In Lutsk in Volhynia there are events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Volyn tragedy and the memory of its Polish victims. With the participation of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda in the Cathedral of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lutsk, a funeral service was held, which was served by Metropolitan of Lviv, Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokritsky, transmits Polish Radio.

At the sermon, Archbishop Mokritsky said that the Polish victims of the Volyn tragedy kept faith and held to the end, despite the enormous suffering:.

"Let their souls rest in peace, because we remember them, believing God for the 75th time, all victims of an insane ideology, repeating for St. John Paul II, the words he said in Lviv during the pilgrimage to Ukraine : "Let forgiveness, given and received, spread like a virtuous balm in every heart. And let the purification of historical memory help to put above what unites than what divides ".

The program of memorable events also includes a visit to the village of Olyki by the President of Poland to pay tribute to the victims of the Polish-Ukrainian conflict during the Second World War and laying wreaths to the mass graves of the killed Poles. This is the territory of the now no longer existing Polish villages.

The second Sunday in July traditionally marks the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday. July 11, 1943 was the apogee of mass slaughter of the Polish population by Ukrainian nationalists. According to data concerning the massacres in Volhynia, which the Polish parliament recognized as genocide, about 100 thousand Poles died.