Poland’s chargé d’affaires in Ukraine, Piotr Łukasiewicz, delivered a scandalous speech during commemorations of “Bloody Sunday” in the Ukrainian town of Olyka, in which he spoke about Ukrainian victims of the Polish state and the need to “forgive and ask for forgiveness.” TV Republika has now revealed that Łukasiewicz spent many years working for the Military Information Services.
The speech delivered by Poland’s chargé d’affaires in Ukraine, Piotr Łukasiewicz, during commemorations marking the anniversary of the Volhynia massacre sparked a political storm. While paying tribute to the Polish victims of Volhynia, the head of Poland’s diplomatic mission in Kyiv also spoke about Ukrainian victims of the Polish state and the need to “forgive and ask for forgiveness.” His remarks drew fierce criticism.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski came to his defence.
“Colonel Łukasiewicz, who is risking his life for his homeland under Russian bombs, spoke in the Christian spirit of ‘We forgive and ask for forgiveness,’”
Sikorski wrote on social media.
Piotr Łukasiewicz is, in fact, a reserve colonel in the Polish Armed Forces. He also holds a doctorate in political science, with Roman Kuźniar among his academic supervisors.
Since the mid-1990s, he reportedly dealt with “matters related to state security.” During the first decade of the 21st century, he took part in stabilisation missions in Iraq and served as a military attaché in Afghanistan. He later became the Polish Defence Ministry’s special representative for Afghanistan. In 2012, he completed his military service and became Poland’s ambassador to Afghanistan.
In 2019, he ran for the European Parliament on behalf of Robert Biedroń’s Spring party.
However, Michał Rachoń’s programme on TV Republika revealed another chapter in Piotr Łukasiewicz’s career: his many years of service in the Military Information Services (WSI). According to the documents disclosed, Łukasiewicz completed an advanced specialist course at the WSI Training Centre with a grade of very good.
“One could say that the colonel was a very good WSI officer. The fact that there are people with experience in the WSI within Polish state institutions is nothing new. But it is striking that, in 2026, whenever scandalous actions emerge in the public sphere that clearly run counter to the interests of the Polish state and nation, and we begin to dig deeper, either things like this come to light or other facts emerge pointing to links with the communist deep state,”
Michał Rachoń commented.