Announcing the move, Zelenskyy said: “No one will ever dictate how we live, how we speak, who we love, who we should be grateful to, or which heroes we should honor.” The proposal comes amid a deepening dispute with Poland over Ukraine’s decision to give a military unit the honorary title “Heroes of the UPA.” The Ukrainian Insurgent Army is revered by some Ukrainians as an anti-Soviet independence movement, but in Poland it is widely condemned for its role in the World War Two-era massacres of some 100,000 Polish civilians in the Volhynia and Eastern Galicia regions. The row has strained relations between Kyiv and Warsaw, which has been one of Ukraine’s strongest backers in its war with Russia. The dispute has seen Polish President Karol Nawrocki revoking Zelenskyy’s Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s top state decoration. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has urged both sides to lower tensions.