Cases
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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.
● 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…
● Detention for deportation
On April 4, police in Toruń detained a 25-year-old Zimbabwean man who was walking naked across the Józef Piłsudski Bridge. He was heavily intoxicated but non-aggressive. Officers subsequently discovered that…
● 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
A Belarusian taxi driver named Siarhei was verbally attacked by a passenger in Białystok, in the early hours of April 2nd, 2026. After a calm ride, the passenger turned aggressive…
● Physical attack
A woman hit a person twice and said "I hate Ukrainians" on a Warsaw city bus for no apparent reason, as the person was silent and not talking to anyone.…
● Discrimination
A planned asylum center called "Bezpieczna Przystań" in Jahránka near Warsaw has been cancelled following overwhelming local opposition. The facility was intended to house women and mothers with children seeking…
● Discrimination
The report on PolsatNews describes cases of abuse and exploitation of foreign workers in Poland, including physical violence, psychological pressure, and working 12–16 hours per day without proper contracts or…
● 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…
● Police raid
Police, Border Guard and tax authorities carried out a large-scale operation at Warsaw's Bakalarska Market in the Włochy district and the Różycki Bazaar, sealing off the markets, checking everyone inside,…
● Labour raid
Border Guard officers from Częstochowa conducted a legality check on 80 foreign nationals working at a company in Tarnogórski County. Of these, 12 individuals could not demonstrate legal residence and…
● Discrimination
A Belarusian woman named Polina was denied entry to a yoga studio in Białystok after she registered online for a class. When she arrived for her first session, staff told…
● 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…
● 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…
● Police raid
On February 22, Polish border guards and police inspected six hostels in Warsaw, identifying six foreigners residing illegally in the country. One Georgian was listed in the EU as an…
● 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…
● 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…
● Detention for deportation
A 38-year-old Belarusian volunteer named Siarhiej, who had been helping Ukrainians through the organization Kwitnący Dom, was detained in Warsaw on October 19, 2025, due to an expired residence permit.…
● 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
A 55-year-old man in Gdańsk became aggressive after being refused the sale of alcohol past 10 p.m. at a local store. He argued with the cashier, shouted at other customers,…
● 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.…