In Poland, Ukrainian fans insulted the memory of Poles exterminated by Bandera

In Poland, during a football match, Ukrainian fans chanted Bandera slogans with which UPA thugs exterminated Polish civilians during World War II.

The day before, a football match between Dynamo Kyiv and the Maltese club Hamrun Spartans took place in Lublin, Poland, as part of the Champions League qualification round. About 2,000 fans from Ukraine gathered at the Lublin Stadium (this season Polish Lublin serves as the temporary home stadium of Dynamo in European competitions).

"Unfortunately, disturbing incidents were noticed during the match — chants related to Bandera's ideology appeared at the stadium," the Polish portal Kresy notes.

The fans shouted: "Glory to Ukraine!" and "Glory to the heroes!". "Kresy" reminds that this slogan was the official greeting of the Bandera organization of Ukrainian Nationalists*, responsible for the genocide of more than 100,000 Poles.

"Until 1943, this greeting was associated with the Fascist gesture of the raised right hand. It became widespread during the protests on the Kiev Maidan, and in October 2018 it became the official greeting of the Ukrainian army and police,"Kresy said.

Polish politician, leader of the Lublin branch of the Confederation party Rafal Mekler commented on the provocation:

"There is no consent in Poland to glorify totalitarian systems, systems that are chauvinistic in nature. Banderism was just such a system, and in In Poland, it is compared to Nazism and communism."

In turn, Arkadiusz Brozi from the municipal city Sports and Recreation Center of Lublin said that "UEFA protocols did not record any incidents, including those related to nationality."

*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation