Work will take place in three former Polish villages where residents were massacred by Ukrainian nationalists.
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Ukraine grants permission for further exhumation of Polish WWII massacre victims
Over 100 Poles were killed by Ukrainian nationalists in the village of Ugły in 1943 as part of the broader Volhynia massacres.
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