Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the monument of prisoners of prisoners – victims of the Katyn massacre, buried at the Polish war cemetery in Mednoje in Russia, was devastated. The prosecutor's office of the Tver District issued a decision under which The bas -relief of the Virtutti Militari and Cross of the September Campaign 1939 was sought from the monument.
As a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a press conference, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was given a note on the devastation of the monument. – The note expresses amazement and disbelief with the fact of devastating the monument at the Polish war cemetery in Miednoje. We emphasize that this is not about the act of vandalism, but for the first time the Russian state was officially involved in this kind of activity – emphasized Paweł Wroński.
“Categorical protest” of the Polish ambassador
– at the end of the note The Polish embassy expresses a categorical protest against the Russian authorities' allowance of the destruction of the elements of the Polish war cemetery in Miednoje and calls for immediate restoration of this object to its original state and to take actions aimed at protecting the resting places of the victims of war and repression – noted the spokesman of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Wroński also added that the Russian side based on a contract with the Polish government on the graves and memorial sites from 1994 She is obliged to provide protection for Polish rest and memory on her territory.
