In Mościska there was a burial ceremony of at least 31 Polish soldiers killed in September 1939 during the defence of Lviv. Minister Cienkowska, head of the ministry, attended the ceremonies and announced the extension of Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in the field of exhumation. «We are realising further activities in this cooperation. It can be said that this is an crucial step and surely not the last”, she told journalists.
Poland received a licence for search activities in the village of Ugły in the Equatorial territory of Ukraine. Minister Cienkowska explained: «We want to conduct a survey in the village of Ugły in the end of this year, or at the beginning of the next year, and start work in spring». Poland besides talks about works in Pieniacka Huta in the Lviv Oblast. “For us, these are the 2 most crucial locations at this point”, stressed the head of the ministry.
The abolition of the moratorium
At the end of November 2024, Polish and Ukrainian abroad ministers Radosław Sikorski and Andrij Sybiha announced the abolition of the moratorium for exhumations. Ukraine has confirmed that “there are no obstacles to Polish state institutions and private entities carrying out search and exhumation work in accordance with Ukrainian legislation”. The Ukrainian side declared “ready to deal positively with these issues”.
The ban on search and exhumation works was imposed by the Ukrainian IPN in spring 2017, after the demolition of the UPA monument in Hruszowice in April 2017. In the spring of this year, exhumations were carried out in the erstwhile village of Puźniki in the Tarnopolski region, where Ukrainian nationalists murdered 50 to 120 Poles on the night of 12 to 13 February 1945. At least 42 people were found buried there on September 6.
The Polish-Ukrainian dispute concerns the function of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgency Army, liable for the genocide of cultural cleansing in 1943-1945, which was the victim of nearly 100,000 Polish men, women and children. Buried in Mościska, soldiers died on September 16 and 17, 1939 during the fight with Wehrmacht in the northern suburbs of Lviv. In 2015 and 2016, 111 and 27 Polish soldiers were buried in the Polish war cemetery in Mościska.
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