"The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were part of an ethnic cleansing operation carried out in Nazi German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) against Poles in the area of Volhynia, Polesia, Lublin region and Eastern Galicia beginning in 1943 and lasting up to 1945 The peak of the genocide took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children UPA's methods were particularly brutal, with many of the victims being tortured and mutilated, and resulted in 40,000-60,000 Polish deaths in Volhynia and 30,000-40,000 in Eastern Galicia, with the other regions for the total about 100,000."
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