Around 100,000 ethnic Poles are believed to have been killed in the Volhynia massacres.
Around 100,000 ethnic Poles are believed to have been killed in the Volhynia massacres.
Work will take place in three former Polish villages where residents were massacred by Ukrainian nationalists.
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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.