Warsaw protests against the damages brought to a Polish military cemetery in Russia. “An attempt to intervene in the presidential elections in Poland”
Poland Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Source: Credit: Heikki Saukkomaa / Sipa Press / Profimedia
Poland protested on Wednesday, against the removal of military symbols from a Polish cemetery in Russia, a move that Warsaw criticized as a “challenge” and an attempt to interfere with Polish presidential elections, AFP reports.
The secret police of the Soviet Union, NKVD, has massacred about 20,000 Polish officers in World War II in the Katyn forest in western Russia, as well as in today's Ukraine or Mednoye, Russia.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday that it received from the Poland Embassy “about the devastation of a Polish monument from the Mednoye War Cemetery.” The institution claims that the Polish military crosses “from a cemetery monument” have been cut “.
“We consider this scandalous challenge not only an attempt to intervene in the presidential elections in Poland, but also a typical Russian strategy to change history,” added the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The second round of the Polish presidential elections will face the pro -European candidate Vafal Trzaskowski, the mayor of Warsaw, and the nationalist Karol Nawrocki on June 1.
The Polish officers, whose remnants were dehumid to Mednoye, had been taken as prisoners by the Soviet army on September 17, 1939, after the invasion in Poland.
For decades, the Soviet Union has put the crimes on the account of Nazi Germany.
“We ask the Russians to immediately restore the cemetery to its original state,” said the Polish Foreign Ministry.
The administration of the cemetery confirmed on its website that it eliminated the military symbols following the “violations of federal law”.
Since the beginning of the Ukraine war, Poland, an ally of Kiev, has accused Russia of hybrid attacks and the orchestration of sabotage operations on the Polish territory.
In May, Poland announced that it had ordered the closing of the Russian consulate in Krakow, accusing Carrot of ordering an incendiary attack on an Warsaw shop in 2024.
Last year, the Polish authorities ordered the closing of the Russian consulate in Poznan, invoking alleged “sabotage” attempts from Moscow in Poland and in the Allied countries.
