Ambassador Vasyl Bodnar told Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform that both sides had reached agreements and Kyiv was ready to authorize the work in the coming weeks.
"We have relevant agreements that are being implemented," Bodnar said, according to Ukrinform. "We hope that work will continue in other areas requested by the Ukrainian and Polish sides. The Ukrainian side is ready for this and will issue permits in the near future."
He cited Huta Peniatska in the Lviv region and Uhly in the Rivne region, where Polish victims of Ukrainian nationalist killings are buried in what is now western Ukraine.
Bodnar also shared details of ongoing searches in the southeastern Polish village of Jureczkowa, where specialists from Ukraine’s Institute of National Memory are looking for the remains of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fighters.
The work began on Tuesday and is expected to last about three weeks.
"We are pleased with Poland's assistance in conducting search operations in Jureczkowa, and all the necessary conditions for the work have been created," Bodnar said, adding that it is too early to talk about the results of the work.
He told Ukrinform that Poland had provided "everything necessary" for the work to be carried out, including assistance from Poland's Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), local authorities, police and others services.
Earlier this year, Polish teams exhumed remains in the former village of Puźniki in Ukraine’s Ternopil region, where Ukrainian nationalists killed between 50 and 120 Poles in February 1945. The remains of at least 42 victims were recovered and reburied in September.
Ukrainian authorities also issued permits for the exhumation of Polish Army soldiers killed in the 1939 defence of Lviv, where the remains of at least 31 people were found in the former village of Zboiska, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
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Source: PAP, ukrinform.net