Poland grants permit for Ukrainian search at site of civilians killed in 1944
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Poland has issued a permit for Ukraine to carry out works on the territory of the village of Laskiv in the Kholm region (Photo: Ivan Verbytskyi / Facebook)
Poland has authorized Ukraine to conduct search work in the village of Laskiv in the Chełm region, at the suspected burial site of Ukrainian civilians killed in March 1944, Ukrainian First Deputy Culture Minister Ivan Verbytskyi said on Sept. 1.
“Poland has issued permission for a Ukrainian expedition to conduct search work in the village of Laskiv in the Chełm region — at the suspected burial site of Ukrainian civilian residents killed in March 1944,” Verbytskyi wrote on Facebook.
The permit was granted to the Dolia Memorial and Search Center, while the work will be carried out at the request of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, he said.
The authorization is the result of agreements reached by a Ukrainian-Polish working group on dignified burials established at the initiative of the two countries’ culture ministries, Verbytskyi added.
Ukraine and Poland continue historical search and exhumation work
In early May 2025, the remains of 42 people were discovered during exhumation work at the site of the former village of Puzhnyky in Ternopil Oblast. The remains were reburied on Sept. 6.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on July 17, 2026, that Ukraine would open all Security Service of Ukraine and Foreign Intelligence Service archives relating to the tragic events in Volyn in 1943-1944.
On July 21, Sviatoslav Sheremeta, executive secretary of Ukraine’s State Interdepartmental Commission on the Commemoration of Participants in the Anti-Terrorist Operation, Victims of War and Political Repression and head of the Dolia Memorial and Search Center, said the remains of 38 people killed during World War II had been found during an exhumation at the former village of Volia-Ostrovetska in Volyn.
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