Ukraine blocking search for Polish victims of wartime crimes

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Authorities in Ukraine are blocking work by a team of Poles searching for the remains of Polish victims of wartime crimes in that country, according to an expert.

This includes problems that Polish researchers are encountering as they search for the burial sites of Polish victims of the so-called Volhynia Massacre in Ukraine, Prof. Krzysztof Szwagrzyk, deputy head of Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, said.

Speaking on Polish public broadcaster TVP Info, Szwagrzyk said: "We are talking about a search for sites where Polish citizens were murdered during World War II. We are not talking about any commemorations that could raise controversy because of either their form or content. We are talking the possibility of conducting search and exhumation work."

Experts from the IPN's search and identification division, including Leon Popek, head of the institute's Borderlands Department, wanted to carry out exhumations in Ukraine of the remains of Polish victims of the Volhynia massacre and of Polish Border Protection Corps soldiers who died while fighting Soviet troops after the Soviet invasion of Poland of September 17, 1939.

The Polish experts also wanted to exhume the remains of Polish Army soldiers who died in the defence of the city of Lviv, which was once Polish and is now in Ukraine, according to Szwagrzyk.

The appeal concerned a monument in the Polish village of Hruszowice that honours members of the UPA who fought Poles during and in the aftermath of World War II and who were killed during clashes with Polish soldiers in 1946.

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