Polish Teams Launch Search for WWII Mass Graves in Western Ukraine
The operation, which started this week, is being coordinated between Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance and Ukrainian partners. The work is focused on Huta Pieniacka, a former Polish settlement in what is now Ukraine’s Lviv region, where hundreds of people were killed in February 1944.
Officials in Poland say the initiative is part of a wider effort to identify victims of wartime massacres attributed to Ukrainian nationalist formations, including the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), during the 1943–1945 period.
The issue has recently drawn renewed political attention after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a decree granting an army special forces unit the honorary title “Heroes of the UPA,” a move that sparked strong criticism in Poland.
Despite past tensions, both Polish and Ukrainian authorities say the recovery and identification of remains could help reduce one of the most sensitive historical disputes between the two countries, which currently maintain close security cooperation.
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