This statement is not true. The Warsaw police identified 13 people who engaged in the conflict shown in the video. None of them were Ukrainian citizens.
Some social media users and propaganda Telegram channels spread information that twelve Ukrainian refugees allegedly beat up Poles for refusing to shout “Glory to Ukraine!”. The incident allegedly took place on August 24, Ukrainian Independence Day. The publications are accompanied by a video in which, in the first part, you can see a man repeat the slogan “Glory to Ukraine!” several times, and in the second the fight itself.
The main police department in Warsaw confirmed that there was indeed a fight on the Vistula boulevards on the night of August 24-25, which was captured on video. However, the information circulating online that Ukrainian citizens fleeing the war engaged in the fight is not true. The Warsaw police identified 13 people who took part in the conflict, none of whom were citizens of Ukraine.
“We confirm the information about the conflict on Vistula boulevards on the night from Thursday to Friday. A few minutes after a phone call about an aggressive group of men, police officers arrived at the scene. A total of 13 people were identified, including Georgian citizens. There were no Ukrainian nationals among the citizens who had ID cards. An ambulance was also present at the scene, and no one required medical assistance. No one reported the crime either,” the website of the Main Police Department in Warsaw says.
This is not the first time that Kremlin propaganda has spread disinformation about Ukrainian refugees abroad to discredit them. StopFake journalists refuted similar fake reports in the stories Fake: Refugees from Ukraine Cause a Spike in Crime in Poland, Fake: Ukrainian Refugees Burn Down a 400-year-old Hotel in England, Fake: Ukrainian Refugees Rob an Elderly Woman’s Apartment in Poland.
