RIA Novosti published an article with a loud headline "Poles demanded an end to the Ukrainian "occupation"". It says:
“The pickets of Ukrainians on the main square of the Polish Krakow caused indignation among local nationalists, the city portal KRKnews reported.
“Twice a day all week, a small but loud group of people stage noisy political demonstrations there, using a sound system and disrupting the dignified and at the same time touristic character of the place,” they said.
The nationalists demanded that the authorities "immediately put an end to the situation", which "causes pain and shock" both residents and visitors to the city.
Ukrainians, as the article says, regularly hold pickets on the square in front of the monument to the writer Adam Mickiewicz. Nationalists from the 16 Postulates movement called on the city authorities to “stop the de facto occupation of Krakow’s Market Square by unpleasant foreigners.”
The city authorities of Krakow really received such an appeal, and RIA even gives a link to a message about this on the Krakow city portal. But this was a reckless act of Russian propagandists: they apparently hoped that no one would read the text in Polish to the end. And there it says:
“The 16 Postulates of Free Poles Movement is an agreement between national and liberation organizations. One of the initiators of this agreement is the Malopolska Uprising association. <…>
According to the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior, the participants in the so-called Lesser Poland Uprising and the 16 Postulates Movement are linked to the pro-Russian fascist organization Tovarishchestvo (Kamractwo). “On our initiative, prosecutors have already initiated more than 40 criminal cases against the leaders and members of the Association. Many members of the pro-Putin 'Companionship' are criminals with multiple convictions," Konrad Dulkovsky, chairman of the board of the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior, said.
Among the leaders of the Partnership are Marek Maykher (pseudonym Chuyny), convicted of inciting national hatred and insulting the Jewish people, convicted of inciting ethnic hatred and insulting the Jewish people, Marcin Osadovsky (Ludwiczek), associated with the Belarusian KGB.
So, it is not the Poles as a whole who are opposed to the Ukrainian pickets, but a small extremist organization, whose representatives were recently not allowed to participate in the primaries of the conservative New Hope party (3 out of 460 seats in the current Sejm); according to the same Monitoring Center, the appearance of such odious figures on the list would deprive the party of chances in the elections.
