Poland's president has decided to strip Volodymyr Zelenskiy of the country's top honour after the Ukrainian president caused outrage by renaming an army unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, nationalists who massacred Poles during World War II.
President Karol Nawrocki's decision looked likely to unleash a severe diplomatic crisis between the neighbours just days before a conference on Ukraine's reconstruction in the Polish city of Gdansk.
"In light of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's consent to name one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 'Heroes of the UPA' ... I have decided to revoke the Order of the White Eagle from the president of Ukraine," Nawrocki said in a statement.
