Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory is a government agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine tasked with shaping and implementing state policy on the restoration and preservation of the national memory of the Ukrainian people. It conducts research on Ukrainian history, including the Holodomor of 1932–1933, political repressions, and the struggle for independence, and oversees commemoration of those events. The institute also works on historical terminology, matters related to national symbols and toponyms, and public history education.
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Ukrainian search expedition finds about 30 remains of 1944 massacre victims in Polish village of Laskiv
A Ukrainian search expedition discovered approximately 30 sets of human remains at an Orthodox cemetery in the village of Laskiv in Poland's Lublin Voivodeship. The remains are identified as Ukrainians killed in a March 1944 attack by units of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and Peasant Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie). The dig was commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and carried out by the communal enterprise 'Dolya' under a Polish permit issued in August 2026.
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Ukraine's cabinet backs monument to Hetman Mazepa in central Kyiv on site of dismantled Lenin statue
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has endorsed a Ministry of Culture proposal to erect a monument to Hetman Ivan Mazepa on Taras Shevchenko Boulevard in Kyiv, on the site of the Lenin monument toppled during the Euromaidan in 2013. The initiative was put forward by President Volodymyr Zelensky in June and is being implemented under a presidential decree.