Drobovych: Destroyed memorial plaque on Mount Monastyr in Poland can be restored in a week

This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Anton Drobovych, during a public report on the five years of the UINR's work, Ukrinform reports.

“The destroyed plaque on Mount Monastyr an be restored in a week. If there are people in the great Republic of Poland ready to put an end to this outrage and restore the disgraced Ukrainian place of memory (which will soon be so in Poland for ten years), it can be done within a few days, a week at most,” Drobovych said.

The head of the UINR noted that the situation with Ukrainian burials in Poland shows a number of acts of vandalism, many of which have not been corrected.

“The Ukrainian Greek Catholic community in Przemyśl has been unable to get the cemetery fenced off for a decade to prevent animals from entering. Although the situation is complicated, I do not want to dramatize it,” Drobovych said.

It should be noted that there is a grave of 62 UPA soldiers, two stone crosses from the 1940s with carved images of a trident, and a monument on Mount Monastyr near the village of Wierchrata in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship of Poland, near the border with Ukraine. Vandals smashed the memorial plaque on the grave in 2015 and completely destroyed it in January 2020.