Consul of the Republic of Poland in Lviv, Eliza Dzwonkiewicz, condemned the protests of farmers and carriers on the border with Ukraine, assessing that these actions disgrace Poland. A true Pole would never stab his neighbors fighting for freedom in the back, she wrote on Facebook.
– I can’t stay silent any longer. For the love of one’s homeland. I cannot pretend that I do not see these actions that shame Poland on the Polish-Ukrainian border. I am sorry, dear Ukrainian friends. What is happening cannot be the work of my compatriots, she declared.
The diplomat recalled memories from her youth when she learned that during the Warsaw Uprising, the Russians, stationed on the other side of the Vistula, did not agree to the stopover of Allied planes carrying aid to fighting Warsaw.
– I thought only Russians could behave so shamefully. Ultimately, the aid intended for the insurgents was dropped from these planes earlier on the outskirts of Warsaw, quite accidentally, and ended up in German hands. Back then, as a teenager, I was convinced that only Russians could calmly watch another nation bleed to death… That we, Poles, would never do something similar, she wrote.
And what are “Polish” farmers and carriers doing today? I don’t believe they are Poles… A real Pole would never stab his neighbors fighting for freedom in the back. It’s not about demands, it’s about a form of protest. Disgrace and shame. I’M SORRY to the fighting Ukraine, I’m sorry – said Dzwonkiewicz.
She attached a photo of a painting by a young Ukrainian painter to her entry, which she received as a gesture of gratitude for Poles’ help to Ukrainians after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
– The painting shows sisters, Poland and Ukraine, in a tender embrace. Why are we destroying all this? – asked the Polish consul in Lviv.
