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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radosław Sikorski, said that he is "disappointed" because there is still no progress in the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn tragedy. He said this in an interview with TVN 4 on Monday, November 24, RFE/RL reports.
"I am disappointed because the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine promised me progress in this case by All Saints' Day - November 1, but there is no progress. We believe it is part of the European cultural code to bury the bodies of even enemies according to Christian rites. And Ukraine seems to agree with that, because it allowed the exhumation of 100 Wehrmacht soldiers who came there as invaders. So, I am once again appealing to the Ukrainian authorities. We will do it at our own expense, the only thing we need is a permit to resume exhumation, which was suspended in 2017," said Sikorsky.
The Volyn tragedy occurred in 1943, when the Polish Home Army and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army staged, according to Ukrainian researchers, mutual ethnic cleansing of Poles and Ukrainians. As a result, over 100 Poles and 40 Ukrainians died in Volyn. Witnesses of those events note the brutal methods of massacres on both sides.
