{"id":92175,"date":"2026-08-03T14:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/human-remains-exhumed-at-site-of-controversial-world-war-ii-massacres-in-ukraine-each-of-them-had-their-dreams\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:38:39","slug":"human-remains-exhumed-at-site-of-controversial-world-war-ii-massacres-in-ukraine-each-of-them-had-their-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/human-remains-exhumed-at-site-of-controversial-world-war-ii-massacres-in-ukraine-each-of-them-had-their-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains exhumed at site of controversial World War II massacres in Ukraine: &#8220;Each of them had their dreams&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Beneath two now-deserted villages in western Ukraine \u2014 the site of World War II-era massacres \u2014 archaeologists are uncovering the bones at the heart of a dispute that has strained relations between Warsaw and Kyiv for years.<\/p>\n<p>Disagreements over what happened and who is responsible for the Volyn massacres have long cast a shadow over ties between the otherwise now close neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1943 and 1945, tens of thousands of civilians were killed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in territory occupied by Nazi Germany, according to Polish estimates of the toll.<\/p>\n<p>Warsaw calls it a &#8220;genocide&#8221; against the Polish minority, while Ukraine hails the UPA as freedom fighters, sees the events as a wartime &#8220;tragedy&#8221; and says that Ukrainians were killed in retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>The exact number of people killed at the time remains contested, but Poland&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eng.ipn.gov.pl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of National Remembrance<\/a> (IPN) estimates that about 100,000 people died in the 1943-45 anti-Polish campaign in the Volhynia, Eastern Galicia and Lublin regions. The institute also estimates that at least 10,000 died in Polish attacks of retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Amid sunflower fields and forests, joint Polish-Ukrainian teams of archaeologists have been carefully excavating the remains of victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to restore their first and last names &#8230; to fulfil the duty that rests on us as heirs of those who were murdered here,&#8221; said Karol Polejowski, deputy president of the IPN.<\/p>\n<p>The remains of over 50 people have been recovered in a series of exhumations taking place in the area, but they have yet to be identified. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/523155a8-f060-4984-8c29-0d00d5cd9915\/thumbnail\/620x413\/65ce09c143ab4442e042e78b3435341d\/gettyimages-2287466721.jpg#\" alt=\"UKRAINE-POLAND-HISTORY-WWII \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/523155a8-f060-4984-8c29-0d00d5cd9915\/thumbnail\/620x413\/65ce09c143ab4442e042e78b3435341d\/gettyimages-2287466721.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/523155a8-f060-4984-8c29-0d00d5cd9915\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/c4bbb4959acd7549c319228367731fe3\/gettyimages-2287466721.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Archaeologists recover human remains at the exhumation site of the World War II Volhynia massacre near the destroyed village of Ostrivky, Volyn region on July 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Serhii Okunev \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A handmade wooden cross, planted near the graves, is one of the few signs that the villages ever existed.<\/p>\n<p>Political leaders in both countries believe the exhumations can be a first step in repairing relations, which have been strained this year by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyrkze46p0o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rift triggered<\/a> when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named a military unit after the UPA.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Driven to the field of death barefoot&#8221; \u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>In a white tent around six miles from the Polish border, experts meticulously lay out the skeletons of recovered victims, measuring bones and carefully trying to match broken skull fragments.<\/p>\n<p>A small number of other artefacts \u2014 rosaries, religious medallions and shoes \u2014 have also been unearthed under the field of yellow-and-black sunflowers, one of the national symbols of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The remains were arranged in a highly disordered manner. Most of the bodies had been brought to the burial pit and simply dumped into it,&#8221; Olga Mineiko, an anthropologist at the Ukrainian Memorial and Search Center, told AFP on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were likely &#8220;driven to the field of death barefoot and without personal belongings,&#8221; said Polejowski.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/8c678cfa-5b1a-46ab-b648-bc72fcd13c85\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/80a0600dae5b1bc8c6f48ac37d7be3d8\/gettyimages-2287466987.jpg#\" alt=\"UKRAINE-POLAND-HISTORY-WWII \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/8c678cfa-5b1a-46ab-b648-bc72fcd13c85\/thumbnail\/620x413g8\/80a0600dae5b1bc8c6f48ac37d7be3d8\/gettyimages-2287466987.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/8c678cfa-5b1a-46ab-b648-bc72fcd13c85\/thumbnail\/1240x826g8\/0cf3c9e76f79997aead3f46424a1fc34\/gettyimages-2287466987.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Archaeologists work with human remains at the exhumation site of the World War II Volhynia massacre near the destroyed village of Ostrivky, Volyn region on July 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Serhii Okunev \/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The genetic material is collected, with the IPN appealing to Poles who believe they may have lost relatives in the massacre to provide their own to help find matches.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic specialists and anthropologists will also examine the bones to determine the approximate age, sex and cause of death of each of them.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that 30 to 40% of the 50 remains so far discovered at the site were children, according to Polejowski.<\/p>\n<h2>Diplomatic spat\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The massacres have been a recurring point of contention between Warsaw and Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>The UPA was a paramilitary organization tied to the Ukrainian independence movement that fought the Soviet Union&#8217;s Red Army.<\/p>\n<p>But it collaborated with the Nazis when they first invaded the Soviet Union, clashed with the Polish resistance and killed Poles, Jews and other civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia invaded in 2022, the UPA has been honored in Ukraine as a force that fought for independence from Moscow under the Soviet Union. Kyiv insisted Zelenskyy&#8217;s choice of name for the military unit was not directed against Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>But Polish President Karol Nawrocki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr7xzg3dmj8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withdrew Poland&#8217;s highest national honor<\/a> from him in response. Three former Ukrainian presidents later returned their White Eagle awards to Poland in solidarity with Zelenskyy, BBC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>In Poland, the issue has become even more politicized as nationalist parties seek to embolden their base ahead of parliamentary elections next year \u2014 part of a broader campaign to whip up anti-Ukrainian sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>Poland is home to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees \u2014 with a backlash against their presence having surged during a divisive presidential election campaign last year, won by the right-wing Nawrocki.<\/p>\n<p>The country is still the main hub for military and humanitarian aid deliveries to Ukraine, and Prime Minister Donald Tusk&#8217;s pro-European government has repeatedly called for a de-escalation.<\/p>\n<p>Warsaw has welcomed efforts by Zelenskyy to cool the tension, including the promise of opening classified intelligence documents.<\/p>\n<p>As Tusk and Zelenskyy try to bury the hatchet, in the Ukrainian fields near the Polish border, plans are underway for a proper farewell to those uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want them to be buried here, where they lived, where each of them had their dreams and plans, and wanted their life to unfold,&#8221; said Polejowski. &#8220;In this soil they should rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Tusk announced the creation of a national memorial to the victims, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cze94x4361po\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Truth is our duty toward the victims, but also a way to overcome a painful past for the sake of a better future,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Memory cannot be the servant of hatred. The answer to nationalism cannot be more nationalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/7c8edd64-d38b-49f4-88f7-815aa023731f\/thumbnail\/620x413\/d218a338280d73b76cb730c34c5c67a0\/gettyimages-2287466967.jpg#\" alt=\"UKRAINE-POLAND-HISTORY-WWII \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/7c8edd64-d38b-49f4-88f7-815aa023731f\/thumbnail\/620x413\/d218a338280d73b76cb730c34c5c67a0\/gettyimages-2287466967.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/08\/03\/7c8edd64-d38b-49f4-88f7-815aa023731f\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/d9b6fe2c9b0b4bc733672dd398b34254\/gettyimages-2287466967.jpg 2x\" 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