In mid-August 2022, Internet resources distributed a scan of letters allegedly signed by the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleboy and sent to his Polish colleagues. The letter contained a request to give the name of the Ukrainian figure to the street in Warsaw, on which the Russian Embassy was located. We checked how believable this information is.

This is the publication appeared In the evening of August 17, 2022, in the popular Telegram channel “War with Fakes”: “Stepan Bandera Street may appear in Warsaw. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine insists on this. A letter signed by Dmitry Kuleboy says that Ukraine, like Poland, advocates desovetization and decommunization. In this regard, the Ukrainian side proposes to rename Belvederskaya Street, where the Russian Embassy is located, in Warsaw on Stepan Bandera Street.

"Such a step will become a significant gesture of support for the Polish Republic and its citizens of the Ukrainian people," the letter says.

The Polish authorities are probably ready to agree to the proposal of Ukrainians. In any case, the representative of the Institute of National Memory (Inp) Peter Gorka Published On its Facebook page, a letter from the Polish Foreign Ministry, in which the Institute is invited to "heroize Bandera."

"In September 2022, the chairman of the Inp needs to meet with scientists and authors of books, journalists in order to popularize the image of the leader of the Ukrainian rebel army (UPA) as a hero of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine with Bolshevik Russia. The mayor and the Warsaw Administration, the possibility of making a decision on the renaming of the Belvedere Street, on which the Russian Embassy is located on the street. Stepan Bandera, ”the document says.”

In his publication, “War with Fakes” refers to the Telegram channel “Joker DPR”, where news appeared a day earlier (335,000 views), and her continuation About the Institute of National Memory - August 17 (462,000 views). Quite quickly the information was distributed on VKontakte (public "Summarians from the militia of Novorossia","Donbass Media Group Gorlovka","Hot spots"), And then the turn reached the media and large media resources, such as"Komsomolskaya Truth","Politicus","Truth.ru","Glas.ru","Public news service","Eastern tape news" And RIA Fan. She parted Polish segment of social networks. The news was commented by the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technologies and Communications, Deputy of the United Russia faction Oleg Matveychev And some Political scientists.

In this chain of reactions, at least one of the foreign policy departments of the two countries was clearly lacked. And he followed. First, on August 17, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Minister of Poland Marcin Pshidache (whose signature is allegedly under the second letter) declaredThat such a document never appeared in its ministry, and "linguistic errors clearly indicate potential authors of this provocation." And in published on August 18 tweet The official page of the Poland Foreign Ministry said: “The network is circulating fake letters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Poland for renaming the street in Warsaw. Fake information was widespread in Telegram by pro -Russian hactivists, who also distributed content about the alleged deportation of Ukrainians from Poland. ”

Under the pro-Russian Hactivists, apparently, the authors of the Joker DPR channel are apparently referring. Indeed, publication, which appeared on the channel on June 17, is very reminiscent of the August Case in the handwriting. In it, too, one could see the “insider” scan of the letter of Dmitry Kuleba to the Polish Foreign Ministry, this time with “a request to deport all Ukrainian male refugees from Poland from 18 to 60 years to send those to the front.” How easy it is to guess, and this news It turned out to be Fake.

Also on the message of the Polish Foreign Ministry in their Telegram channels reacted Verkhovna Rada And Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense Ukraine, thereby making it clear that the Ukrainian side refuses to recognize the authenticity of its letter. As for the second document, the pages of Peter Gurki (this is how it reads in the Russian surname Górka) and Darius Valusyak on Facebook, screenshots from which were exhibited on the Joker DPR channel, today at least Not are located In the public domain, and maybe completely removed. Moreover, the only Peter Gurka, mentioned on the official website of the Institute of National Memory - artist, and nothing is known about his membership in the organization, just a military-historical album of reproductions of the master is put in the subsection “Bookstore” of this resource.

Why was the Institute of National Memory in this story in this story? The fact is that this organization (the full name is “the Institute of National Memory - the Commission on the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People”) is also involved in the issue of ethnic purges, from which the Poles suffered during the Second World War. Polish Law on the Institute of National Memory Dedicated, in particular, to the crimes of members of Ukrainian formations that collaborated with the Third Reich. The largest of these acts became Volyn Reasury of 1943-1944, to which Stepan Bandera personally had no relationship, but the activities of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN-B) led by him by many residents of modern Poland are perceived sharply negatively. Therefore, issues related to Bandera and Bandera are periodically becoming InfoPovod In the Polish media, then causing resonance in Russia and Ukraine.

It should be noted that, according to Polish legislation, the renaming of the streets is in the exceptional competence of the city council. Thus, on the specified issue, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should have contacted City Council of Warsaw, but not to the mayor of the city mentioned in the pseudo -cum. This once again proves that it is false.

We also note that some countries in solidarity with Ukraine really change the names of the streets on which Russian diplomatic missions are located. So, in Prague And Vilnius The streets on which the Russian embassies are located are now named after the heroes of Ukraine. IN Krakow The Russian consulate is located on the Square of Free Ukraine. And in Bratislava The street with the Russian embassy is named after Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition, who was killed in Moscow in 2015.