According to him, since 2020, nine requests have been sent to Ukraine on the issue of exhumation, but no response has been received.
“The lack of consent to bury the victims of the Volyn genocide is a problem that cannot be transferred to the current situation, even a tragic and dramatic one,” Navrotsky said in an interview with the PAP agency.
He recalled that Ukraine had recently agreed to the exhumation of 74 Wehrmacht soldiers killed on its territory during the Great Patriotic War.
Navrotsky stressed that even a consent to the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn massacre “would show the good will of the Ukrainian side.”
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba was asked about the timing of the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn massacre in Ukraine. In response, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated the need to “perpetuate the memory of Ukrainians,” referring to the monument to the servicemen of the “Ukrainian Insurgent Army” (recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) demolished by the Polish authorities. Following this, Polish Sejm member Janusz Kowalski called for Kuleba to be declared persona non grata.
