Volyn region
Volyn Region or
Volynskaya Oblast is the most northwestern administrative district of present-day
Ukraine bordering
Belarus to the north and
Poland to the west. The capital of the oblast is Lutsk, Kovel is the most westernly town and terminus of the Ukrainian rail line that runs from Kovel through to
Kiev. Volyn was once part of
Poland and once part of the
Russian Empire when it was called the
Volynskaya Guberniya.
During World War II, a Ukrainian nationalist organisation organized ethnic cleansing in Volyn, which resulted in the death of 30,000-60,000 Poles in Volyn alone. In fighting with Polish self-defense units and in Polish retaliation actions around 2,500 Ukrainians died.
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