Cases
● Physical attack
A 63-year-old Polish man was detained after threatening his Ukrainian neighbor with a telescopic baton and repeatedly insulting him because of his nationality. The incident occurred while the Ukrainian man…
● Insult
Two intoxicated Polish men verbally abused a passenger on a train at Zielonka station near Warsaw while shouting xenophobic insults targeting Ukrainians and Belarusians. The incident escalated into a fight…
● Physical attack
A video circulated on social media showing a passerby physically attacking a Ukrainian streamer during a live street broadcast in Poland. The attacker struck the streamer directly in front of…
● Physical attack
According to statements published by the victim's mother on Threads and later in an interview with Slawa TV, a young Ukrainian couple, Anastasia and Maksym, were brutally assaulted near a…
● Insult
A Polish supervisor at a construction site near Skawina verbally abused a Ukrainian worker with xenophobic slurs, telling him to 'go to the front' and shouting insults including 'Banderite' and…
● Insult
On 21 July 2026 a man travelling on Warsaw city bus line 197 verbally attacked a group of teenagers after hearing them speak Ukrainian. In the recording made by another…
● Insult
Two Ukrainian women travelling with a child on Warsaw bus line 162 were verbally abused by a female passenger after she heard them speaking Ukrainian. The woman claimed that Ukrainians…
● Physical attack
A Ukrainian couple reported that someone fired at the window of their apartment while they were inside. The projectile damaged the outer layer of the window, and the victim said…
● Insult
A woman approached a group of six Ukrainian teenagers aged 13–14 who were speaking Ukrainian among themselves and told them: 'In Poland, speak Polish.' One of the girls apologized to…
● Discrimination
A video published by NEXTA showed the vandalized car of a Ukrainian woman living in Warsaw. The vehicle had been covered with xenophobic and vulgar graffiti targeting Ukrainians, including slogans…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman reported that on the evening of 18 July 2026, while speaking Ukrainian with a colleague outside her hotel in Gdynia, a group of Polish men began loudly…
● Physical attack
According to the family's account, on the evening of 18 July 2026 a group of six Ukrainian teenagers aged 13–14 were confronted by an adult woman while speaking Ukrainian near…
● Physical attack
A group of 3–4 intoxicated young men verbally abused a teenage Ukrainian boy on a tram in Poznań. As the boy was leaving the tram, one of the men struck…
● Insult
A Ukrainian man named Arsen said that while training at a gym in Poznań, he was confronted by a Polish man, later identified by media reports as MMA fighter Piotr…
● Physical attack
On 16 July 2026 in Kraków, a group of men attacked a company of young people after hearing them speak Ukrainian. According to a Ukrainian woman who was there and…
● Discrimination
A customer called the Rower Express bicycle and scooter store in Warsaw and, after hearing the employee's Ukrainian accent, said he did not want to buy from 'Ukrainians' and asked…
● Insult
On 12 July, an adult Polish man verbally abused Ukrainian girls, reportedly aged 12, on a city bus after hearing them speak Ukrainian. According to witnesses and video recordings, he…
● Physical attack
An unidentified man entered the "LAS RĄK" handmade shop in Warsaw and vandalized the interior, destroying part of its handmade products. The case was reported to the police, who are…
● Physical attack
A 19-year-old Ukrainian man was attacked by a group of around a dozen young people after they heard him speaking Ukrainian on the phone with his parents, at Wyspa Słodowa.…
● Insult
A local man approached a Ukrainian man near Wawel in Kraków and told him to return to Ukraine because his country needed him to fight in the war. He repeatedly…
● Discrimination
A group of Polish right-wing activists went to the office of a Ukrainian woman who runs a business assisting foreigners with legalization procedures. The activists, reportedly including two people linked…
● Insult
On 2 July 2026 in Zawada, a village in the Myślenice county, the owner of a commercial fishing pond called "Rybka" insulted a 16-year-old boy from Ukraine and his mother…
● Physical attack
A customer bought alcohol in a shop in Wrocław, then drank beer outside the entrance. After a Ukrainian shop assistant asked him to stop drinking in a public place, the…
● Police raid
More than 600 police officers carried out a one-day operation across Warsaw, nearby districts, and other cities, searching nearly 700 apartments, houses, and hostels. The operation resulted in the arrest…
● Physical attack
A Ukrainian woman was attacked by a Polish man while walking across the Dąbrowa bridge in Łódź. According to her, the man sexually assaulted her by grabbing her breasts and…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman reported that while she was standing at Warszawa Zachodnia, a group of Polish people approached her after realizing she was Ukrainian and began verbally abusing her. She…
● Physical attack
A 15-year-old Ukrainian boy was physically attacked on a city bus in Płock after speaking Ukrainian with his friend. According to the victim, an adult man told them, 'In Poland…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 27 June, a confrontation occurred at Lubianka Reservoir in Starachowice involving Polish citizens and a group of Ukrainian citizens. Initial police statements treated the incident as…
● Physical attack
In late June 2026, a 15-year-old Ukrainian boy was beaten at the Stawy Stefanskiego bathing area in Lodz. According to the police, a verbal exchange first broke out between two…
● Insult
