The Ukraine Recovery Conference opened Thursday in the Polish port of Gdansk under heavy security, with a conciliatory tone despite weeks of historical squabbling. President Volodymyr Zelensky was notably absent after infuriating Poles by signing a decree naming a military unit after WWII Ukrainian nationalist insurgents who committed massacres against Poles. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko led the Kyiv delegation instead, thanking Poland for its early support without mentioning the disagreements. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged the West to believe that a post-war Ukraine will "rise from the ruins," drawing a parallel to the reconstruction of his native Gdansk after World War II.