Demonstrations took place in around 25 Polish cities on Sunday against a “growing wave of hate and violence” against Ukrainians, who are Poland’s largest immigrant group. Ukrainians are by far Poland’s largest foreign national group, with around 1.6 million living in the country. While Poland welcomed Ukrainian refugees in 2022, there has been growing negative sentiment towards them recently, indicated in polls and through anti-Ukrainian rhetoric from prominent politicians. The number of reported hate crimes against Ukrainians in Poland is up 30% so far this year, police data show. Poland’s largest opposition party, the national-conservative PiS, has called for Ukrainian men of conscription age who are not legally working to be deported to Ukraine.