BBC News - #Zelensky honours #Poles killed by #Ukrainians in WW2 #Volhynia massacre
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66150790

#Volhynia Massacres 80 Years Ago - #Ukraine and #Poland Presidents Set Example of Understanding and Solidarity

Showing maturity in addressing a divisive issue with class

by Bohdan Nahaylo

Extract

for many Poles this is a sad day of remembrance for the tens of thousands of victims of massacres which took place 80 years ago in the north-western Ukrainian region of Volhynia, largely Poles, and for which they blame the Ukrainians – and Ukrainians, the Poles

Read it here🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/19268

@Left_Indy Hah, I dislike bringing #Volhynia into this discussion, because it's a whole 'nother can of worms. On one hand, it's an inexcusable atrocity, and Ukraine absolutely should own up to that. On the other, 2nd Polish Republic did their best to antagonize Ukrainians, and that's not even mentioning centuries of history during which Polish "colonial" nobility lorded it over a subjugated population (of course, ethnic Polish peasantry a bit to the west didn't have it any better, but that's nationalism for ya :/ ) - so Poland should not approach this from our traditional martyrological point of view either.

@foresterr I'm half Polish myself and know enough about the #Ukrainian slaughter of #Poles in #Volhynia and Eastern #Galicia to know it's never a good idea to blindly accept what Ukraine has to say about anything.

That said, I don't think Mr. Mercouris is free of bias, but he does seem to be approaching the topic with much less of it than the usual analytic players have thus far expressed. Bear in mind that in war conditions change on a daily basis and nobody has the entire picture.