Ukraine previously banned exhumations, but last year allowed them to resume in a diplomatic breakthrough.
Ukraine previously banned exhumations, but last year allowed them to resume in a diplomatic breakthrough.
Around 100,000 ethnic Poles are believed to have been killed in the Volhynia massacres.
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The Volhynia massacres of ethnic Poles by Ukrainian nationalists has long caused tensions between the two countries.
Several cities refused to host the statue, which depicts a baby being impaled on a Ukrainian trident.
During the Volhynia massacres, Ukrainian nationalists murdered up to 100,000 ethnic Poles.
The heads of Poland’s Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church signed a joint declaration on the Volhynia massacres.
The Volhynia massacres saw Ukrainian nationalists kill tens of thousands of ethnic Polish civilians during World War Two.
“We are extremely critical towards any glorification or even remembrance of Bandera,” said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.