# Why Polish pressure failed to change the name of Ukraine's UPA unit

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2069348233977975177
- Source account: [@RadiowaTrojka](https://x.com/RadiowaTrojka)
- Source language: Polish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:40
- Published: 2026-06-23
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/pl/dlaczego-polski-nacisk-nie-zmieni%C5%82-nazwy-jednostki-im-bohater%C3%B3w-upa.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit) That doesn't matter at all. It's just that we were very angry.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=3) The President's Office is unable to understand causal relationships in foreign policy. We thought—and not only the President's Office, but also the government— that we would blackmail Ukraine in such a harsh way that it would withdraw this name.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=20) And Ukraine did not withdraw the name of UPA heroes for the military unit.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=25) Why? Because Ukraine announced it. It will not yield to pressure from foreign countries.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=32) Because it is a sovereign state. It does not want others to influence it.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=36) Just like any sovereign state, it is unable to yield to pressure.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=40) And I just want to remind you that Ukraine did not yield to the pressure of other actors either.

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=45) I recall President Zelenskyy's meeting with Donald Tusk.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=49) And now, to expect. that we would blackmail them in such a way as to achieve our goals was a complete misunderstanding of foreign policy.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=58) So we shouldn't have proposed this at all, with this stripping of the medal.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=64) We should have reacted very strongly, because I believe that naming it strikes at our dignity, strips us.

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=73) We should have taken decisive diplomatic steps. We could have summoned the ambassador, we could have issued a very serious note, we could have even passed a parliamentary resolution on this matter.

[1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/XA2RZieT2QUc/en/why-polish-pressure-failed-to-change-the-name-of-ukraine-s-upa-unit?t=85) And these are the proper diplomatic steps, but we resorted to dignity-based behavior, which we lost so terribly and completely, because first of all, the name was not changed, the medal was downgraded, and relations were ruined.