Between 1942 and 1945 it was one of many sites of massacres of Poles and Jews committed by the death squads of Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the local Ukrainian peasants . Notably , the Ukrainian sotnia led by Hryrory Levko ( " Kruk " ) operated in the area until 1947 , long after the Soviet counter-offensive of 1944 . The Polish self-defence in Młynów managed to hold back the repeated raids by the Ukrainian nationalists as one of only several such outpost , which also included the civilian defence of Kurdybań Warkowicki , Lubomirka , Klewań , Rokitno , Budki Snowidowickie , and Osty . Their survival could be at least partly explained by the Nazi German presence there before the Soviet takeover . During the Polish population transfers ( 1944 – 46 ) the remaining Polish inhabitants of Mlyniv have been expelled
massacres of Poles and Jews
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
Mlyniv