In solidarity with the Polish nation, today I pay tribute to all civilian victims – citizens of the Second Polish Republic, killed in the territories occupied by the Third Reich during World War II – Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Wasyl Zwarycz wrote in social media on Tuesday.
On July 11, in solidarity with the Polish nation, I pay tribute today to all civilian victims – citizens of the Second Republic of Poland, killed in the territories occupied by the Third Reich during the Second World War
Zwarych wrote.
He also expressed his condolences to all relatives and friends of the victims.
The entry was accompanied by a photo of the monument commemorating the victims of the Volhynian crime.
80 years ago, on July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army launched a coordinated attack on about 150 Polish-inhabited towns in the counties of Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kowel and Łuck in the former Volyn Voivodeship. The fact that people gathered in churches on Sunday, July 11, was used.
“Bloody Sunday”
“Bloody Sunday” is considered the culmination of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in 1943-1945. About 100,000 people died as a result of genocidal actions in Volhynia. Poles.
The perpetrators of the genocide were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – B (Bandera’s faction), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army subordinated to it, and the Ukrainian population encouraged by them, being the neighbors of the Poles, often related to them by blood ties. Roman Shukhevych, the commander-in-chief of the UPA, is directly responsible for issuing the punishment order. The OUN-UPA called its actions an “anti-Polish move” to make Ukraine an area inhabited exclusively by Ukrainians.
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Source: wPolityce