Vasyl Bodnar, Ukraine's Ambassador to Poland, has confirmed that work on the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn tragedy will start this spring. [The Volyn (Volhynia) tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during World War II. It was part of a long-standing rivalry between Ukrainians and Poles in what is now Ukraine's west. Poland considers the Volyn tragedy a genocide of Poles – ed.]

Supply: Bodnar on Polish information channel TVN24, as reported by European Pravda

Particulars: "We intend to start exhuming the victims of the Volyn bloodbath this spring on the first permitted web site in Puzhnyky. Efforts are additionally underway to safe choices for exhumations in any respect different places in each Ukraine and Poland," he mentioned.

When requested if the exhumations in Puzhnyky would start in April, Bodnar mentioned, "We don't know the precise month but, however we’re making preparations in order that, climate allowing, all mandatory authorisations are secured and the Polish staff is able to proceed".

"Ukrainian regulation stipulates {that a} Ukrainian firm have to be licensed to hold out such work and the Polish aspect already has such a companion (…)

This collaboration is advancing with a Ukrainian establishment that has obtained all the mandatory permits and as soon as the groups start excavation collectively, the general public can be knowledgeable and an official announcement can be made via the ministers of tradition," Bodnar mentioned.

Background:

• Earlier, it was reported that Poland's Freedom and Democracy Basis, which found the burial web site in Puzhnyky two years in the past, had obtained permission from the Ukrainian authorities to exhume the stays and perform additional analysis.
• Reviews point out that roughly 80 folks misplaced their lives in Puzhnyky through the tragic occasions of 1945.
• In early January, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk introduced a "breakthrough" within the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn tragedy, although he didn’t disclose any particulars.
• However, Andrii Nadzhos, Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Tradition for European Integration, mentioned that Ukraine and Poland had exchanged lists of locations to seek for and exhume the stays of mutual historic conflicts.
• On the finish of November, Polish International Minister Radosław Sikorski and his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha issued a joint assertion confirming that Ukraine had no objections to Polish state establishments and organisations conducting search and exhumation work.

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