“Polish President Andrzej Duda on the day when his country honors the victims of the Volyn tragedy, declared the murder of the Poles by Ukrainians on ethnicity, but also called for reconciliation and joint care for a safe future.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” with reference to the post of Duda on the X network
The direct language of the Polish President: “Only on the basis of the truth – even the most difficult – can be constructed mature and sincere relationships between peoples, in particular between Poles and Ukrainians. Today is the next anniversary of the Bloody Sunday – the National Memorial of Poles – Victims of Genocide, OUN and the UPA in the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic.”
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Details: He stated that on July 11, 1943, “defenseless compatriots of” Poland were killed “Ukrainian nationalists” because they were “Poles”.
Duda added that Poland “wants and has the right to know where their remains lie”, as well as “be able to say goodbye to our loved ones, pray on their graves and light candles.”
“The right to honor the memory of the victims, and especially their joint worship, is an extremely important element of reconciliation and building a good future. True and memory should not share us if they lead to mutual understanding, reconciliation and joint care for a safe future,” the President summed up.
Prehistory:
- In June, the Polish Seimas determined on July 11, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide, committed by the OUN and the UPA in the eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic. ” The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that such a decision of Poland is contrary to the spirit of good neighborly relations between countries.
- Earlier, in response to the mass destruction of Ukrainian monuments in Poland in 2015-2017, Ukraine introduced the so-called moratorium on the search and exhumation of the Poles’ remains, which were killed in 1943-45 by improper investigation of these crimes.
- The issue of exhumation for years has been an apple of discord in relations between Ukraine and Poland. The Polish authorities, headed by Donald Tusk, stood on Kiev demanding to cancel the moratorium.
- Warsaw even said that the resolution of historical disputes would be one of the prerequisites for Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
- At the end of April in the Ternopil region, in the territory of the now -existing village of Puzhniki, the remains of the Poles who died in 1945 began to exhumulate.
- The head of the Polish-Ukrainian Working Group on Historical Dialogue Pavel Koval called it a breakthrough in relations between the two countries.