On November 18, Taras Melnychuk, government representative in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada, reported on the matter Andriy Melnyk became the new deputy foreign minister. The diplomat previously served as ambassador in Berlin. The current deputy head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spoke sharply about Germany’s policy after the invasion of Ukraine. His words about the Volhynia massacre caused controversy.

In an interview with Polish Radio 24, Mariusz Błaszczak considered that the nomination decision was wrong. “I think it was a bad decision. I am sure that, apart from the person concerned, there are other people who are happy with this decision – the Kremlin tenants. Because no doubt it can be assessed in this way – said the Head of the Ministry of National Defense.

The Minister of National Defense added that “when he spoke for the first time with the new Ukrainian ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Zwarych, he paid attention to the remarks made by the former Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin.” “That’s a very bad signal,” he said.

Controversy around Andriy Melnyk

Ukrainian diplomat rose to prominence on the anniversary of the Volhynia massacre. “Dear Polish friends, on this anniversary I would like to honor the Polish victims of the Second World War. Poland suffered especially during the tyrannical Nazi and Soviet rule. Today, we cannot allow anyone to separate Poland and Ukraine,” he wrote on his Twitter account.

A group photo of President Andrzej Duda and Volodymyr Zelensky joined the post. Internet users pointed out, however, that the post in German did not mention a single word directly saying it was about the Volhynia massacre memorial.

Melnyk about Bandera

In early July, Melnyk caused a stir with his statement on the program “Jung & Naiv”, where he was asked about his attitude towards the Ukrainian Rebel Army (UPA) responsible for the Volhynia massacre. The diplomat stated that Ukrainians were persecuted in the Second Polish Republic “in ways that are hard to imagine” and that “Poland was for the Ukrainian people at that time the same enemy as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.” “It was war,” said the Ukrainian diplomat. The diplomat acknowledged that there were Ukrainian crimes against Poles, but pointed out that “such massacres were also perpetrated by Poles”, arguing that tens of thousands of Ukrainians were killed then. In fact, it is estimated that around 50,000-60,000 people died in the Volhynia massacre. Poles and 2-3 thousand Ukrainians in reprisal.

The Ukrainian ambassador also argued that talking about Stepan Bandera’s anti-Semitism was a “Russian narrative”. “Bandera was not a mass murderer of Jews and Poles,” he said, stressing that he was not distancing himself from the legacy of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organization (OUN) and Bandera.

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