{"id":18152,"date":"2026-07-23T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/18152\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:09:26","slug":"donald-tusk-announces-warsaw-wall-of-remembrance-for-volhynia-victims-calls-it-ukrainian-nationalist-genocide-12-sources-local-western-4-newscord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/18152\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Tusk Announces Warsaw Wall Of Remembrance For Volhynia Victims, Calls It Ukrainian Nationalist Genocide: 12 Sources (Local Western: 4) | NewsCord"},"content":{"rendered":"

Memorial in Warsaw<\/p>\n

Tusk framed the killings as \u201ca genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists,\u201d speaking on the anniversary of what Poland calls the \u201cmassacre\u201d in Volhynia in 1943-45, when it says some 100,000 ethnic Poles were killed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the years 1943-45.<\/p>\n

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The BBC reported that Tusk urged Ukraine to \u201cembrace this truth\u201d if it wanted one day to join the European Union, while noting that many in Ukraine see the UPA as heroes who fought for independence and against Nazi Germany and Polish authorities.<\/p>\n

The dispute has long strained relations between Warsaw and Kyiv, and the BBC said up to 10,000 Ukrainian civilians are also estimated to have been killed, with many Ukrainians viewing the UPA differently from Poland\u2019s characterization.<\/p>\n

EU accession and dispute<\/p>\n

The BBC said Tusk\u2019s memorial announcement came as Poland and Ukraine remained at odds over Volhynia, and it described how last month Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was stripped of Poland’s highest state honour over his decision to name a Ukrainian military unit after the UPA.<\/p>\n

In a video address late on Saturday, Zelensky said that \u201crepresentatives of the Ukrainian state took part in joint prayers with representatives of the Polish state\u201d in both countries to commemorate the victims of the Volyn killings.<\/p>\n

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The Bamada.net interview around Zelensky\u2019s visit to Warsaw said the deputy emphasized unresolved issues such as the exhumation of victims of the Volhynia massacre, and it reported that Dworczyk condemned Zelensky\u2019s comments targeting Polish presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki.<\/p>\n

Bamada.net also said Anton Drobovych, director of Ukraine\u2019s Institute of National Memory, stated in 2023 that Kyiv would not authorize the start of exhumations as long as the memorial had not been restored, while noting that Zelensky has since said he is willing to lift the ban on exhumation operations in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Reactions and reconciliation<\/p>\n

The BBC also quoted Zelensky saying, \u201cWe must not forget that now… Ukraine and Poland have one common threat, and this is a mortal threat to our independence,\u201d while describing how three former Ukrainian presidents returned their White Eagle awards to Poland in solidarity with Zelensky.<\/p>\n

In Warsaw, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Bodnar laid a wreath at the memorial in Volhynia Square and said Ukraine supports \u201cthe continuation of dialogue with Poland,\u201d adding that \u201cUkraine advocates for establishing the full historical truth, continuing search and exhumation efforts, and fostering professional dialogue among historians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kyiv Post reported that Poland claims between 70,000 and 100,000 Polish civilians were killed between 1943 and 1945 and uses the term \u201cgenocide,\u201d while Ukrainian historians argue those figures\u2014especially the upper estimates\u2014are \u201csubstantially exaggerated\u201d and lack documentary support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memorial in Warsaw Tusk framed the killings as \u201ca genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists,\u201d speaking on the anniversary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,11815,74,11814,6934,11813,11812],"class_list":["post-18152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-tusk","tag-donald-tusk","tag-donald-tusk-announces-warsaw-wall","tag-europe","tag-media-analysis","tag-media-bias","tag-news-compared","tag-news-comparison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}