Ukrainian and Polish experts did not find any new mass graves during the search operations that lasted from November 4 to 7 in the former village of Pozhniki in the Ternopil region, writes the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
Experts laid about 40 search trenches, but no human remains were found.
At the same time, the remains of the old road, the foundations of the cemetery chapel, a part of the old cemetery burial and the remains of an external building were discovered.
Pozniki is a former village in the Ternopil region, where the Poles lived compactly before World War II. In February 1945, the settlement suffered an armed attack, during which some of the residents died, and the village burned down.
In June of that year, the villagers were transferred to Poland, and in 1949, the Soviet authorities officially destroyed the village. Since then, its territory remained uninhabited and gradually grew into a forest.
Photo: Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance / Facebook.