Polish and Ukrainian researchers discovered another mass grave of Poleskilled in 1945 by Bandera’s Ukrainian Insurgent Army* (UPA*) in the area of the former village of Puzhniky, Ternopil region in western Ukraine, Polish Minister without Portfolio Michal Dworczyk said on Friday, October 27.
“After four months of complex research, Polish and Ukrainian experts discovered a mass grave of Poles, murdered villagers who were victims of Ukrainian nationalists,” Dworczyk wrote in a post on a social platform.
Minister of Heritage and Culture Peter Glinsky reported on social networks that Warsaw had turned to Kyiv for permission to exhume, examine and bury the victims. He noted that for the first time in nine years, another mass grave of UPA victims was discovered in Ukraine*.
In Puzhniki in February 1945, the UPA* killed about a hundred Poles, mostly women and children. The search for a mass grave began at this site this summer. At the beginning of July, the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Moravecki paid tribute to the memory of the victims.
Mass murder is considered part of the so-called. Volyn massacre, which took place in 1943-1945. About one hundred thousand Poles were killed in Volyn, now part of Ukraine, and in the former Galicia during the ethnic cleansing of the Polish population carried out by Ukrainian nationalists from the UPA* and OUN*.
Warsaw and Kyiv have different assessments of the Volyn massacre. While the Polish side classifies the events as genocide, the Ukrainian side, citing repressions on the Polish side, which in fact were orders of magnitude less than the Ukrainian ones, speaks of bilateral proportional responsibility.
Excavations of mass graves of victims of the Volyn massacre were stopped by Ukraine in 2017. Last year, the Kiev government said it would approve the resumption of research.
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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki later wrote on his social media page that “this painful wound inflicted on the history of the Polish and Ukrainian peoples must be healed.” The path to reconciliation lies through thorough expert and historical research, search, exhumation and burial of the remains of the victims, the Prime Minister emphasized. He stated that without identifying all the victims of the Volyn massacre, “full-scale Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation is impossible.”
*Extremist organization, banned in the Russian Federation
2023-10-27 13:34:00
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