The Institute of National Remembrance of Poland (IPN) has submitted applications for search and exhumation work in several locations in Ukraine, including Huta Penyatska and two districts of Lviv — Zboishchyky and Holosk.
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According to IPN, the application for Huta Penyatska was submitted on 31 October 2024, while the applications for the Lviv work were submitted on 4 February this year. In addition, on 5 February, the Polish side filed requests for search operations in a number of settlements in Volyn, Rivne and Vinnytsia regions, including Kostiukhnovka, Kropyvnyky, Kukly, Mali Holoby, Ostrovky, Orishyn, Stanislava and Tynne.
The IPN Search and Identification Bureau is currently preparing new applications for exhumation work in Ukraine, which will be submitted to the Ukrainian side in the near future.
As a reminder, in January 2025, Ukraine granted permission for the exhumation of Polish victims of the 1945 Volyn tragedy to take place in April. The work will be carried out by experts from the Freedom and Democracy Foundation, which previously discovered the remains of the victims in Puzhnyky, Ternopil Oblast.
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