The remains of a further 55 victims of massacres of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during World War Two have been exhumed in Ukraine. There, on 30 August 1943, the UPA massacred over 1,000 Poles and razed the villages to the ground. Exhumations previously took place in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka in the 1990s, and again in 2011 and 2015, uncovering the remains of hundreds of victims. Around 300 personal items, including rosaries, crosses and clothing, were also found during the recent excavations in Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka. Poland has for the first time used DNA testing to identify the remains of Poles massacred by Ukrainian nationalists in WWII.