Cases
● 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
On 10 July 2026, in a tram in Wrocław, one of the passengers hurled racist abuse at an Egyptian man travelling with his wife and child. The attacker got off…
● 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
On 3 July 2026 the local Łódź edition of "Gazeta Wyborcza" described a racist incident in one of the city parks. In June someone secretly filmed dark-skinned women and children…
● 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 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…
● 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
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…
● 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…
● Detention for deportation
During the weekend of 12-13 June 2026, officers of the Polish Border Guard detained 45 foreign nationals who had crossed the Polish-Lithuanian border illegally outside designated border-control points. The migrants,…
● Physical attack
A taxi driver from Azerbaijan, who has been living legally in Poland for four years, was attacked near Warsaw's Gdański Railway Station after an unidentified man ran up to his…
● 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…
● Detention for deportation
Polish police detained 21 migrants who had crossed the Lithuanian-Polish border near the village of Widugiery in the Puńsk municipality. The group consisted of 20 men and one woman from…
● 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…
● Labour raid
Polish Border Guard officers from the Warsaw-Modlin post detained 16 foreign nationals during two residency-legality inspections carried out over the past week. The detainees — 10 Nepalese citizens and 6…
● 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…
● Discrimination
Far-right politicians have ignited a political scandal in Lublin over African students after Krzysztof Bosak, co-leader of the Confederation party and deputy speaker of parliament, criticized promotional videos for the…
● 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
A video posted from Stalowa Wola shows a confrontation between residents in which a person makes xenophobic remarks referring to a Georgian person. During the argument about parking, noise and…
● 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…
● Discrimination
A Threads user @oscarbarsuk reported that on 13 May at the PKO Rotunda branch in Warsaw, a bank employee named Wiktoria W. refused to update her residence card details (the…
● 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 21 April 2026, in a residential street in Poznan, a Polish man walked up to the gate of the house where a Ukrainian man lives and shouted xenophobic abuse…
● 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.
● Detention for deportation
Poland’s Border Guard deported three of nine Afghan men to Kabul on 10 April 2026, even though the European Court of Human Rights had issued binding interim measures to stop…
● Detention for deportation
Polish authorities planned a deportation of Afghan nationals to Kabul for April 10–12, 2026, despite warnings from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) that Afghanistan remains deeply unsafe — marked by…