The Museum Of The Battle Of Grunwald Has Proposed Flying A White-red-white Flag

• 17.06.2026, 10:32

Belarusians are collecting signatures.

In the Battle of Grunwald, the ancestors of Belarusians fought side by side with the ancestors of Poles, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians, but there is no Belarusian flag on the Grunwald battlefield—neither a state flag nor a national flag. There is a proposal to rectify this.

Yuri Meleshkevich , deputy chairman of the BNF Party , has launched a petition on the website iPetitions.com a petition calling for the installation of a standard bearing the white-red-white flag on the Grunwald battlefield. The flags of Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine are already on display at this site—the activist proposes adding the national flag of Belarus.

“Belarusians were also an integral part of this victory. The regiments of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, formed on Belarusian lands—in Minsk, Polotsk, Vitebsk, Novogrudok, Grodno, and other cities—fought at Grunwald on equal footing with the other participants in the battle,” writes the author of the petition. “Therefore, displaying the Belarusian national white-red-white banner alongside the Polish, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian flags is an act of historical justice and solidarity between our peoples,” the petition states.