Cases
● Physical attack
On 13 March 2026, at Primary School No. 12 in Olsztyn, one of the pupils behaved aggressively towards a boy from Ukraine. During a lesson he hit him in the…
● Insult
A passenger on a train was verbally attacked after speaking Ukrainian. According to a video posted online, another passenger first confronted a woman at the bar area and then turned…
● Police raid
On March 2–3, 2026, a nationwide operation to detain wanted persons was carried out in Poland, coordinated by the Criminal Bureau of the National Police Headquarters. A total of 26,496…
● Physical attack
Two Ukrainian nationals, Ivan S. and Vasyl H., were attacked with a machete on the evening of February 19, 2026, at a residential property in Przasnysz. The attackers, Mateusz P.…
● Insult
The incident occurred on the night of 17–18 February in a residential building on 1 Maja Street in Szczecin. A 19-year-old and a 15-year-old were involved in the attack. They…
● Physical attack
On February 14 in Warsaw’s district Praga-Północ, a group of five men attacked a Ukrainian citizen after hearing his accent. The attackers were carrying telescopic batons, pepper spray, and objects…
● Physical attack
A 27-year-old pregnant Ukrainian woman, Anastasiya, and her husband were attacked by a taxi driver in central Warsaw on February 12, 2026, near plac Grzybowski. The driver shouted xenophobic remarks…
● Insult
A man speaking Polish has been insulting a Ukrainian in Poznań.
● Physical attack
Late in the evening of February 7, an attack on two Ukrainian women occurred on a street in Pruszków. According to initial reports, the incident involved an aggressive group linked…
● Physical attack
During a bus trip from Poland to Germany, a conflict arose between a group of Polish passengers and a Ukrainian citizen, which escalated into a physical altercation. “Get back to…
● Insult
On 20 December 2025 the Przegląd Sportowy Onet portal published an article about the peer violence experienced by the 15-year-old daughter of Jurij Gladyr, a volleyball player of the Aluron…
● Physical attack
On the evening of December 19, 2025, a 41-year-old Ukrainian man, Jurij L., was attacked by a group of unidentified young men outside a residential block in Radom. Earlier that…
● Insult
After the death of an 11-year-old girl who was attacked with a knife in Jelenia Góra on 15 December 2025, the tragedy was used as a pretext for a disinformation…
● Physical attack
On 11 December 2025 in a tram in Poznań, two 27-year-old men carried out verbal and physical violence against a passenger who was speaking Ukrainian. The victim was a citizen…
● Physical attack
On 25 October 2025, in a grocery shop at the Market Square in Kazimierz Dolny, an unidentified man used violence against a pupil from Ukraine attending the Jan Koszczyc Witkiewicz…
● Insult
On 24 October 2025 on Zegrzyńska street in Legionowo, unknown perpetrators committed a xenophobic act of hostility against a family with two children from Ukraine. Someone placed in the family's…
● Insult
On 2 October 2025, during a physical education lesson at Primary School No. 37 named after Karol Grzesik in Chorzów, a seventh-grade pupil verbally abused a classmate from Ukraine. In…
● Police raid
Police and the Border Guard launched a series of large-scale inspections targeting foreigners in Poznań, including checks at worker hostels and buses transporting mainly foreign employees. During the first operation,…
● Physical attack
A trial has begun in Wrocław against Małgorzata C. and her partner Dawid Ł., who are accused of attacking 17-year-old Aliona K., a Ukrainian cashier working at a Żabka store…
● Detention for deportation
A 42-year-old Ukrainian train driver was detained after operating a Kyiv–Chełm passenger train under the influence of alcohol. The situation was reported by customs officers who noticed signs of intoxication…
● Physical attack
Two Ukrainian women, Wira and Valentyna, were attacked by a neighbor in the courtyard of their residential complex. The man, estimated to be about 50 years old, verbally abused them…
● Physical attack
After shopping at a Biedronka supermarket, a Ukrainian couple was attacked while loading groceries into their car. A drunk man approached them, asked where they were from, and upon hearing…
● Insult
During a stop of a Ukraine–Estonia bus at a gas station, a Polish man began verbally harassing Ukrainian women. A Latvian passenger stepped in to defend them, which led to…
● Physical attack
In a bus on line 190, a 38-year-old man verbally abused Ukrainian passengers with xenophobic slurs and physically attacked 51-year-old activist Zenobia Żaczek, causing injuries. He was later arrested at…
● Insult
During a roadside intervention in Gdańsk, two plainclothes police officers verbally abused a foreign driver, using xenophobic and offensive language. A recording of the incident circulated on social media, showing…
● Insult
A group of young people attacked a taxi driven by a Ukrainian migrant. During the incident, the attackers voiced xenophobic remarks, expressing resentment about him working in Poland.
