Poland’s embassy in Ukraine has sent a letter to head of Ukraine’s State Public Broadcasting Company (UA:PBC) Zurab Alasania expressing its outrage in connection with a program aired about Organization of Ukrainian Nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.
A letter from Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Bartosz Cichocki on Monday was posted to the Facebook page of the embassy.
“The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine expresses its deep indignation at the form, as well as the content of the program of Oleksandr Zinchenko, titled ‘Declassified history. Passion for Bandera,’ broadcast on UA:Pershy on April 6,” the document says.
The letter stated that the mission of the media, in particular, is “to preserve objectivity, factual accounts and strict observance of the iron rules of journalism.” But, according to the embassy, Zinchenko’s program was a “caricature of this mission.”
The letter said the “discussion” in the studio with the participation of four guests – Bandera supporters – appeared as if “it was planned unprofessionally in advance.”
