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Thursday, August 25, 2022
Poland says graves of WWII soldiers destroyed by Belarus
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePoland’s government alleges that authorities in Belarus are leveling a memorial site containing the graves of Polish soldiers who died during World War II.
Lukasz Jasina, the spokesman for Poland’s Foreign Ministry, says on Twitter that a cemetery in Surkonty, Belarus, where members of Poland’s largest wartime resistance force battled Soviet army troops, is being “devastated by the services of the Minsk regime.”
“Those who think that the human memory of heroes can be eradicated are very mistaken. The regime will pay for these acts of barbarism,” Jasina writes.
The regime began to demolish entire military cemeteries. This morning, the graves of Polish soldiers were destroyed in the village of Surkanty in the Hrodna region. This is the dictator's revenge on Poland for its principled and brave position to defend democracy in #Belarus pic.twitter.com/90gbV1hn3A
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) August 25, 2022
The allegation come a day after the Polish government said it was demolishing a monument to Soviet Red Army soldiers in Poland, one of dozens marked for destruction since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine six months ago.
There is no immediate comment from Belarus, and it is not clear if the developments are related. Belarus has destroyed other Polish memorial sites in the past.
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