Poland Commemorate WWII Massacres by Ukrainians Amid Tensions with Kyiv
The memorial will list identified victims and include an eternal flame as Poland and Ukraine remain divided over World War II-era killings.
- On Saturday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the creation of a 'Wall of Remembrance' in Warsaw to honor victims of what he called a 'genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists' during World War Two.
- The announcement coincides with the anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 1943, when UPA and OUN units killed some 100,000 Poles in Volyn; Polish reprisals are thought to have claimed up to 12,000 Ukrainians.
- Diplomatic tensions escalated last month when Polish President Karol Nawrocki stripped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle after Zelensky named a military unit after the UPA.
- Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha responded to Warsaw's move by calling it a "strategic mistake," while President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that representatives of both states participated in joint prayers to commemorate victims.
- Urging Ukraine to "embrace this truth," Tusk stated that memory must not serve hatred, emphasizing that reconciliation regarding the past is necessary if the country wishes to join the European Union.
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Poland is going to erect a monument in Warsaw for the victims of massacres perpetrated by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II. It will be a memorial wall bearing the names of all identified victims. There will also be an eternal flame. Today marks 83 years since ultranationalist members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) attacked Polish civilians. Men, women, and children were brutally murdered in Volhynia, in present-day northwest Uk…
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The Polish Prime Minister announced on Saturday the construction in Warsaw of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the massacres attributed by Poland to Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War.
After the recent escalation of a dispute over the role of the notorious Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in World War II, Poland announced the establishment of a monument to the UPA victims in the Wolhynia region. "In Warsaw, a memorial wall is being erected, with an eternal flame and the name of all the victims found and identified," said Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday in a video message on the occasion of the National Volhynia Memorial D…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said that the country will erect a monument to the civilian victims who, according to him, perished as a result of genocide committed by Ukrainian ultranationalists in the 1940s. He speaks of "a wall of remembrance".
Poland has announced a monument to the victims of the massacres carried out by Ukrainian fighters during World War II in the Volhynia region.
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