Cases
● Insult
On the evening of 15 October 2026, at around 9 p.m., a married couple living in Poland was walking their small puppy and stopped to pick up a parcel from…
● Police raid
On Sunday, 11 October 2026, a group of foreign workers, reported to be about 30 citizens of Nepal, arrived by bus in Łosiów, a village in the Lewin Brzeski municipality…
● Insult
On 7 October 2026, in a grocery store in Starachowice (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship), a 61-year-old man publicly insulted a 12-year-old boy, a Ukrainian citizen, because of his nationality, and then threatened…
● Physical attack
In the evening of 7 October 2026 (approximate date), in central Warsaw, Anatolii, a Ukrainian street musician, was attacked while performing in the street. A drunk Polish man first shouted…
● Insult
On Świdnicka Street in the centre of Wrocław, two Polish men confronted a Ukrainian cyclist who had stopped near them, aggressively demanding to know why he was riding that way…
● Insult
On Sunday, 4 October 2026, shortly before 10 a.m., on Garncarska Street in central Gdańsk, an aggressive man first started a row with an employee of one of the businesses…
● Insult
Shortly before 24 September 2026 (exact date not reported), in Wrocław, unknown perpetrators vandalised a car belonging to the mother of a Ukrainian man called Fedir (name changed). The words…
● Insult
On 22 September 2026, a Belarusian woman living in Gdańsk was verbally abused by a shop assistant in a store next to her home, which she visits almost every day.…
● Physical attack
On 20 September 2026 in Wrocław, a foreign woman working as a shop assistant in a Żabka convenience store was beaten by a male customer. According to her own account,…
● Physical attack
On 18 September 2026 in Warsaw's Wola district, Stanisław N., a 27-year-old Polish citizen originally from Belarus, was attacked after a rent dispute. In early September he had asked his…
● Labour raid
On or shortly before 19 September 2026, police officers from the Criminal Division of the Wrocław city police, together with Border Guard officers and Labour Inspectorate (PIP) staff, raided a…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman living in Poland was verbally abused by a man in the courtyard of her own residential building, according to her account. The man had climbed over the…
● Insult
On or around 13 September 2026 in Poland, a Polish man confronted a Ukrainian man outside a Dino supermarket. In video published by the Ukrainian, the man says "Polak jestem"…
● Physical attack
On the evening of Friday, 11 September 2026, Kuba Heisig, a cyclist from Chorzów, Poland, was beaten in the centre of Ostrava, Czechia. He was riding the "Rajza dla Marceliny"…
● Discrimination
On or around 11 September 2026, during a taxi ride in Poland, a passenger demanded that the driver speak Polish to her instead of Ukrainian. The driver is a Ukrainian…
● Insult
On 10 September 2026 in Tulce, a village on the outskirts of Poznan, a man began verbally abusing a Ukrainian woman who was out walking with her 15-month-old child. He…
● Discrimination
In early September 2026 a women's handball team from Rivne, Ukraine, was refused service at a petrol station in Kalisz (Wielkopolskie voivodeship) because the players were Ukrainian. The club was…
● Insult
On 8 September 2026 in Rzeszow a Ukrainian woman was sitting on a bench while waiting to pick her child up from a kindergarten, speaking Ukrainian with her mother. A…
● Physical attack
On or around 8 September 2026, in the middle of the day, a 20-year-old Ukrainian citizen was crossing the street at the junction of Świętokrzyska and Nowy Świat in central…
● Insult
On 6 September 2026, on the road out of Warsaw, a Ukrainian man driving from Warsaw airport towards Lviv was verbally abused by a Polish driver. According to the victim's…
● Physical attack
On the weekend of 5-6 September 2026, at around 8 p.m., a woman was sitting on a bench on one of the streets near Nowy Świat in central Warsaw, talking…
● Insult
In early September 2026 it became publicly known that a woman employed at the city hall of Przemyśl (Podkarpackie voivodeship), a city on the Ukrainian border, had published a Facebook…
● Insult
On the night of 2-3 September 2026, in Kłodzko (Dolnośląskie voivodeship), an unknown perpetrator sprayed the letters "UPA" on the entrance door of a catering venue on Łukasińskiego street that…
● Physical attack
On 2 September 2026, a man brutally attacked and robbed a Ukrainian woman next to a rubbish shelter on a housing estate at 13n Wilczak Street in Poznań. According to…
● Insult
On 2 September 2026, after Wizz Air flight W61496 from Tenerife (TFS) landed at Warsaw Chopin Airport, a male passenger began abusing two Ukrainian women who, like other passengers, had…
● Insult
In late August 2026, a young Polish woman was walking along a path through bushes towards a river in Poland to meet friends when she passed three drunk men going…
● Insult
On the night of 30 August 2026, at around 23:36, two unidentified people pasted stickers and posters over the facade and entrance of the Rubikon office on Jacka Malczewskiego street…
● Insult
On Sunday 30 August 2026, at around 3:30 p.m., a 50-year-old resident of Poznań came to the Ukrainian shop Odessa Market on Śródka street in Poznań. One of the shop…
● Physical attack
In late August 2026, in central Warsaw, a man was assaulted in the street after passers-by heard him speaking a foreign language. According to his own video account, he was…
● Discrimination
On 28 August 2026, in a public administration office (urząd) in Warsaw, a Ukrainian woman who was waiting in the queue with her infant was pushed back in favour of…
● Insult
