Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was a Ukrainian paramilitary and partisan formation that fought during and after the Second World War, primarily in the western regions of Ukraine then under German occupation and later annexed by the Soviet Union. Founded in 1942 as the armed wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), it fought both Nazi German forces and, after 1943, Soviet forces, and it was also involved in the ethnic conflict against Polish civilians and the Polish Home Army in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. The UPA was subordinate to the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR) and was led militarily by a Main Military Commanders headed by Roman Shukhevych. After the war, its remnants continued armed resistance against Soviet rule into the early 1950s.
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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.