The Sejm of Poland urged Ukraine to admit guilt in the Volyn massacre

The Sejm of Poland adopted a resolution stating that Kyiv must admit its guilt in the Volyn massacre for the Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation. This was reported on the website of the lower house of the Polish Parliament.

“Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation, which has been built over the years by representatives of both peoples, should also include the recognition of guilt and the perpetuation of the memory of the victims of World War II,” the document, adopted on the 80th anniversary of the Volyn massacre, says.

The resolution notes that on July 11, 1943, “Bloody Sunday” took place in Volyn, which was the “culmination” of the genocide carried out by the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) from the beginning of 1943. On this day, nationalist detachments attacked 99 settlements of the modern Volyn region of Ukraine, in which ethnic Poles lived.

According to the Sejm, more than 100,000 Poles became victims of the genocide. Another “several hundred thousand” were forced to leave the region. In 2016, the lower house of the Polish parliament recognized the Volhynia massacre as a genocide. From that moment on, July 11 is the national day of remembrance for the victims of the genocide of Polish citizens by Ukrainian nationalists.

The day before, July 11, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that Warsaw “betrayed the memory of the victims of the Volyn tragedy” because it supplies Kyiv with weapons. According to him, Kyiv, instead of recognizing “the actions of Bandera as genocide of the Polish population,” elevated those responsible for the crimes to heroes.