Poland Revokes Zelensky's Top Honor Over WWII Deaths

Poland has stripped President Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, its highest award, over Ukraine's naming a military unit after the UPA—a World War II insurgent group that Polish records say killed roughly 100,000 Polish civilians between 1943 and 1945. The symbolic break matters: both nations need each other militarily and diplomatically now, and tensions over history risk fracturing that alliance during wartime.