In Lvov, digitized copies of cases from the archives of the internal troops of the NKVD, which fought the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in the western regions of Ukraine, were presented. The event took place in the museum-memorial of victims of occupation regimes “Prison on Lontskogo”, reports Suspilne Lviv.

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In the late 80s, these archives were taken to Moscow. In the 90s, Ukrainian archivist Anatoly Kentiy copied documents and reproduced them on films, which have now been digitized. The files record plans for fighting, military operations, losses of the UPA and internal troops, captured trophies and the results of deportation.

“These documents directly contain information about when internal troops committed war crimes, that is, not only information about the struggle of internal troops of the NKVD of the Soviet Union and units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, but also those crimes that were committed by NKVD soldiers against the civilian population, and so on. Those same deportations are, in fact, one of the crimes that would be worth investigating in the future,” said Andrey Kogut, director of the sectoral state archive of the SBU.

According to him, these tapes contain information from more than 400 cases..

" And this is important for understanding, unfortunately, what can and, apparently, is happening in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine today. All the methods that the NKVD troops used then, unfortunately, are used by Russia today, we must understand this,” he adds.

Digitized copies can be viewed on the website of the electronic archive of the Ukrainian Liberation Movement.

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We would like to remind you that in the middle of the forest in the Carpathians in the Polish village of Yurechkova, researchers from the Lviv memorial and search center " Up to 18 fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army can be buried in the village.

It is noted that the soldiers died in battle with the Polish Army in 1947. Ukrainian experts say that UPA members defended themselves by protecting Ukrainian civilians from forced removal during Operation Vistula..

The battle itself took place further from the place where they are looking for bodies. It is not known for certain how the bodies of the dead were transported..

Before the Second World War, the village of Yurechkova belonged to the Dobromilsky district of the Lviv Voivodeship; predominantly Ukrainian Greek Catholics lived there. At the beginning of the war, it became part of the USSR, but after 1945 it became part of Poland.. After this, Ukrainians began to be forcibly evicted, and the UPA resisted.