WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will send a note to Russian authorities to demand an inquiry into the devastation of monuments commemorating Polish Home Army soldiers in the town of Yogla in eastern Russia, the Polish foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Relations between Poland and Russia are tense, especially since Moscow invaded neighbouring Ukraine in 2022.
“This is a place where former prisons, gulags were located, to which people from different parts of the world were sent, including Polish soldiers,” Polish foreign ministry spokesperson Pawel Wronski said.
“And there were monuments commemorating prisoners, but they were not just monuments, they stand on the graves of people who died there from hunger, exhaustion, repression and diseases.”
Wronski added that Poland is asking Russia whether an inquiry will be launched and if perpetrators would be punished.
The Russian embassy in Warsaw did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Alan Charlish, editing by Ed Osmond)
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