Breakthrough of the exhumation in Volyn. ‘There is simply a consensus’

Friday Karolina Romanowska stated that the Ukrainian side had agreed to search in Ugła.

"I informed the Polish side and asked for representation Institute of National Memory and support Ministry of Culture“The president of the Polish-Ukrainian Reconciliation Association wrote.

"This is an crucial step towards memory and reconciliation," she added.

He reacted to this information. Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski.

"Finally good news," he wrote social media.

"The search work in Ugła is pre-planned for May 2025" – he submitted the Ukrainian IPN in a letter to Romanowska which quotes wp.pl.

Exhumation of Volyn victims. Works in Puźniki

Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Alina Charłamova, who will oversee the work of the Ukrainian Foundation Volynian Antiquity, announced that on 24 April the exhumation of Polish victims in Puźniki in the Tarnopolski region will begin.

– Exhumation of remains of civilians, erstwhile residents the villages of Puźniki, will begin on 24 April 2025. I think the full process will take about 3 weeks – she said.

Charlamowa said that according to the memories of residents and papers in the graves in Puźniki he could be buried to 79 people.

In work in Puźniki 7 representatives of the Ukrainian Volynsky Antiquity Foundation will participate, which received approval from the Ukrainian authorities on 8 January. Polish representatives of Pomerania will participate in the research IPN branch and Freedom and Democracy Foundation.

Exhumation of Volyn victims. Agreement with Ukraine

Decision to abolish the existing as of 2017. search moratorium and exhumation of remains of Polish victims of the Volynsk crime was announced in late November 2024 during a joint press conference Foreign Ministers of Poland and Ukraine, Radosław Sikorski and Andrija Sybiha.

The Ukrainian side then confirmed that "there are no obstacles to Polish state institutions and private entities in cooperation with the competent Ukrainian institutions for exploration and exhumation work on the territory of Ukraine, in accordance with Ukrainian legislation.’ She besides declared "ready to deal positively with requests in these cases".