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What happened on 27 April 2025 in Puźniki?
Summary
A look back at the start of a Polish excavation of a wartime mass grave, days after a car bombing near Moscow.
What did Polish investigators begin on 27 April 2025? They started excavating a World War II mass grave in Puźniki, which contains victims of the Volhynia massacres. In those killings, Ukrainian nationalists murdered around 100,000 civilians, predominantly Polish.
The excavation was the focus of that day's reporting on the history shared by Poland and Ukraine.
Security news two days earlier
On 25 April 2025, two days before the dig began, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik was assassinated in a car bombing in Balashikha, in Moscow Oblast, Russia. He was deputy head of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. The attack was listed among attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
