Kyiv will open all secret service archives linked to the 1943-1944 Volhynia massacres and grant a significant number of new permits for search and exhumation work on sites where victims of Ukrainian nationalist partisans were killed, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Friday.
The move, aimed at resolving a long-standing historical dispute, involves declassifying documents held by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Foreign Intelligence Service. Zelenskyy also agreed with the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory to expand the institution's operational capabilities and increase its funding.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk welcomed Zelenskyy's decisions. The announcement comes weeks after Warsaw revoked Zelenskyy's Order of the White Eagle in a deepening rift over the wartime killings, which historians estimate claimed between 50,000 and 100,000 Polish lives.