MOSCOW – A monument to the victims of a World War II massacre in a western Ukrainian village has been destroyed by vandals, local police said on Jan. 10.
National Police in the Lviv region said in a statement that vandals destroyed a stone cross in Huta Penyatska that commemorated Polish villagers who were massacred in 1944 by a Nazi unit mostly composed of Ukrainian volunteers. Up to 900 people are believed to have been killed in the village, according to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance.
