"Thank you to the culture ministers of Poland and Ukraine for their good cooperation. We are waiting for further decisions," the Prime Minister wrote on social media.
On Thursday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Ołeksij Czernyszow visited Poland, where he met with the Minister of Culture, Hanna Wróblewska, to discuss the role of culture in maintaining the national identity of both countries.
On Friday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Paweł Wroński announced that exhumations in Volhynia will begin in the spring, in accordance with Ukrainian law and after the signing of the relevant documents by the National Memory Institutes of both countries.
Paweł Wroński, spokesperson for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Photo: PAP/Piotr Nowak
In a statement from the foreign ministers of Poland and Ukraine in November 2024, Ukraine declared its readiness to positively consider exhumation requests, while the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) expressed its willingness to take immediate action.
The Polish IPN reminded that according to historians' research, over 120,000 Poles were killed by Ukrainian nationalists between 1939 and 1947, and these crimes are classified as genocide.
Source: IAR/MSZ/X/@PoszukiwaniaIPN
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