The Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance requires the Polish side to openly and transparently investigate all the facts of the destruction of Ukrainian memory sites that took place during 2014-2017. , And the accountability of the guilty persons "The absence of a proper reaction of the Polish authorities to the systematic destruction of the Ukrainian places of memory in Poland forces us to suspend the process of legalization of the Polish memorial sites on the territory of Ukraine," says the statement of the institute.

According to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, today there are at least 105 Polish monuments and memorials installed on the territory of Ukraine between 1991 and 2017. , Remain illegal.

As recalled in the Institute, on April 26 in the cemetery of Grushovychi village of Peremyshl district of Podkarpackie Voivodeship a group of unknown persons destroyed the mass grave of UIA warriors and committed the outrage over the State Coat of Arms of Ukraine - a trident.

Organizers called their criminal actions "public action" and "the first legal dismantling of an illegal monument". The eradication of the grave was announced in the Polish media, and the Polish journalists covered the "dismantling" directly at the cemetery. The barbaric destruction of the grave was not impeded by the police, and the village elder even approvingly approached of the crime, the Institute.

"The destruction of the mass grave of UIA soldiers in Grushoviches is the 15th act of outraging the places of memory of the Ukrainian people in Poland, committed since 2014. These cases remain without consideration by Polish law enforcement agencies. Polish authorities do not restore destroyed monuments. Simultaneously, during the same period, four acts of abuse of Polish memory places were committed in Ukraine, and each time the Ukrainian authorities restored memorial objects in their original form as soon as possible, and criminal cases were initiated on the facts of vandalism, "the statement says..

Earlier it was reported that the Polish nationalists on April 26 dismantled the monument to the UPA soldiers, installed in the cemetery of the village Grushovici near Przemysl. The dismantling of the monument was carried out with the consent of the voit, the elders, the police did not intervene. Earlier, the monument was repeatedly targeted by vandals.