Tyagnibok Reminded Poles of the Tragedy in the Village of Sahryn

UA NEWS 20 June 2026 18:25

Oleg Tyahnybok, leader of the “Svoboda” All-Ukrainian Union, recalled the events in the village of Sahryn—now a village in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland—where between 600 and 1,240 Ukrainians were killed and tortured to death in March 1944.

“Sagrin is now a village in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland. On March 10, 1944, punitive units of the Polish Home Army and peasant battalions carried out a bloody massacre there, taking the lives of between 800 and 1,240 peaceful Ukrainians. The village was considered relatively safe, so refugees from the surrounding settlements of Kholmshchyna flocked here. “Polish cutthroats burned down the church, parish buildings, and over 260 homes of innocent Ukrainians,” wrote the leader of the “Svoboda” All-Ukrainian Union on his Facebook page.

Tiahnybok recalled that the events of March 10–11, 1944, were the darkest days for the Ukrainian region of Kholmshchyna. At that time, the following Ukrainian villages were attacked:

Andriivka,
Bereziv,
Berest,
Vereshyn,
Laskiv,
Malychi,
Malkiv,
Modryn,
Myagke,
Riplyn,
Sagrin,
Stryzhyvets,
Terebinets,
Terebin,
Turkovychi,
Shykhovychi.

In total, between 1,500 and 2,000 Ukrainians were killed over the course of several weeks during this punitive operation.

Tyagnibok added the recollections of people who were lucky enough to survive that massacre.

Zina Malymon: “I saw a Polish gang attack Sahryn and fire incendiary bullets. My mother Olga, my sister Lida, my aunt Maria L., and I fled to the village. On the way, I was wounded in both legs... After a while, the bandits arrived... They chopped down the door and stormed upstairs. They beat all the men. As they killed them, they cursed them. They herded the women and children into the yard and set the house on fire. They killed my mother, Olga, and my sister, Lida. One of them shot at me. I was wounded in the head and fell down. The bandit fired at me again and hit my arm. I lay there, not moving at all. The bandits thought I was dead and walked away. My sister Lida was only wounded in the arm; she got up and tried to run away. At that moment, a bandit came up and shot her in the head...”

 
Olga Shidlovska: “The gang had local guides. This group of bandits had two young Polish boys as guides—one was 14 and the other 12 years old. These boys showed the bandits Stelmashchuk’s hideout, from which the bandits dragged out nine people and killed them... The young Bilyks led the bandits all over the village and showed them the hiding places...”

 
Rostyslav Savych: “Toward evening, Dad brought more terrible news: my uncle Ivan, his wife Irina, and their two sons—Serhiy, who was 3.5 years old, and two-year-old Volodya—were found murdered in a field. Not far away, a seriously wounded woman had been lying there for three days, with little Nadiya Medvid crawling beside her and suckling at her mother’s breast...”
 
 The history of nations is often complex and bloody, and when people cry out about someone else’s crimes, let them be ready to acknowledge and take responsibility for their own. We honor the memory of others, but we will not allow our own to be trampled upon. Sagryn is our pain, and we will no longer allow it to be silenced.
                                Oleg Tyagnibok
Leader of the All-Ukrainian Union 'Svoboda'                            
 
As a reminder, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent the Order of the White Eagle to Poland via “Nova Poshta.”

The decision to revoke the Order of the White Eagle—Poland’s highest state award—from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a unilateral act by the president. Under Polish procedure, the president may initiate the revocation of an award, but the relevant act requires the countersignature (co-signature) of the Polish prime minister. 
In response to the Polish president’s actions, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga stated that he would return his state award to Poland.
Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov reacted to Polish President Karol Navrotsky’s decision to revoke Poland’s highest state award, the Order of the White Eagle, from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He called the Polish leader a liar and a manipulator.

Read us on Telegram and Sends

Завантажуй наш додаток