Poland's prime minister and Catholic church leaders opened several days of observances Friday to honour victims of World War II massacres of tens of thousands of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists, which have marred the tightening strategic relations between the neighbouring nations.
"We can say that for many years this has been an unhealed wound in Polish-Ukrainian relations," said Rafal Bochenek, the spokesperson for Poland's ruling right-wing party.Poland says the 1943-44 massacre of some 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists was genocide. Entire villages were burned down and all their inhabitants killed by nationalists and their helpers who sought to establish an independent Ukraine state.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki traveled early Friday to Ukraine to visit massacre sites, the villages of Ostrowki and Puzniki that were wiped out by units of Ukraine's nationalist forces. He put up commemorative crosses and visited local cemeteries where some of the victims were buried. Not all burial sites are known.
The leader of Poland's Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, and Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church held a joint religious service Friday in Warsaw.Poland has long pursued Kyiv's permission for the search for burial sites, exhumations, identification and commemoration of the Polish victims.
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