Poland Signals Breakthrough in Feud With Ukraine That Put EU Ambitions at Risk

Rift over Volhynia risked Ukraine’s ambitions for EU accession
Some 100,000 Poles killed in what is now western Ukraine

Radoslaw Sikorski, right, and Andrii Sybiha in Warsaw on Nov. 26.
Photographer: Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images

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By Piotr Skolimowski

November 27, 2024 at 4:50 AM EST

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Kyiv has agreed to allow the exhumation of ethnic Poles killed in World War II massacres, clearing the path to resolve a rift between the two countries.

The breakthrough over the 80-year-old massacres in territory now belonging to Ukraine took place at a meeting between Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha in Warsaw on Tuesday.