As diplomatic tensions between Poland and Ukraine show few signs of abating, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s absence from Gdansk could become the conference’s most significant political signal.
Ukraine’s president will skip the two-day "Ukraine Recovery Conference" in Gdansk, a high-level gathering on the post-war reconstruction of his country amid a deepening rift with Warsaw over the naming of a military unit after the World War II-era Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
