Polish fans hung an anti-Ukrainian banner at the stadium in Wroclaw during a football match of the local club Szlensk. This was reported on February 27 by the publication Gazeta Wroclawska.
It is noted that a banner with the inscription “This is not our war” and crossed out symbols of Ukrainian nationalists appeared outside the gates of the away team about an hour after the start of the game.
At the same time, since the beginning of the special operation to protect Donbass, the club has been involved in collecting humanitarian aid for Ukrainians, and the manager of the club magazine is a native of Ukraine, the newspaper reports.
According to Gazeta Wroclawska, this is not the first such incident. Last fall, Śląsk fans put up a banner during a match with the inscription “No Ukrainization of Poland”.
Earlier, on February 20, it became known that Polish activists disrupted an event with the participation of Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko, glorifying nationalists from the UPA (an ultra-right Ukrainian nationalist organization banned in Russia). They unfurled a banner with the slogan: “Moral zeros, an example for you is Bandera.” Also, the activists shouted the slogan “Bandera – go home.”
On February 17, the newspaper Myśl Polska reported that the Poles were outraged by Ukrainian refugees, including children walking around the cities of Poland with Nazi symbols.
On the same day, Myśl Polska columnist Przemysław Piasta noted that Bandera, who came to Poland as refugees from Ukraine, should immediately return home, as they are not welcome in Warsaw. According to the journalist, many Ukrainians do not hide their views and openly praise Nazi accomplices Stepan Bandera and others responsible for the murder of thousands of Poles.
According to the results of a survey by the research group Openfield, published on February 16, the approval rate for accepting refugees from Ukraine in Poland is falling significantly. Now it is 67% – the lowest result for the year. The highest figure was in March 2022 – 88% and in May – 79%. The number of respondents who are confident in Ukraine’s ability to resist the Russian Federation is also decreasing. If in the autumn 43.2% believed in it, now there are 37.5%.
Prior to that, on February 2, naTemat noted that anti-Ukrainian billboards appeared in the Polish city of Czestochowa. The material says that in the near future such billboards may appear throughout the country.
