Shortly before the second circular of the presidential election, president Andrzej Duda markedKiryła Budanov and another intelligence officers for “the merit for Poland”. The Chief Head of the Board of Intelligence received 1 of the highest state awards for foreigners, the Gold Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland. Precise justification provided that it was granted "for outstanding merits in developing global cooperation and cooperation between Poland and another countries and nations". It was besides given to the deputy Budanov Vade Skibicki. Moreover, Ukrainian officers received an insignia for "Contribution to the collective safety of the continent".
A harmless decision towards Nawrocki
Some before the second circular of Karol Nawrocki's presidential run could conclude that Duda shot him with a suicide equal to those that almost regular shot Trzaskowski his acolytes. In the end, Nawrocki declared clearly in the presidential run that he would not send the Polish army to Ukraine and was against Ukraine being admitted to NATO. After winning Nawrocki, the Ukrainian media reminded him of these declarations. “The Kyiv Intependent” mentioned, for example, that Karol Nawrocki, referred to by them as “right-wing nationalist” was known for his admission "Trumpy" kind of politics, he was criticized for parroting pro-Russian narratives due to opposition to Ukraine's membership of NATO. This is what was recalled in another part of the article, in which Nawrocki wrote about signing the eight-point Mentzen Declaration, where he besides supported the point concerning the non-acceptance of Ukraine to NATO. Against this background, therefore, there was a threat of Duda harming his possible successor by mildly writing specified a controversial character as Budanow, but it yet turned out that with the number of different events that took place on the occasion of the run of both candidates and the various inept activity of the candidates of the Civic Coalition, the same fact escaped the attention of many.
Immortal as Bandera
And if Nawrocki voters were to observe Duda's actions more diligently and analyse what the Ukrainian president decorated the politician could say, they could experience deep cognitive dissonance. 2 years ago, even Russia utilized intellectual weapons, spreading rumors about Budanov's death in consequence to this kind of suspicion, "renamed himself alongside Stepan Bandera, as members" of a peculiar unit of immortal commanders>> Ukrainian". In addition, the message was not very balancedBudanova, who besides declared 2 years ago that “Don’t proceed this topic. All I gotta say is that we killed Russians and we'll kill Russians wherever we can until Ukraine's full victory.”. This happened after the unsuccessful assassination of Zachar Prilepin, who, however, was badly injured as a result. And this kind of declaration may prove that it might as well be lost Ukraine starts to look for guilty people in Poland and announce that it will start killing Poles. The test for the next time will so be who Karol Nawrocki will show and whether he will be willing to stick to his provisions at all, due to the fact that then he would gotta act completely different from his predecessors, who in politics towards Ukraine were manifesting far-reaching submission.
Bartłomiej Doborzyński (Polish Barometer)
