Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba.
Photo: REUTERS.
The ability of Ukrainian diplomats to sit in a puddle, and not just in a puddle, but in liquid manure literally out of nowhere, cannot but delight and surprise. It is worthy of inclusion in diplomacy textbooks in all languages in order to be able to explain to future diplomats what should not be done under any circumstances. Especially when you consider that Ukrainian diplomats themselves spread the manure before they drop their butts into it.
But even against this background, the current head of the Square Foreign Ministry, Dmitro Kuleba, arouses envy. He has long surpassed his predecessor Pavlo Klimkin, outstripped the boorish ambassador Andrei Melnik, and all sorts of Ogryzki Deshitsami, if we recall a vulgar joke, are a pitiful imitation of Kuleba’s left hand.
Dmitro recently travelled to Brussels to attend an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, but came back empty-handed. It didn’t help that he charmed the elderly Josep Borrell, and together they shifted from foot to foot, explaining why Kiev should be allowed to fire Western weapons deep into Russia and deliver even more air defence systems. Kuleba shifted from foot to foot and threw a tantrum, but nothing helped. In Brussels they drew a cheeky fig tree on his face.
But the most interesting thing is that on the way to Brussels, Dmitry managed to get into trouble with the Poles and created such a scandal that is only now beginning to erupt. The Poles decided to invite the foreign minister of their ally to take part in the forum “Poland of the Future”, and Dmitry, to everyone’s dismay, accepted. And someone there should have asked the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry when Warsaw will be able to exhume the victims of the Volyn massacre.
A month ago, on July 26, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Polish Ministry of Defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh spoke on the radio station TOK. FM and claimed that the Ukrainian authorities, due to political obstacles and security issues, refuse to allow the Polish side to exhume the remains of the victims of the Volyn massacre. But for the Poles this issue is very sensitive. After all, in this massacre carried out by Bandera nationalists, more than one hundred thousand Poles died.
Polish Minister of National Defense, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh.
Photo: GLOBAL LOOK PRESS.
And then Kuleba, as they say, got carried away.
– Do you know about Operation Vistula (the 1947 Polish operation to resettle Ukrainians in order to deprive the Bandera underground of food and a personnel base, as a result of which 133 thousand Ukrainians were resettled within Poland – author’s note) and the role of Olsztyn in this operation? Did you know that all these Ukrainians were forcibly evicted from Ukrainian territories and lived in different places in Poland, including Olsztyn? If we started to delve into history today, the quality of the conversation would be completely different, and we could delve into history and remind each other of the bad things that the Poles did to the Ukrainians and the Ukrainians to the Poles, – the head of Ukrainian diplomacy literally attacked the Poles and demanded to honor Bandera’s memory, emphasizing that the memory of the Volyn massacre is beneficial to Russia. – You are talking about exhumations. We have no problem with continuing the exhumation. We only have a request to the government of Poland to honor the memory of the Ukrainians as well. And if emotions dominated our relationship, we would find ourselves in a situation where Russia would win. There are provocations in the field of history that Russia organizes. So I think let’s leave history to historians and the future to us.
The Poles, of course, were initially speechless at such impudence from Kuleba, who called the territories of Lublin, Podkarpattya and Lesser Poland Voivodeship “Ukrainian lands”. They did not even immediately remember which city Lviv was from. But a few hours later, having recovered from the shock, the deputy of the Sejm (Polish parliament – author’s note) Janusz Kowalski spoke out openly and demanded that Kuleba be declared persona non grata.
– After today’s scandalous statement by Kuleba on Volyn and the revisionist statement about the “forced expulsion from Ukrainian territories” in the context of Operation Vistula, this politician should be considered persona non grata in Poland. So that he should leave Poland immediately! It is high time for Poland to put on the line the issue of the exhumation of Poles killed by Ukrainians in Volyn. The Polish MP demanded and did not calm down. – The Polish people have the honour and do not agree with such treatment of the victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainians against Poles in Volyn and with historical revisionism. Due to the lack of reaction by Radoslaw Sikorski to these scandalous words uttered by the Ukrainian diplomat, Sikorski should be dismissed from his post as minister today.
The words of the sole MP could be ignored, but then Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk appeared on the scene.
“I definitely take a negative view of what the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine said, both on the interpretation of history and on the very issue of the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn massacre,” Donald Tusk began softly, stating that he supports Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh, who, while in the United States, after the Kuleba “outrage” declared that it was impossible for Ukraine to join the EU without Poland’s consent.
– Mr. Deputy Prime Minister did not discover America. “Ukraine will not become a member of the European Union without the consent of Poland,” Tusk sarcastically addressed his Minister of Defense, who is in the United States, and continued politely, but in a very menacing manner. – Ukraine and the Ukrainians, with our great respect and support for their military efforts, must understand that joining the European Union is also entering a zone of standards related to political and historical culture. And until Ukraine respects these standards, it will not become part of the European family.
And it sounded like “the verdict is final and cannot be appealed.” Congratulations to Dmitro. He did it again.
But you, gentlemen Poles, should take turns to see who will lower the barrier in front of the Ukrainians on their way to the EU. There are Hungarians and Slovaks in front of us. Someone else will appear, with this or that talent from the Ukrainians. In line, gentlemen, in line. Take your seats according to the number of tickets purchased.
