Fated to be good neighbors: Ukraine reveals its strategy for relations with Poland
Photo: Heorhii Tykhyi, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
Ukraine and Poland are working to normalize their relations, and progress has been made compared to the situation in the summer, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said in response to a question from an RBC-Ukraine journalist during a briefing.
"In November, we can expect new momentum and more Ukrainian-Polish contacts, more Ukrainian-Polish events, and more Ukrainian-Polish visits," he said.
According to Tykhyi, Ukraine is preparing all of this because it wants November to become a month of normalizing relations with Poland.
The Foreign Ministry spokesperson added that Ukraine’s course is focused on normalizing relations and what could be described as "pragmatic good-neighborliness." He stressed that it was time to move "from a format of charity, simply unconditional love for one another, to a format of pragmatism."
"We need each other. Minister Sybiha often uses the phrase 'fated to be good neighbors.' I think this is very much about us and our neighboring countries — 'fated to be good neighbors.' I believe this is precisely the approach we should follow," Tykhyi said.
In Poland, a 30-year-old man armed with a knife attacked two Ukrainians on a bus because of their nationality. Law enforcement officers have already detained the attacker.
Earlier, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar said that the number of attacks on Ukrainians in the country had increased by 30% over the past three years.
