Polish and Ukrainian flags. Stock photo: Getty Images
Poland's Minister of Defence Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz will visit Ukraine's Volyn Oblast on 11 July, to take part in commemorations honouring those killed in the region during the Second World War.
Source: Kosiniak-Kamysz on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda
Details: Kosiniak-Kamysz said he wants to honour the victims of the Volyn tragedy. [The Volyn (Volhynia) tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during World War II. It was part of a long-standing rivalry between Ukrainians and Poles in what is now Ukraine's west. Poland considers the Volyn tragedy a genocide of Poles – ed.]
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