On or around 26 August 2026, in the municipality of Wąchock (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship), an unknown person painted the word "UPA" on a parked car, damaging the vehicle's paintwork. "UPA" stands…
● Physical attack
On 26 August 2026 at around 11:05 a.m. a man attacked a foreign passenger on tram line 7 in Poznań, between the Żeromskiego and Rondo Nowaka-Jeziorańskiego stops. The attacker, a…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 25 August 2026 a 41-year-old Polish woman attacked a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl on Plac Sikorskiego in the centre of Siedlce. The woman had been sitting on…
● Physical attack
On 25 August 2026 in Wrocław, a 66-year-old taxi driver, a citizen of Belarus, was attacked by a passenger during a ride. According to Wrocław police, the 23-year-old passenger heard…
● Discrimination
In August 2026, in a hospital in Warsaw, a few-month-old Ukrainian infant was admitted at night in critical condition with suspected urosepsis, a systemic infection that is rapidly fatal in…
● Discrimination
On 24 August 2026 in Warsaw, a Russian-speaking foreign woman went to an appointment at a LuxMed private medical centre. She had been referred to the specialist by her internist…
● Insult
On the evening of Sunday 23 August 2026, in a restaurant in Częstochowa (Śląskie voivodeship), a 50-year-old resident of the city insulted a 21-year-old Ukrainian woman during a conversation, using…
● Physical attack
On the night of 22–23 August 2026, shortly after 1 a.m., four men attacked a man on Towarowa Street in central Poznań. Video recorded by a resident from a window…
● Physical attack
On or around 23 August 2026, on a street in Warsaw, two Polish women attacked two young men outside a shop after identifying them as Ukrainians. In the video filmed…
● Insult
On 23 August 2026 in Sosnowiec (Śląskie), a Ukrainian woman was walking home from a playground with her small son when they passed a man standing in the street. The…
● Discrimination
On or around 23 August 2026, in central Warsaw (Śródmieście), a Belarusian-Polish man, his wife and two friends visiting from Belarus took shelter from the rain under the awning of…
● Physical attack
On Saturday 22 August 2026, after 8 p.m., in the Cytadela park in Poznan, a drunk man shouted anti-Ukrainian slogans at a woman who was walking there with her child.…
● Insult
On the evening of 22 August 2026, in Warsaw's Mokotów district, a foreign woman was walking home while talking on the phone. A man carrying a camera and a beer…
● Physical attack
On 22 August 2026 a Polish woman verbally and physically attacked Ukrainian women in the toilets of the Kino Atlantic cinema in central Warsaw (Śródmieście). According to the account of…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 21 August 2026, a Ukrainian woman was walking to the Kino Femina cinema in central Warsaw (Śródmieście) while quietly talking on the phone. As she passed…
● Insult
In Wroclaw, a young Ukrainian woman was verbally abused in the street by a Polish woman, who called her "a cretin from Ukraine" ("kretynka z Ukrainy"). The victim filmed herself…
● Physical attack
In Gdańsk, a 29-year-old Polish man named Jan was attacked in a railway tunnel in the Orunia district after a stranger assumed he was Ukrainian. Jan was walking with his…
● Discrimination
In Wrocław, a Ukrainian hair stylist was refused a place to rent in a hair salon because of her nationality. She was looking for a new spot to rent for…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 18 August 2026 in Warsaw, a Ukrainian family who had driven to a shop for groceries were attacked in the car park by two drunk Polish…
● Insult
A Ukrainian family travelling from Warsaw to Halifax via Zurich, on LOT Polish Airlines and Edelweiss Air flights, found their checked suitcase deliberately vandalised after it had been handed over…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 15 August 2026, at around 22:00, a Belarusian man named Siarhei and his wife were attacked in Warsaw while walking their dog near their home. According…
● Discrimination
A Ukrainian woman working in a Żabka store described a confrontation with a male construction worker who became aggressive after she refused to prepare his pizza before he paid. He…
● Physical attack
On 14 August 2026, in a park next to the railway station in Bydgoszcz, two Ukrainian children — a 14-year-old girl and her 12-year-old brother — were attacked by an…
● Physical attack
On the night of 12–13 August 2026, at around 00:20, two women attacked Ukrainian men sitting in the outdoor garden of a bar on Półwiejska Street in the centre of…
● Physical attack
According to an account published by the girl's mother, a Ukrainian teenage girl lost two front teeth after being punched in the face in a park in Warsaw. The girl,…
● Discrimination
A Ukrainian woman living and working in Poland said that her employer told staff they should limit speaking Ukrainian among themselves at work and switch to Polish whenever Polish colleagues…
● Physical attack
For four consecutive days, a Ukrainian man living in Warsaw was followed, confronted and harassed by a Polish neighbor. In footage he filmed on 12 August 2026 in a residential…
● Insult
In Piekary Śląskie, a Ukrainian woman who works as a shop cashier described a friendly conversation with an elderly female customer and the customer's granddaughter, during which the customer mentioned…
● Insult
A man got into a taxi in Poland and, from the very start, insisted he was the passenger who had booked the ride, calling himself "Pan Tomasz." The driver, a…
● Insult
A photograph taken inside a taxi in Warsaw shows a xenophobic notice aimed at Ukrainian-speaking passengers. A sheet of paper was hung on the back of the front seat, facing…