Poland has announced when and where the first exhumations of victims of the Volyn massacre will begin

The first exhumations of victims of the Volyn Massacre are set to begin in April in the former village of Puzhnyky, located in Ternopil Oblast.

This information according to Polish radio station RMF FM.

A Polish foundation, which discovered this burial site near the former cemetery two years ago, has received official permission from Ukrainian authorities to conduct the work.

The remains will be excavated, and efforts will be made to identify the victims. Genetic material is already being collected from descendants. Once the victims are identified, a reburial is planned.

“The massacre of the residents of Puzhnyky took place in February 1945. Around 80 people were killed by Ukrainian nationalists,” *RMF FM* reports.

The village of Puzhnyky was located near the village of Zalesie in the Monastyryska community.

On January 10, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Ukraine had issued the first permits for the exhumation of the remains of Volyn Massacre victims. He expressed gratitude to the culture ministers of both Poland and Ukraine for their cooperation on this matter.

Earlier, in November, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski stated that his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha had promised to begin resolving the issue of exhumations by the end of October. However, Sikorski noted, “this promise was not kept.”