Ukraine: Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Galicia

Ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Galicia Beginning in 1943, the UPA adopted a policy of massacring and expelling the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. The ethnic cleansing operation against the ethnic Polish population began on a large scale in late February of that year and lasted until the end of 1944. In Volhynia deadly acts of aggression, including the mass murder