Overview
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on July 11 a Wall of Remembrance in Warsaw with an eternal flame and the names of every identified victim that Poland says were killed by Ukrainian nationalists in World War II.
- Poland’s defense minister Władysław Kosiniak‑Kamysz traveled to Olyka on July 11 to attend memorial events, call for exhumations and push for reconciliation based on truth, remembrance and forgiveness.
- Oleksandr Alfyorov, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, attended Volyn commemorations and urged honest, non‑politicized remembrance and joint services for Polish and Ukrainian victims.
- Joint archaeological work continues: a recent Polish‑Ukrainian search in Puzhnyky found no mass grave and a new phase of exhumations and reburials is scheduled to begin on July 13 in former Volyn villages.
- The row over memory follows Kyiv’s decision to name a unit after the UPA and the revocation of Zelenskyy’s Polish honour, and it risks complicating military, reconstruction and humanitarian cooperation between Poland and Ukraine.