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Remains of 55 Volhynia Massacre Victims Exhumed

Risingcorroborated12 outlets reported this themselves in 47 reports over 28 days - more reporting than echo.
Sat, 8 August 2026peak 5 reports on Sun, 30 August 2026Thu, 22 October 2026

What it is about

Institute of National RemembranceOstrówkiWola OstrowieckaUkraińskie władzeInstytut Pamięci NarodowejWołyniuIPNUkrainaHuty PieniackiejHucie PieniackiejVolhynieUkraineKievVarsovieUkraińcyPolakówPolacyOstrówekUkrainian nationalistsOstrowki

Who published it, and when

original reportfirst to report
Kyiv Post (Ukraine)1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report
Polsat News (Poland)1 original report1 original report1 original report
RMF24 (Poland)1 original report2 original reports1 original report2 original reports1 original report1 original report
Le Monde (France)1 original report
Wirtualna Polska (Poland)1 original report2 original reports1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report
Le Monde English1 original report
Ukrinform (Ukraine)1 original report2 original reports1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report
Notes from Poland1 original report1 original report1 original report1 original report2 original reports
iDNES (Czechia)1 original report
Index.hr (Croatia)1 original report
Anadolu Agency (AA)1 original report
Novinky (Czechia)1 original report
8 Aug, 10:46over 2 months22 Oct, 15:07

How it spread - 47 original reports

  1. Sat, 8 August 2026

    2 reports
    • Kyiv Post (Ukraine)10:46first to report

      Following four weeks of excavation work, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), alongside Ukrainian experts, recovered the remains of 55 victims of the Volhynia massacres at the sites of the former villages of Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka in western Ukraine. The victims, primarily women and children under the age of 12, were found in mass graves showing forensic evidence of executions, including gunshot wounds and blunt force trauma. Investigators also recovered over 300 personal...

    • Polsat News (Poland)18:12

      Ukraińskie władze wydały zgodę na ekshumacje szczątków polskich ofiar w Hucie Pieniackiej i Ugłach na Wołyniu - poinformował tamtejszy Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. To część realizacji obietnicy złożonej kilkanaście dni temu przez ukraińskiego prezydenta Wołodymyra Zełenskiego.

  2. Thu, 20 August 2026

    3 reports
  3. Sat, 22 August 2026

    2 reports
    • Wirtualna Polska (Poland)05:08

      Mordowano Polaków na Wołyniu? Tak, ale nie u nas. W naszej wsi było spokojnie. Gdzie indziej stali za tym Sowieci, a wy, Polacy, też byliście okrutni - tak twierdzą Ukraińcy mieszkający w pobliżu Ostrówek, wsi, w której byliśmy, kiedy Instytut Pamięci Narodowej przeprowadzał ekshumacje ofiar Rzezi Wołyńskiej. - Brakiem wrażliwości byłoby odwracanie głowy i pozostawienie naszych rodaków zakopanych w ziemi - mówi w trakcie czyszczenia szczątków pracowniczka IPN.

    • Le Monde English17:00

      In the former villages of Wola Ostrowiecka and Ostrowki in western Ukraine, archaeologists and historians have been exhuming the bodies of Polish civilians massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943. More than 80 years later, this painful past still weighs on diplomatic relations between Kyiv and Warsaw.

  4. Tue, 25 August 2026

    1 report
  5. Wed, 26 August 2026

    2 reports
  6. Sun, 30 August 2026

    5 reports
  7. Mon, 31 August 2026

    1 report
  8. Tue, 1 September 2026

    1 report
    • Polsat News (Poland)18:54

      Polska zgodziła się na przeprowadzenie prac poszukiwawczych na terenie wsi Łasków na Chełmszczyźnie - ogłosił wiceminister kultury Ukrainy Iwan Werbycki. Region ten jest prawdopodobnym miejscem pochówku ukraińskich cywilów zabitych w 1944 roku. Kijów od miesięcy czekał na decyzje w tej sprawie.

