President Andrzej Duda attends a ceremony at the Katyn Cross to mark the 85th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre on 13 April, the Day of Remembrance for Victims of the Katyn Massacre.Photo: PAP ...

The Katyn massacre was ordered on 5 March 1940 by the Soviet Politburo, resulting in the execution of thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals by the NKVD secret police. Approximately 3,500 ...

Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has said Europe needs to show the same resolve and bravery in the face of Russian ...

MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. The German military in January 1943 shot Polish soldiers and officers in the USSR’s Smolensk Region and then buried their bodies in the Katyn forest, according to ...

The massacre represents one of the most painful chapters of the Polish-Ukrainian history and has continued to strain mutual relations to this day. UPA fighters are believed to have killed between ...

On March 17, Jankowski met with a Russian officer and informed him that Polish political parties wanted to start official activity and therefore they would like to meet with a Russian military ...

This is the first such operation by Polish and Ukrainian teams of forensic ... addressing not only the Volhynia Massacre but also other historical incidents, including Stalinist atrocities and ...

3 April 1940 Andrzej is transported from the prison camp in Kozelsk to the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers are killed ... start blaming the Katyn Massacre on the Germans ...