A Polish citizen submitted the first private request to Zelensky regarding the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn tragedy.
Polish citizen Karolina Romanovskaya submitted the first private request from Poland to the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky regarding the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn tragedy in Ukraine. Onet reported this on Monday, September 2.
“The Polish government and the Polish Institute of National Remembrance have repeatedly submitted such requests (to the Ukrainian authorities, – ed..), tried and rejected each time. As far as I know, this is one of the first requests of this kind from a private individual,” said Romanovskaya.
The woman asked for the possibility of exhuming 18 people, including members of her family, who died in the village of Ugly, which is now located in the Rivne region.
Since 2020, Warsaw has submitted nine requests to the Ukrainian side to carry out the exhumations of Polish victims, but each time it has been rejected.
The subject of the Volyn tragedy is one of the most controversial in Ukrainian-Polish relations. The opinions of Kyiv and Warsaw on the causes, responsibility and number of victims on both sides differ.
The Polish side insisted that the Ukrainian side was solely responsible for the crimes committed in 1943-1945 in Volyn. The Ukrainian side emphasizes that both sides are responsible.
Let’s recall that the previous Polish President Andrzej Duda accused the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the SS Galicia division of destroying the Polish village of Huta Pieniatska (Brodovsky district, Lviv region) in 1944.
Source: korrespondent
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