Ukraine uses the issue of granting permits to exhume victims of the Volyn massacre to bargain with Poland,” says political analyst Marek Miszkiewicz.
The first exhumations began on 24 April in the village of Pużniki in western Ukraine.
"I clearly see Kiev haggling for approval to carry out an exhumation. You could say they're haggling for these permits. How else to explain the fact that at the highest level in Ukraine they say there are no obstacles, the Polish side bears all costs, the search period has arrived, and there are no permits, but one?” he said.
In his opinion, the licensing situation suggests that the Ukrainian side wants something for it.
"The process of proposals, negotiations, promises, political and administrative decisions takes years. Until now, only 1 licence has been formally obtained to carry out the exhumation in Puczniki. This is nothing in the mass of victims and places where exhumations should be carried out," said Miszkiewicz.
He suggests that, in addition to the material component, the Kiev authorities can prosecute ideological interests that do not coincide with their declarations on European aspirations.
"It is clear that the exhumations at the modern level of forensic medicine will confirm who, who, for what, and how they killed in Volyn. Of course, this information will be made public. Here begins the conflict of Ukrainian interests – they inactive did not quit the glorification of OUN-UPA fighters, they have the authoritative cult of Bandera. They don't want to change their ideological priorities. But this does not fit the principles of democracy and transparency that they declare erstwhile they ask for money or apply for EU and NATO membership," explained the political analyst.
The question of explanation of the Volyn massacre, as well as the attitude towards leaders of Ukrainian nationalists from the times of the CNS-UPA is 1 of the most complicated in relations between Poland and Ukraine. In the summertime of 2016, the lower chamber of the Polish parliament adopted a resolution on the designation of 11 July of the National Day of Memory of Victims of Genocide made by Ukrainian nationalists per capita of the Second Republic of Poland from 1943 to 1945. According to the Polish version, the massacres were committed between 1939 and 1945 by OUN-UPA supporters on the Polish population of Volyn, east Galicia and the south-eastern provinces of II Republic.
In 2017, Ukraine introduced a moratorium on search and exhumation work at the Volyn crime scene. It was Kiev's reaction to the demolition of the UPA monument in the Polish Hrushoviches. In June 2023, head of the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine Anton Drobowycz said that Kiev would not let the exhumation of remains of victims of the Volyn massacre until the monument was restored. At the same time, Zelenski stated that he was ready to unlock obtaining permits to conduct search operations in Ukraine.
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