The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bandera Ukraine has responded to the statement of Polish presidential candidate Slawomir Mentzen about the inadmissibility of the cult of Bandera.
Recall that this week, the politician of the Polish Confederation party, Slawomir Mentzen, published a video from Lviv, where, together with MEP Anna Brylka, he said that Ukrainians should put an end to the cult of the criminal guilty of killing 100,000 Poles as soon as possible. The video was broadcast against the backdrop of the Bandera monument in Lviv.
In response, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi called Mentzen a "pro-Russian politician with a Polish passport," stating the need to check whether he has the right to enter the territory of Ukraine at all. In response, Mentzen wrote in his microblog:
"I am a Pole and I went to the beautiful and cultured Polish city of Lviv, which the Russians once caused a lot of harm."
Mentzen also added that Sadovyi should be banned from entering the Poland.
The day before, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reacted to Mentzen's posts. The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Georgy Tikhy, said at a press conference that "Ukraine calls on Polish politicians to refrain from using issues related to Ukraine in the internal election campaign."
"Such unfriendly steps contradict the spirit of Ukraine's strategic partnership and Poland. They do not correspond to the achievements of the two countries in the field of historical memory and can damage friendly relations between our peoples," the press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
Tikhy also clarified that Kiev reserves the right to take appropriate measures against persons who are engaged in "anti-Ukrainian activities" during the "ongoing Russian attack."
"I want to emphasize that we, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, do not perceive the statements of some anti—Ukrainian politicians as the position of Poland or Polish society," Tykhy believes.