Poland’s Tusk calls for ‘mutual respect’ during row with Ukraine
Reuters
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky together in Kyiv in February
Poland's prime minister has called for "truth" and "mutual respect" at an event on rebuilding Ukraine that Volodymyr Zelensky skipped amid a diplomatic row between the two neighbours and allies.
Donald Tusk opened the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk without the Ukrainian president after he was stripped of Poland's highest state honour over the naming of a military unit after controversial World War Two fighters.
Warsaw and Kyiv have fallen out over the allusion to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), who many Ukrainians consider freedom fighters but who Poland accuses of genocide.
The row comes as Ukraine seeks further support and investment as i...