Ukrainian authorities have reburied near the capital, Kiev, the bodies of some 2,000 people killed by the Soviet secret police more than 60 years ago.
Relatives of the victims watched as red coffins were lowered into graves and blessed by a priest at the ceremony.
The bodies, including 474 Poles, were dug up this year in Bykovnya, where tens of thousands are thought to have been dumped during the 1930s and 1940s.
Under Communist rule, the existence of the mass graves in Ukraine was denied.
It was only in the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, that the mass graves were acknowledged and memorials built.Memories
About 100 people including relatives of the victims attended the sombre ceremony in a forest outside of Kiev on Saturday.
One of those attending, Maria Marzhetska, said her father had been seized in 1937. She only discovered his fate 60 years later.
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