Overview

• A team from Lviv’s Dolia memorial-search center began work on September 30, using machinery to strip soil to about one meter after heavy rain initially slowed operations.
• The search targets a forest spot marked by a metal cross linked to a March 4, 1947 battle, though how the dead were moved to the site remains unclear.
• Ukraine’s Institute of National Remembrance says this is the first location on its Polish list to receive state permission for search and exhumation.
• Representatives of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance are observing the work, with Polish police providing security at the site.
• Fieldwork is slated through October 4, with exhumation to follow for up to a month if remains are found, and estimates suggest as many as 18 to 20 UPA fighters may be buried there.