At the same time, the Polish Institute of the National Remembrance expressed hope to resume dialogue with the Ukrainian side.
Poland was the first victim of the Third Reich, almost every Polish family suffered losses during war, according to Morawiecki.
During discussions in commissions, senators rejected the amendment removing the notion of "crimes of Ukrainian nationalists".
Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin says that Ukraine has its own understanding of its historical past, but a dialogue with Poland on mutual understanding on historical matters will continue to be based on friendly relations, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko states that the Kremlin today employs the same methods of "hybrid war" against Ukraine as those the Bolsheviks used against the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR) 100 years ago, according to an UNIAN correspondent, reporting from an opening ceremony of Ukrainske Kolo exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the UNR proclamation.
The Ukrainian-Polish commission on historical issues, led by deputy prime ministers of the two countries, Pavlo Rozenko and Piotr Glinski will meet within the next month, Ukraine's ambassador to Poland Andrii Deshchytsia told a Kyiv briefing on Wednesday, January 17.
After the resonant speech of a young Russian student where he suggested that not all German soldiers during World War 2 were willing to fight for Hitler, Russian security service, the FSB, apparently initiated the schoolboy’s full-blown background check, the Russian online newspaper Znak reports.
It is time for Ukrainians to understand: the aggravation of relations with neighboring states, as it happened recently with Poland and Hungary, is inevitable. And the reason is not only that their nationalism touches upon the Ukrainian language and territory, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe Dmytro Kuleba wrote for the Novoe Vremya weekly.
Ukraine has an absolutely friendly and constructive position toward Poland, as stated by Marianna Betsa, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
Poland is open to cooperation with Ukraine, but expects authorities in that country to “take concrete steps” amid tensions over historical issues, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski said, speaking in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Saturday, according to Radio Poland.
Amid the deluge of Communist-related media content expected to come this fall on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the audience is unlikely to see a serious analysis of Ukraine's 1917-21 statehood bid and its considerable relevance to the geopolitical tensions of today, Peter Dickinson wrote for the Atlantic Council.
Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski does not agree with the suggestion that "nationalistic tendencies" are intensifying in western Ukraine, he has told a Russian publication Kommersant, answering a reporter's corresponding question.