Cases
● Insult
On 8 August 2026 a passenger witnessed a xenophobic incident on a train in Poland, in the Wroclaw area. A group of girls aged roughly 16 to 20 were sitting…
● Detention for deportation
On 8 August 2026, police launched a large-scale search in fields and forests near Łukowo after two foreign drivers reported that nine other foreigners had allegedly taken their car keys…
● 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…
● Insult
A Polish man aggressively confronted a Black man sitting on a bench and questioned him about where he was from. When the man asked him to speak English, the Polish…
● Insult
An intoxicated man aggressively shouted anti-Ukrainian and xenophobic insults at a woman filming him. He demanded that Ukrainians leave Poland, referred to them with vulgar slurs, accused them of having…
● Insult
A woman reported that a passerby confronted her after her friend's dog barked several times at another dog. Although the dog was leashed and the owners cleaned up after it,…
● 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…
● Insult
A conductor on a Warsaw suburban train prevented a foreign passenger from purchasing a ticket, despite the train still being at the platform, and attempted to issue him a fine.…
● 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 3 August 2026 in Ćmielów (Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship), a Ukrainian citizen was resting on a bench in front of an apartment block when 49-year-old Marcin D. approached him and began…
● 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…
● Insult
In Łódź, an intoxicated Polish man approached a Ukrainian teenager and started a verbal confrontation, criticizing him because of his nationality. The man accused the teenager of not fighting for…
● 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…
● Insult
A Belarusian family living in Białystok for eight years reported that a group of young Polish men approached them while they were returning home from a walk with their 8-year-old…
● 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…
● Insult
A video published on Instagram shows a young woman riding a public bus while an off-camera person shouts xenophobic abuse at her. The audible phrases include 'Gate open' and 'Na…
● 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
A Belarusian woman was attacked near Rondo ONZ in central Warsaw after a passerby heard her speaking with a foreign accent during a phone call. According to her account, the…
● 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…
● 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
Nationalist "citizen patrols" announced a mobilization against a Muslim Women's Council conference scheduled for 16 August at the Muslim Cultural Centre in Warsaw's Ochota district. Members called for a "manual…
● 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
In mid-July 2026, on a street in Poland at night, a heavily intoxicated woman shouted xenophobic anti-Ukrainian abuse at a taxi driver. She repeatedly yelled "Wypierdalaj na Ukrainę!" ("Fuck off…
● 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 Belarusian woman reported that while waiting for a bus with her husband, an unknown man deliberately approached her from behind and repeatedly blew cigarette smoke directly into her face.…
● 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…
● Police raid
Polish Border Guard officers, together with Warsaw traffic police, carried out inspections targeting app-based passenger transport drivers to verify the legality of foreigners' residence and employment. During the checks, they…
● 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 Belarusian citizen was refused a consumer loan application by a Santander bank after asking to continue a verification phone call in English instead of Polish. According to the reported…
● 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…
● Physical attack
A woman from Georgia, approximately 50 years old, was attacked at night on a Warsaw N33 bus after speaking Russian on the phone. According to a witness report, an unknown…
● 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…