{"id":1038830,"date":"2026-06-20T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1038830\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:57:31","slug":"poland-revokes-white-eagle-order-from-ukrainian-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1038830\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Revokes \u201cWhite Eagle\u201d Order from Ukrainian President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland, has said that he will revoke the \u201cWhite Eagle\u201d order, Poland\u2019s highest and oldest state decoration, from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish president said in a statement on Friday, June 19, that naming one of Ukraine\u2019s military units after UPA criminals carries significance that extends far beyond Ukraine\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that for the overwhelming majority of Polish society, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) remains, above all, a formation responsible for the brutal crimes committed against citizens of the Republic of Poland during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish president described Ukraine\u2019s action as contrary to the values of Poland and Europe.<br \/>The \u201cWhite Eagle\u201d order was awarded to the Ukrainian president by the Polish government in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland, has said that he will revoke the \u201cWhite Eagle\u201d order, Poland\u2019s highest and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1038831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[134756,2000,299,141262,657,278168,658,286254,12873],"class_list":["post-1038830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-crimes","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-polish","tag-ukraine","tag-upa","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-white-eagle","tag-world-war-ii"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116782553520124812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}