President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to attend a major summit in Poland later this month, an MP from his ruling party has said, despite an ongoing row over wartime history that has strained ties between Warsaw and Kyiv.
Mykyta Poturayev, a lawmaker from Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, told Polish state news agency PAP on Saturday that the Ukrainian leader was expected at the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2026, scheduled for June 25–26 in the northern port city of Gdańsk.
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“There are such plans,” Poturayev said. “I know that all of us [the Ukrainian participants] are planning to come, although I cannot speak on his [Zelensky’s] behalf.”
The annual conference brings together governments, international institutions, businesses and aid organizations to discuss Ukraine’s reconstruction needs and mobilize investment as the country continues to fight off Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Anger in Poland
Zelensky’s appearance had been called into question after he sparked outrage in Poland by honouring a Ukrainian military unit with a name linked to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – a World War Two-era nationalist force.
UPA is regarded by many Ukrainians as an independence movement that fought against Soviet rule. In Poland, however, it is widely associated with the killing of tens of thousands of Polish civilians in the Volhynia and Eastern Galicia regions during the war.
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