Polish PM pledges memorial to victims of WW2 'genocide by Ukrainian nationalists'
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced the creation of a national memorial to the victims of a "genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists" during World War Two.
- Tusk was speaking on the anniversary of what Poland calls the "massacre" in Volyn, the then German-occupied part of Poland, now in Ukraine.
- Warsaw says some 100,000 ethnic Poles were killed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 1943-45.
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- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced the creation of a national memorial to the victims of a "genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists" during World War Two.
- Tusk was speaking on the anniversary of what Poland calls the "massacre" in Volyn, the then German-occupied part of Poland, now in Ukraine.
- Warsaw says some 100,000 ethnic Poles were killed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in 1943-45.
Sources: BBC News