A Polish man threatened and verbally abused a Ukrainian cashier in a Żabka store, using insults and threats motivated by her nationality. A video of the incident spread on social…
● Discrimination
A Ukrainian woman working as a shop assistant in a Żabka store in Gdańsk reported repeated xenophobic abuse from customers because of her Ukrainian origin and accent. She said that…
● Insult
On 23 June 2026 a 15-year-old boy from Ukraine drowned at the Glinianki bathing area in Zielonka near Warsaw. In the following days his death was welcomed by part of…
● Physical attack
On the evening of Saturday, 20 June 2026, a social gathering of Poles and Ukrainians was held in a recreational garden area in Gliwice. A 46-year-old Polish man, a participant…
● Physical attack
A 14-year-old Ukrainian boy was assaulted in Warsaw on 20 June after a dispute at a bus stop. The incident began when another boy demanded that he perform tricks on…
● Physical attack
On 20 June in the Bródno district of Warsaw, a 44-year-old Ukrainian taxi driver was attacked while completing a ride on Wysockiego Street. After he dropped off female passengers, a…
● Physical attack
A 14-year-old Ukrainian boy was attacked on a playground in Gdańsk on 14 June 2026 after speaking Ukrainian with his friends. According to the family's account, a woman approached him,…
● Physical attack
Two men set fire to the Mur Mur restaurant in Warsaw during the night of 14-15 June. According to the owner, the attackers arrived around 4:00 a.m. wearing hoods and…
● Physical attack
On the night of 13 June 2026, on the beach at ul. Zdrojowa in the Brzeźno district of Gdańsk, a 19-year-old Ukrainian woman played a Ukrainian song on her phone…
● Physical attack
On the night of 13 June 2026, on the beach near ul. Zdrojowa in the Brzeźno district of Gdańsk, a 19-year-old Ukrainian woman played a Ukrainian song on her phone…
● Discrimination
On 9 June 2026, at the Hrebenne border crossing, Border Guard officers refused entry to Poland to refugees from Ukraine of Roma origin. Two families were turned back: a mother…
● Insult
A conflict occurred in a bakery between a customer and a substitute employee over a pre-order that had not been properly communicated between staff. According to the employee, the customer…
● Physical attack
In central Warsaw, a conflict occurred during a street performance by Ukrainian musicians when a passerby reacted aggressively. According to witnesses, he shouted offensive remarks targeting the performers because of…
● Physical attack
On 24 May 2026, at a playground on Staffa street in Warsaw, an unidentified man attacked an 11-year-old boy from Ukraine. The boy's mother published an account of the incident…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman who has lived in Poland since 2016 said she and her two-year-old son were threatened by a Polish neighbor in the entrance to their apartment building in…
● Insult
The incident occurred on May 20 at around 5:26 PM on tram number 2 in Poznań. A drunk Polish man heard a Ukrainian woman speaking on the phone in Ukrainian.…
● Insult
A man in a Polish settlement verbally attacked a group of Ukrainian citizens who were peacefully staying at their place of residence. He shouted aggressive, vulgar and offensive statements targeting…
● Insult
A video circulating on social media shows a security guard at the Fort Wola shopping center in Warsaw aggressively confronting two young Ukrainian men, hurling nationalist insults at them and…
● Physical attack
On the evening of May 8th, in Radom, four men aged 30-40 approached a 20-year-old Ukrainian and asked for a cigarette. Upon hearing his Polish accent, they demanded he sing…
● Physical attack
On the evening of May 7th, a group of around ten Polish youths violently attacked a group of Ukrainian teenagers near the Świętokrzyski Bridge in Warsaw. The attackers, who initially…
● Physical attack
In Olsztyn, a 14-year-old Ukrainian boy was violently attacked by a group of adult men after a minor dispute in a park. The incident began when the victim's 12-year-old brother…
● Physical attack
On 3 May 2026 in Sosnowiec, 44-year-old Krzysztof B., a resident of the city, used violence against a 12-year-old boy from Ukraine. "The man hit the teenager in the head,…
● Insult
On April 27, in a Żabka store on Rembertowska Street in Poznań, a 34-year-old local man dressed as a priest verbally abused a Ukrainian woman working there. Another Ukrainian bystander…
● Insult
On the evening of 21 April, a woman previously detained after an attack on two Ukrainian women was reportedly involved in another confrontation on Garbary Street in Poznań. She approached…
● Insult
In Brzeg, a Ukrainian woman with her two children aged 3 and 4 was approached by two women who shouted phrases such as 'go to the front' and 'shut your…
● Physical attack
A passenger attempted to strike a taxi driver, and shouted "Fuck Ukraine" and "Fuck Ukrainians." He then attacked a police officer.
● Physical attack
On 7 April 2026 in Raciąż two men attacked a 16-year-old boy from Ukraine. As the police statement of the District Police Headquarters in Płońsk described it: "The findings show…
● Physical attack
On the evening of April 4th, around 11:00 PM, near the Imperial Castle in Poznań, a Polish woman attacked two Ukrainian girls aged approximately 14–15 years old. A bystander named…
● Insult
On 24 March 2026 in Aleje Politechniki in Łódź, a man riding an electric scooter hurled xenophobic abuse at a woman from Ukraine who was walking with a child on…
● Physical attack
A 20-year-old Ukrainian man experiencing homelessness was brutally attacked at Pasaż Wiecha in central Warsaw. The assault was captured on surveillance footage, which showed a man approaching the victim and…
● Physical attack
On March 16, 2026, around 18:00 in Warsaw, a conflict occurred on tram line 22 on Aleje Jerozolimskie near the Krucza 05 stop between a 28-year-old Polish man and a…