Cases
● 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…
● 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…
● 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
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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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 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…
● 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.…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● Physical attack
At around 00:25, a group of intoxicated young Polish men attacked a Ukrainian man who was simply walking by while speaking Ukrainian on the phone. According to an eyewitness, the…
● Discrimination
A Ukrainian woman, Elena Bahinska, reported that after a Polish driver crashed into her car, police did not issue him a fine and instead allegedly tried to make her responsible…
● Insult
On 6 August 2026 in Warsaw, Diana, a 30-year-old woman born in Ukraine who has lived in Poland for over ten years and holds Polish citizenship, called an ambulance because…
● Discrimination
The Ukrainian Gremi Borsch Fest was cancelled in Warsaw after its organizers reportedly spent six months unsuccessfully seeking a venue. Both private venue owners and the city authorities refused to…
● Physical attack
On 5 August, a man confronted two Ukrainians on Polonijna Street in Kraków, shouting and making threats. He chased a Ukrainian man, then struck a Ukrainian woman who was simply…
● Insult
A drunk woman came onto Gagarina Street in Wrocław carrying two knives, threatened random passers-by and shouted insults targeting Ukrainians. Police were called to the scene and detained the woman.
● Physical attack
On the afternoon of August 3, 2026, around 16:00, three teenage boys, believed to be about 16 years old, followed a 14-year-old Ukrainian boy near a shopping center in Warsaw's…
● Physical attack
On the morning of 2 August 2026, on Malczewskiego Street in Radom, three 20-year-old Ukrainian citizens were beaten by a group of eight men. According to the head of the…
● Physical attack
A cyclist riding outside the designated bicycle lane hit a Ukrainian woman and another pedestrian near Kondratowicza metro station. After the woman objected to the cyclist's riding, the cyclist became…
● Insult
On 1 August 2026, on a bus running from an airport to a railway station in Poland, two men boarded and were followed onto the bus by a Ukrainian man.…
● Insult
For about six months, up to August 2026, a 20-year-old Ukrainian citizen living in the Olesno county (powiat oleski, Opole voivodeship) was repeatedly insulted and threatened because of his nationality.…
● Insult
On the evening of 1 August 2026, a man verbally attacked Ukrainians at the Warszawa Śródmieście railway station in central Warsaw. According to witnesses who filmed the incident, he shouted…
● Detention for deportation
On 1 and 3 August, Poland deported two Ukrainian citizens to Ukraine after police and Border Guard checks. One had a final conviction for drunk driving and was already listed…
● Physical attack
A 37-year-old man attacked a Polish father and son at an allotment garden on Modra Street in Gdańsk while heavily intoxicated (over 1.5‰ alcohol). During the attack, he shouted nationalist…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 1 August in Kożuchów, three Ukrainian citizens were attacked near a hostel where they lived. According to the victims, a passerby first confronted them over music…
● Physical attack
On or around 31 July 2026, on Gdanska Street in the centre of Bydgoszcz, a middle-aged Polish man attacked a Ukrainian woman in the street. Video recorded by the woman…
● Insult
Two Ukrainian women were speaking Ukrainian to each other in a Gdańsk park when a man became aggressive because they were speaking Ukrainian. In the recorded exchange, he repeatedly swore…
● Physical attack
A 35-year-old Ukrainian Bolt taxi driver was physically attacked by a 48-year-old female passenger in Częstochowa after he refused to make an unscheduled stop during the ride. The woman shouted…
● Physical attack
A 40-year-old Ukrainian woman was attacked at about 15:30 on 30 July 2026 while walking home from work on Żelazna Street in Gdynia's Pogórze district. She had stopped to record…
● Insult
A Ukrainian bus driver reported that, after 10 years of working in Poland, he was for the first time called a 'banderowiec' by a drunken self-described 'patriot of Poland' while…
● Physical attack
A man in Rumia attacked a passerby after hearing him speak with a foreign accent. According to investigators, the attacker used a sharp object, but the victim managed to shield…
● Discrimination
A veterinary clinic employee refused to issue a pet passport for a Ukrainian woman's cat and told her to 'go back to your own country' to obtain the document. When…
● Physical attack
Two Ukrainian women waiting for their flight at Kraków Airport were targeted by a local man who shouted xenophobic insults, including calling them 'Ukrainian prostitutes'. When the women tried to…
● Insult
A video filmed in Wrocław shows a loud confrontation in which a man hurls vulgar anti-Ukrainian abuse at Ukrainian-speaking people. On the recording he shouts about the police and threatens…
● Insult
In a video published by Ukrainian blogger a Polish woman speaking Polish to an audience calls on Poles to use the police as a tool against Ukrainians living in Poland.…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman reported a confrontation with a Polish driver after the driver failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing where the woman and children were waiting. After the woman…