Overview
- Polish and Polish media reports said President Karol Nawrocki presented Zelensky with a two‑volume set titled Documents of the Volyn Massacre, but Kyiv’s office said no gift was given and that no exchange was planned.
- TVN24 reported journalists identified the volumes on the table before the leaders’ one‑on‑one, while Ukraine said a book was in the room but its origin was unclear.
- Nawrocki said after the December 19 Warsaw meeting that he raised exhumations of Volyn victims and criticized what he called Ukrainian ingratitude for Polish assistance.
- The collection was edited and published by Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance in 2023–2024, drawing on the Shum archive and the so‑called Green and Brown books with many signed eyewitness testimonies.
- Poland recognizes the 1943–44 killings as genocide and marks July 11 as a national day of remembrance, a status formalized in 2025.