Poland Begins WWII Exhumation After Row With Ukraine

Polish researchers exhume the victims of World War II massacres in Ukraine, a sensitive issue that has weighed on relations between the two allies.

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00:00In the quiet forests of western Ukraine, a painful chapter of history is being uncovered.

00:09Polish researchers have begun a delicate mission to exhume the victims of a World War II massacre in the destroyed village of Puzinky.

00:18Around 80 Polish civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in a single night in 1945.

00:26Their remains, buried in a mass grave for nearly 80 years, are now being carefully recovered.

00:36The goal is to identify each victim and offer them a dignified individual burial.

00:43This mission, though scientific, is deeply human, a step toward healing, memory and truth.

00:56For families who still carry the pain, it is a long awaited moment of recognition.