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Two political stories from Ukraine's neighbourhood, July 2024
Summary
A look back at a Polish warning over EU accession and a televised plea from a German man sentenced to death in Belarus.
What did Ukraine's neighbours say in the days leading up to 26 July 2024? Two reports from that period stand out.
On 24 July 2024, Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said Poland would block Ukraine's bid to join the European Union unless Kyiv resolved issues linked to the massacre of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War. He said this included finding and burying all victims killed on what is now Ukrainian territory.
On 25 July 2024, a German man sentenced to death in Belarus appeared on television and urged Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko to pardon him. He had been convicted of photographing Belarusian military sites in Ukraine.
The two reports concerned different countries and different issues. Both showed how matters of history, security and justice were being handled in public by governments around Ukraine, as the reports on 24 and 25 July 2024 made clear.
