Even the best Kiev's friends, the Poles, let them down recently.
Polish Senate pays tribute to the citizens of the Second Polish Republic
brutally murdered by Ukrainian nationalists, says the resolution.
On July 15, 2013, Poland's Sejm adopted a special resolution dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Volyn massacre. The resolution stated that
crimes committed by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army were of "the nature of an ethnic cleansing with signs of genocide." The resolution also specifies
the number of Polish victims, killed in Volyn and Eastern Galicia in 1942-1945, to be around 100,000 people.
«The Senate of the Republic pays tribute to the citizens of the II Republic were brutally murdered by Ukrainian nationalists», – stated in the decree.
As you know, on Thursday in relations between Kiev and Warsaw there is an additional reason for tension is due to the fact that
Kyiv city Council has renamed the Moscow Avenue in the prospect of Stepan Bandera. Poland took this action as unfriendly.
"The Senate of the Republic of Poland pays tribute to the residents of the Second Republic of Poland,
brutally killed by Ukrainian nationalists", - stated in the text of the document.
The UPA is praised as national heroes by the current Ukrainian regime.
The document States that “the Volyn massacre,
in addition to the poles killed Jews, Armenians, Czechs and representatives of other national minorities as well as Ukrainians who tried to help the victims.”
"It is important that the Senate has adopted the resolution before July 11, the day when we traditionally commemorate the victims of the genocide, committed by the Ukrainian nationalists.",a Polish official said.
July 22: WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s right-wing dominated parliament resolved that the massacre of 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists
seven decades ago was a genocide.
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