Another day. Another attack on Ukrainians in Poland.

This time, three Ukrainian citizens were attacked in Kożuchów, Poland. All three were badly injured.

And please spare me the claim that these are just isolated incidents.

They are not.

In the first six months of 2026 alone, Polish police received 180 reports of hate crimes targeting Ukrainians - already 30% more than during the same period last year. And that number does not even include everything that has happened in June and July.

We have watched one case after another. A 60-year-old Polish man was beaten in Poznań after defending a Ukrainian boy who was being verbally abused. Two 13-year-old Ukrainian children were attacked in Legnica. Two 11-year-old Ukrainian girls were subjected to xenophobic abuse on a bus in Bielsko-Biała. A Ukrainian couple was beaten in Wrocław. In another documented case, two Ukrainian women were attacked in Poznań specifically because of their nationality.

And now three more Ukrainians have been injured in Kożuchów.

At what point do we stop pretending there isn’t a serious problem with anti-Ukrainian xenophobia in Poland?

You can disagree with the Ukrainian government. You can debate history. You can argue about migration policy. You can criticize Ukrainians. None of that gives anyone permission to humiliate Ukrainian children on buses, attack women, or beat people because they happen to speak Ukrainian.

And words have consequences. When Ukrainians are relentlessly portrayed as parasites, criminals, historical enemies, or people who should be “sent home,” eventually someone decides that attacking them is acceptable.

Even Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has now publicly called for an end to xenophobic attacks against Ukrainians, saying those committing such acts are acting against Poland’s own interests.

Poland showed extraordinary humanity toward Ukrainians after February 2022. That makes what is happening now even more painful to watch.

This hatred needs to be confronted - not denied, minimized, excused, or blamed on some imaginary russian hiding behind every Polish xenophobe.

Enough.