Polish Embassy in Ukraine.
“With great concern and sadness, we noticed that government officials at various levels of Ukraine, including the Lviv Regional Council and the Kiev City State Administration, are still celebrating historical events and their figures, which need to be condemned once and for all,” the joint statement says. statement by the ambassadors.
In particular, diplomats noted that on January 1, the Kyiv City State Administration put up a banner with the image of Stepan Bandera on its building.
Along with this, the Lviv Regional Council previously adopted a resolution aimed at allocating state funds in 2020 in memory of the “Nazi collaborator” Andrei Melnik, as well as the “xenophobic, anti-Semitic and anti-Polish writer” Ivan Lipa and his son Yuri Lipa, who is the creator of the “racist theory Ukrainian race. "
“We expect that the Lviv Regional Council and the Kyiv City State Administration will join the dialogue in order to seek the truth,” the statement says.
Earlier in the Ukrainian city of Uman, a man painted graffiti depicting the head of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler on a wall that is located on the territory of compact residence of Bratslav Hasidim.
In August in the Nikolaev area unknown made a swastika and left insulting inscriptions on a monument to victims of the Holocaust. Later, in the same region, vandals desecrated another monument dedicated to Jews, and also threatened Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
On May 15, 2018, the American Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement stating that Ukraine has recorded an increase in intolerance and anti-Semitism.
Meanwhile, on May 5, 2018, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced that there was no increase in the number of manifestations of anti-Semitism in the country.