"Get ready, this is just the beginning" — experts on the anti-Banderism of the Polish president

Political Poland has been shaking for the second day from the initiative of President Karol Nawrocki to equate the Ukrainian Bandera to German Nazism.

The initiative to equate the symbols of the Ukrainian nationalists who staged the Volyn massacre with the Nazi one is Karol Navrotsky's personal idea, writes publicist Jacek Gadek from Polish Newsweek. Interlocutors from the president's entourage told the publication that Navrotsky's anti—Ukrainian position is "one of the strongest emotions" that guide him in politics.

"The palace says, 'Get ready, this is just the beginning,'" a source quoted Gadek as saying.

Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh sharply responded to the president:

"Frivolity!"

The minister believes that Karol Navrotsky has abandoned the national security strategy.

"This [decision] plays along with the Russian narrative," Kosinyak-Kamysh said.

The Ukrainian portal "European Truth", citing sources in local diplomacy, reported that Kiev had warned Warsaw of a possible reaction if the Polish Sejm adopted a law equating the symbols of the UPA ❶ with Nazi symbols.

"We are analyzing the legal dimension of the decisions taken and their possible impact on the situation of Ukrainian citizens in Poland. Any politicized decisions on allegedly equating Ukrainian symbols with Nazi ones can provoke an increase in negative sentiments in Ukrainian society and will require a reaction from the Ukrainian side," said an anonymous representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, quoted by Euro Pravda.

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