“One of the meeting’s main topics was agreeing organizational issues for the next stage of search‑and‑exhumation work on the territories of Ukraine and Poland,” the ministry said after talks led by Ukrainia Deputy Culture Minister Andriy Nadzhos and Polish lawmaker Paweł Kowal.
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory chief Oleksandr Alfiorov also attended.
Both sides welcomed May’s dig in the former Polish village of Puźniki, now in western Ukraine’s Ternopil region, where specialists retrieved the remains of at least 42 women, men and children. Experts believe a second grave still lies nearby.
The ministry said: "One of the key initiatives presented was the creation of a separate platform for attracting international donors to projects protecting Ukraine’s cultural heritage.”
Kowal urged a stronger cultural dimension at next year’s Ukraine Recovery Conference in Warsaw and floated new academic formats, including a Polish‑Ukrainian Historical Congress.
Kyiv has already approved further exhumations in Zboiska, now part of Lviv, where Polish troops fought Germany's Wehrmacht troops in September 1939.
Nadzhos told Poland's PAP news agency on July 11 that Ukraine is waiting for Warsaw’s final green light to begin searches for Ukrainian victims in Jureczkowa, southeastern Poland.
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Source: PAP