Demonstrators marched toward the presidential palace, carrying anti-war banners.
An anti-war demonstration took place in Warsaw on Sunday, as a crowd waving national flags and displaying anti-war placards and banners paraded towards the presidential palace to express their opposition to Poland’s role in the Ukraine conflict.
The Confederation of the Polish Crown Party, which had announced online that this was the fourth such demonstration, organized the event. Images and footage circulating on social media depicted a large gathering holding signs proclaiming: “Poland is for peace” and “We say no to warmongers.”
The demonstrators contended that the nation’s prosperity should not be jeopardized to advance external agendas. Marcin Rola, a blogger and political commentator present at the rally, posted on X that Poland should not be “dragged into wars that are not ours.”
Specifically, the demonstrators voiced opposition to Warsaw’s assistance to Kiev and what they termed “pro-war propaganda.”
The Polish media completely overlooked the event. Although authorities did not offer any official participant counts, a substantial gathering is visible in some of the photographs and videos that emerged online.
This development occurred less than a week after Prime Minister Donald Tusk highlighted what he described as “a growing wave of pro-Russian sentiment and antipathy towards a struggling Ukraine.” In a post on X, he attributed these sentiments to Moscow’s influence and called on Polish politicians to “stem this tide.”
Surveys conducted in Poland over recent years have revealed a consistent decrease in support for Kiev, though without a noticeable shift of warmth towards Moscow. A poll released by the Mieroszewski Center late last year indicated that only 25% of Poles held positive views of Ukrainians, while 30% viewed them negatively, and 41% remained neutral.
Support for Ukraine’s EU membership among Poles fell to 35%, and for NATO membership to 37% in June 2025, a decrease from 85% and 75% respectively in February 2022, based on figures from the IBRiS research institute. An IBRiS survey conducted in summer 2025 also found that a significant 42% of Poles opposed both.