  9. Wed, 2 September 2026

    1 report
  10. Thu, 3 September 2026

    2 reports
    • Ukrinform (Ukraine)01:31

      The remains of 17 soldiers of the Polish Army and seven German servicemen have been discovered and exhumed by a team of Ukrainian and Polish specialists during excavation and search operations at the Holoskivske Cemetery in Lviv.

    • Wirtualna Polska (Poland)04:35

      Na starym Cmentarzu Hołoskowskim we Lwowie ekshumowano dotychczas szczątki 17 żołnierzy Wojska Polskiego i siedmiu armii niemieckiej - poinformowała Rada Miejska Lwowa. Prace ekshumacyjne, prowadzone wspólnie przez polski i ukraiński IPN, rozpoczęły się 25 sierpnia i potrwają do początku października 2026 r.

  11. Sat, 5 September 2026

    1 report
  12. Mon, 7 September 2026

    2 reports
  13. Thu, 10 September 2026

    1 report
    • Wirtualna Polska (Poland)01:25

      W czwartek odbędą się uroczystości pogrzebowe dziesięciorga polskich dzieci, które w trakcie II wojny światowej straciły życie w niemieckim obozie izolacyjnym w Łodzi. Szczątki ofiar, ekshumowane przez Biuro Poszukiwań i Identyfikacji IPN, spoczną na łódzkim cmentarzu przy ul. Przemysłowej.

  14. Sun, 13 September 2026

    1 report
  15. Wed, 16 September 2026

    1 report
    • Kyiv Post (Ukraine)10:14

      Following Ukraine’s liberation of Izyum in September 2022, investigators exhumed 449 bodies from a forest burial site, many bearing signs of torture, execution, or violent death. Researchers at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab used satellite imagery to map more than 55,000 square meters of burial-related excavation and Russian military activity. Four years later, Ukrainian prosecutors have identified 15 suspects allegedly involved in the arrests, torture, and killings carried out during the...

  16. Fri, 18 September 2026

    1 report
  17. Tue, 22 September 2026

    1 report
  18. Tue, 29 September 2026

    3 reports
    • Notes from Poland12:04

      The owner of the painting has donated it to Warsaw's National Museum after learning of its provenance.

    • Kyiv Post (Ukraine)13:50

      On Sept. 29, 1941, the Nazi occupation forces gathered Kyiv’s Jews and brought them to a ravine on the outskirts of the city – to be summarily shot and buried. In two days more than 30,000 were killed. Thus began one of the biggest mass slaughters of the Holocaust. By the end of the war more than 100,000 Kyivans were buried there.

    • Ukrinform (Ukraine)20:26

      For more than a month, Ukrainian and Polish specialists have been examining a burial site at the old Holosko Cemetery in Lviv where servicemen of the Polish Army and soldiers of the German Wehrmacht who fell in the fighting for Lviv in September 1939 were buried.

  19. Fri, 2 October 2026

    1 report
  20. Mon, 5 October 2026

    2 reports
  21. Tue, 6 October 2026

    1 report
  22. Mon, 12 October 2026

    1 report
  23. Thu, 15 October 2026

    1 report
  24. Fri, 16 October 2026

    1 report
  25. Mon, 19 October 2026

    1 report
    • Kyiv Post (Ukraine)14:29

      Ukrainian researchers uncovered the remains of approximately 30 Ukrainian civilians killed in 1944 at an Orthodox cemetery in Łasków, eastern Poland, following search permits granted by Polish authorities. The operation mirrors parallel summer excavations in Volhynia that recovered 55 Polish victims killed in 1943, marking operational progress under a bilateral dignified burials framework established in late 2024. The depoliticized system allows mutual forensic access, exhumations, and...

  26. Tue, 20 October 2026

    3 reports
  27. Thu, 22 October 2026

    5 reports

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