Cases
● 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
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…
● Insult
An anti-Ukrainian banner was hung overnight in Owińska displaying a crossed-out Ukrainian flag and the message: 'End of hospitality, ungrateful sons of bitches.' Passers-by reported it to police at around…
● Physical attack
A man attacked a passerby who was talking on the phone, striking him twice in the head without prior interaction. During the assault, the attacker shouted insults and said that…
● Insult
A Belarusian-born owner of a flower shop in Gdańsk said that two customers verbally abused her after one of them claimed the business was 'Ukrainian' and urged another customer not…
● Physical attack
A Belarusian man, Valentin, reported that he was punched in the face without warning by an unknown man while waiting for a taxi at night in central Warsaw. The attacker…
● Physical attack
According to reports posted in the Telegram chat 'Belarusians of Warsaw', a Belarusian man was attacked after asking a woman not to smoke near him at Aleja Solidarności 83/84. The…
● Detention for deportation
On 7 July 2026, officers of the Polish Border Guard and Police detained six foreign nationals after they crossed the Polish-Lithuanian border on foot at an unauthorized location in the…
● 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…
● 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 Belarusian man living in the Podhale region stopped in Ostrowsko to let his dog cool off in a stream. Three local men approached him, became hostile after noticing his…
● 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…
● Insult
A migrant woman said she was verbally abused by an elderly customer while shopping in an Hebe store in Poland. The confrontation began after the woman answered a phone call…
● 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…
● Physical attack
During the night after an event at the Tropicana venue in Mielec, a group of about ten men attacked six foreign nationals from Latin America. The victims, who were legally…
● 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 37-year-old U.S. citizen was brutally attacked on a tram near Plac Unii Lubelskiej in Warsaw. The victim had boarded the tram with friends and was talking loudly when another…
● Discrimination
A group of four men wearing clothing resembling law-enforcement uniforms was seen in central Warsaw approaching foreigners near the Central Railway Station and claiming to check whether they were legally…
● 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…