The Ukrainian authorities intend to declassify all the materials of the Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the country concerning the Volyn massacre.

Axar.az reports, citing Ukrainian media, that this was stated on July 17 by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky following a meeting on policy towards Warsaw.

"There will be decisions on the diplomatic track, all archives of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine on the tragic events of the twentieth century in Volhynia will be opened. There will be decisions on additional permits for exploratory exhumation work together with the Polish side," he said on the Telegram channel.

Zelensky stressed his desire to form good-neighborly ties with Poland, but in his statement he skirted the topic of glorification of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army by official Kyiv.

It should be noted that the Volyn tragedy refers to the mass killings of ethnic Polish civilians in the Volyn and Eastern Galicia regions during World War II (1943–1944), carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). According to historical sources, the campaign of ethnic cleansing claimed the lives of around 100,000 Poles. The atrocities took place in Nazi-occupied territories amid competing nationalist territorial claims and longstanding historical tensions.