Ukraine interested in speeding up search efforts in Volyn – Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine is interested in accelerating search efforts in villages where victims of the Volyn tragedy may be buried. [The Volyn (Volhynia) tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during World War II.

It was part of a long-standing rivalry between Ukrainians and Poles in what is now Ukraine's west.

Poland considers the Volyn tragedy a genocide of Poles – ed.] ...