Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pledged to bring the war back to Russia, as drones swarmed toward Moscow. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing The Guardian.
Separately, Ukraine and Poland are embroiled in a bitter dispute over Kyiv's decision to rename a contemporary Ukrainian army unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
Poland holds it responsible for ethnic killings of up to 100,000 Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia during the second world war – and in 2016 adopted a parliamentary resolution calling it a genocide – but it is celebrated in Ukraine for their fight for Ukrainian independence and resistance against the Soviet forces.
On Friday, Polish president Karol Nawrocki stripped Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the country's top honour in retaliation for the move, prompting three former Ukrainian presidents and other senior officials to also return their state awards to Poland.
Announcing his decision on Friday night, Nawrocki said: "Poland has repeatedly signalled the particular importance of this issue to the Ukrainian side. We conveyed our position and expectation that the consequences of this decision for relations between our states be reconsidered. Ultimately, the position of the Ukrainian side did not change. History should not be an obstacle to the future, but a good future can only be built on truth."
In an interview posted on X last night, Zelenskyy said Ukraine and Poland cannot be "anything but partners and friends," but warned that a political struggle could end in a "very dangerous escalation."
But he blamed the Polish president for the conflict, claiming he is on political manoeuvres ahead of Poland's 2027 parliamentary elections.
"Our service members choose a heroic name for their unit themselves, and as president and supreme commander-in-chief, I must support them," he said. "Without Ukraine, no one will be able to defend Poland. It is simply impossible."
Poland's pro-European prime minister Donald Tusk – who previously distanced himself from Nawrocki's decision – said that rekindling the old disagreements was "a strategic mistake that will harm both sides: business-wise, geopolitically, and reputationally."
Zelenskyy was widely expected to attend the Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Polish city of Gdańsk later this week, but this is no longer certain, putting the hosts in a potentially embarrassing position of having to talk about Ukraine without its leader.