Polish PM urges Ukraine to allow exhumation of all victims of WWII massacres
Poland has become one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded in 2022, but ties between the neighbors have been strained for generations by the Volhynia killings in 1943-45.
By REUTERS
Poland and Ukraine will never be fully reconciled until all Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War Two have been found and laid to rest, the Polish prime minister said on Tuesday as he marked the anniversary of the Volhynia massacres. Poland has become one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded in 2022, but ties between the neighbors have been strained for generations by the Volhynia killings that took place from 1943 to 1945.
"That crime was so unique that it has to be called by its name ... it was genocide," Mateusz Morawiecki said during a commemoration ceremony in Warsaw. "There will be no final Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation without finding all the remains, without them finally being honored."
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Poland has become one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded in 2022, but ties between the neighbors have been strained for generations by the Volhynia killings in 1943-45.
By REUTERS
Poland and Ukraine will never be fully reconciled until all Poles killed by Ukrainian nationalists during World War Two have been found and laid to rest, the Polish prime minister said on Tuesday as he marked the anniversary of the Volhynia massacres. Poland has become one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded in 2022, but ties between the neighbors have been strained for generations by the Volhynia killings that took place from 1943 to 1945.
"That crime was so unique that it has to be called by its name ... it was genocide," Mateusz Morawiecki said during a commemoration ceremony in Warsaw. "There will be no final Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation without finding all the remains, without them finally being honored."
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