In the villages of Ostrovki and Volya Ostrovetska in the Volyn region, since April 20, a Ukrainian-Polish expedition has been conducting excavations to discover mass graves of Poles from the Second World War.

Secretary of the State Interdepartmental Commission for Perpetuation of Memory Svyatoslav Sheremeta reported that human remains were found in one of the excavation sites, but their number will be established after permission for exhumation. Now the find site has been preserved (covered with earth).

The head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (UINR), Alexander Alferov, also stated that remains had been found that could belong to four different people, including two skulls. He stated that no mass mass grave had been found in this place.. But work continues.

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Historian of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland, Krzysztof Swarzhik, said that specialists should explore eight places, search work will last until April 30.

" This is a certain stage of our research, not completion. We will do everything to obtain consent for exhumation, which will then allow us to identify the remains of the dead in order to return their names and surnames, and then bury them,” said the Polish historian.

Excavations in this area were carried out in the 90s, in 2011, in 2015 and in other years.

In previous years, the dead were found both in the village of Volia-Ostrovetskaya and in the village of Ostrovki, but the exact number is unknown, since the Polish side did not provide reports. Officials call the memorial on the site of the former village of Ostrovki a likely reburial site..

Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Culture allowed Poland to search for the graves of the dead residents of the village of Guta Penyatskaya in the Lviv region.