The joint team launched work at the site of the former Zboiska cemetery, now within Lviv’s city limits.
The Ukrainian culture ministry said the soldiers—of various nationalities—fell in September 1939 during battles against Germany's Wehrmacht troops.
Deputy Culture Minister Andriy Nadzhos said preparations were possible through sustained efforts by both countries, calling wartime remembrance “our values today: dignity, mutual respect and dialogue,” and describing the project as bilateral cooperation to foster a shared understanding of history.
City official Yevhen Boiko said the cemetery existed into the 1960s and was finally liquidated in 1987 during the communist era.
In the 1990s a symbolic wooden cross was erected there bearing a Polish inscription honoring soldiers who died in September 1939.
The exhumations in Zboiska are scheduled to run through August 30.
The ministry added that in May it completed field work at the site of the former village of Puźniki in Ukraine's Ternopil region, locating the remains of 42 people.
Puźniki was where, during the night of February 12–13, 1945, Ukrainian nationalists killed between 50 and 120 Poles.
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Source: PAP, IAR