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Four Polish children affixed with nails and bound to a tree with barbed wire at the village of Łobozowa (Tarnopol Voivodship), part of large-scale massacres of Poles in Volhynia (in prewar southeastern Poland) by Ukrainians in 1943.



The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Template:Lang-ua) was a Ukrainian guerrilla army formed on October 14, 1942, in Volhynia. The UPA was the military branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The main goal of the UPA was an independent Ukraine. Its leaders were Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera.

The UPA fought a broad spectrum of military forces in the area: the German Wehrmacht, the Polish Armia Krajowa and