The Ukrainian ambassador admitted that the month in which the work will start is not yet known because It depends on weather conditions. – We do not know exactly in which month, but we are preparing that if the weather allows, all permits are issued and the team from the Polish side is also prepared to start these activities – he said on TVN24.
It is known that the Ukrainian side is focused on starting work in spring. – We plan in the first place in the first place where the permit has already been issued, i.e. in Puźniki – noted the diplomat.
Wasyl Bodnar He said that work is underway to determine all other places where the exhumation of Polish victims would be carried out – this is done both in Poland and Ukrainian. – According to Ukrainian legislation, there will be a Ukrainian company, which has a license to carry out such works. The Polish side already has such a partner and this cooperation is developing with the Ukrainian institution – he explained and added that “this institution got all permits and when the teams will leave together, they will start digging, then the community will find out and of course We will communicate about this by the Ministers for Culture“.
Volhynia. Who will finance the exhumations of Poles?
The Ukrainian side partly participates in financing exhumation works on the territory of Ukraine. – local authorities and our Institute of National Remembrance reported that it would co -finance these works, but Mainly financing is from the Polish side – noted the Ukrainian ambassador.
– The point is to launch this process, which, unfortunately, in the pause of 2017 – he concluded.
The decision to abolish the moratorium in force since 2017 for the search and exhumation of the remains of Polish victims of the Volhynia crime was announced at the end of November 2024 during a joint press conference of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Poland and Ukraine Radosław Sikorski i Andrija Sybhyy.
Ukraine confirmed at the time that “there are no obstacles to conducting Polish state institutions and private entities in cooperation with relevant Ukrainian institutions search and exhumation works on the territory of Ukrainein accordance with Ukrainian legislation “and declared” readiness for positive consideration of conclusions in these matters “.
Volhynia. Tusk writes about the breakthrough. “We are waiting for the next decisions”
January 10 prime minister Donald Tusk He informed on the platform X: “There is a decision about the first exhumations of Polish victims of the UPA. I thank the ministers of Polish and Ukraine culture for good cooperation. We are waiting for the next decisions” – he added.
The candidate in the presidential election reacted to this entry. “If only confirms – this is a great news. We in Institute of National Remembrance For years in full readiness and determination. We are waiting for official information and we are going to fulfill our obligations to Poland, “he wrote Karol Nawrocki.
Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine said that Ukraine and Poland exchanged letters of searches and exhumation places remains of victims of mutual historical conflicts.
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