Strategic partners Poland and Ukraine spar over painful past
Officials in Poland and Ukraine, staunch strategic partners, have unexpectedly exchanged bitter remarks regarding a painful mutual past that includes mass murder
By AP News
Published - May 22, 2023, 11:11 AM ET
Last Updated - Jun 21, 2023, 05:27 PM EDT
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland and Ukraine, staunch strategic partners, have unexpectedly exchanged bitter remarks regarding a painful mutual past that includes mass murder.
This year is the 80th anniversary of the massacres of tens of thousands of Poles by Ukrainians that Poland calls genocide.
In 1943-44, Ukrainian nationalists and others massacred about 100,000 Poles in Volhynia and other regions which were then eastern Poland, under Nazi German occupation, and which are now part of Ukraine.
Seeking to calm emotions, an aide to Poland’s President Andrzej Duda said Monday that the Poles only wanted the truth and respect for the tens of thousands of Polish victims.