● Detention for deportation
A 21-year-old Ukrainian citizen and a 17-year-old Belarusian girl were detained for flying a drone over government buildings near Belweder, an area under a no-fly zone. The Ukrainian man was…
● Insult
City councilor Sylwia Cisoń (Civic Coalition) verbally attacked a taxi driver with xenophobic insults, telling him to "go back to your country," despite him speaking fluent Polish and remaining calm.…
● Detention for deportation
A 42-year-old Ukrainian citizen was detained after repeated minor offenses, mostly petty thefts of alcohol. Police reported that between January and September 2025, he was involved in eight such incidents.…
● Physical attack
A Ukrainian woman reported that in 2025 she and her husband were physically thrown out of a nightclub in Kraków after a security guard heard her Ukrainian accent. According to…
● Physical attack
Two Ukrainian men and a young woman were attacked near a Żabka store after being verbally abused with xenophobic slurs by a group of four Polish men. When the Ukrainians…
● Insult
In August 2025 the "NIGDY WIĘCEJ" Association was informed that a woman living in Turek behaved aggressively towards Ukrainian children playing on the playground on Kościuszki street. According to the…
● Insult
On 12 August 2025 Adam Wajrak, a journalist and nature conservation activist, reported on Facebook a xenophobic incident he had witnessed in Bydgoszcz. At the beginning of July, on the…
● Physical attack
A Ukrainian woman was attacked in Warsaw’s Praga district by an unidentified man while walking with two Belarusian friends near market stalls. According to her mother, the man accused the…
● Insult
Ukrainian writer and academic Oleksandra Ivaniuk, who has lived in Poland since 2010 and teaches at the University of Warsaw, was traveling by tram near Washington Roundabout with a friend…
● Detention for deportation
Warsaw Border Guard officers deported two Ukrainian nationals following serious legal violations and breaches of residence regulations. One man was handed over by police after being found driving under the…
● Insult
During an open-air yoga session in Ukrainian at Pole Mokotowskie park, three teenage boys disrupted the class after hearing participants speak Ukrainian. They lay on the instructor’s mat, mocked the…
● Physical attack
In mid-July 2025, in front of the Galaxy shopping centre in the centre of Szczecin, two residents of the city attacked a 16-year-old boy from Ukraine. According to the account…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers from the Carpathian unit detained 5 people — a woman from Colombia, two men from Nigeria, a man from Tajikistan, and a man from Ukraine — for…
● Insult
On 4 March 2025, on metro line 2 in Warsaw, on the section from Praga-Północ towards Śródmieście, one of the passengers made vulgar, xenophobic comments. He began his tirade at…
● Insult
On 24 February 2025 on the Market Square in Leszno, a dozen or so men associated with the informal far-right group Patrol Obywatelski Leszno disrupted a ceremony organised on the…
● Physical attack
On the night of 31 December 2024 into 1 January 2025, in Mszczonów (Żyrardów county, Mazovia), a group of young men attacked four Ukrainian citizens. According to the police, the…
● Insult
On the night of 21–22 September 2024, in the Turzyn estate in Szczecin, unknown perpetrators destroyed a mosaic on a wall that promoted good relations between the Polish and Ukrainian…
● Physical attack
On 24 August 2024, near a grocery shop on Pocztowa street in Szczecin, 42-year-old Tomasz A. attacked a family from Ukraine. He heard a father speaking Ukrainian with his small…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman reported that while she was about 6–7 months pregnant in 2024, she was standing quietly on a tram when an unknown woman, estimated to be 50–55 years…
● Physical attack
On 20 November 2023, in a school in Pisarzowice in the Bielsko county, three 13-year-old pupils beat an 11-year-old schoolmate from Ukraine. The attack took place on the school grounds…
● Physical attack
On 21 October 2023 in Piekoszów near Kielce, a 36-year-old resident, Szczepan B., brutally beat a 12-year-old boy, a refugee from Ukraine. When the man saw two Ukrainian boys walking…
● Insult
On 17 October 2023, an advertisement for a T-shirt inciting violence against Ukrainian children appeared on the Instagram profile "kibicowskim_zyciem", run from Kolbuszowa Dolna. The graphic on the shirt showed…
● Insult
In March 2023 the "NIGDY WIĘCEJ" Association was informed about months of harassment suffered by a boy from Ukraine living in the Bródno district of Warsaw. The harassment came from…
● Physical attack
On 7 January 2023, at a tram stop on Królewska street in Lublin, two men attacked a Ukrainian woman, her 13-year-old son and her adult, heavily pregnant daughter. The attack…
● Insult
On 2 September 2022 on Rozłucka street in Warsaw's Praga-Południe district, aggressive men and a woman accompanying them attacked a group of teenagers from Ukraine with vulgar, xenophobic abuse. They…
● Physical attack
On 16 July 2022 on Jagiellońska street in Sosnowiec, an unidentified woman attacked a Ukrainian citizen who was waiting at a bus stop with her three-year-old daughter. The attacker heard…
● Insult
On 9 June 2022, between 4:25 and 4:45 p.m. in Katowice, a man verbally attacked a teenage boy from Ukraine. The aggression began at the Brynów Centrum Przesiadkowe interchange and…
● Insult
In May 2022 a man confronted the staff of a free soup point at Wrocław's main railway station, run by the city's Centre for Refugee Support, which had been set…
● Physical attack
On 12 April 2022 on Solidarity Square (skwer Solidarności) in Częstochowa, a 17-year-old Polish student of a local technical school attacked two 15-year-old girls from Ukraine. She approached them, insulted…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 9 April 2022, at around 8:55 p.m., a man attacked two Ukrainian women on tram line 33 at the Park Olszyna stop in Warsaw. One of…