Several Polish officials were today reported in the international media to have made additional statements related to the commemoration in Poland of victims of an intense Polish-Ukrainian conflict in 1943, during World War II. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a Wall of Remembrance is to be built in Warsaw to commemorate Polish victims of the massacres in the historic Volhynia region.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Located primarily in today’s northwestern Ukraine, with smaller portions extending into southeastern Poland and southern Belarus, Volhynia was formerly under Polish rule, and at the time under Nazi German occupation. The memorial is to feature an eternal flame and the names of identified victims The timing and framing invite a response from the Ukrainian perspective. Acknowledging historical complexity Ukraine acknowledges that mass killings by Ukrainians of Poles, and vice versa, occurred in the Volhynia region and other formerly Polish-controlled areas during World War II. Violence by both sides resulted in civilian deaths that no responsible historian or government official seeks to justify. But from the Ukrainian point of view, to place the blame solely on one side is historically and morally unacceptable, as is the unsubstantiated speculation as to the number of victims on both sides. The fact is that significant disagreement remains over scale, characterization, and causes. Poland claims that between 70,000 and 100,000 Polish civilians were killed between 1943 and 1945, and uses the term “genocide,” with reprisals claiming up to 12,000 Ukrainian lives.