A symbolic ceremony is taking place in Katyń, to commemorate the prisoners of war murdered by the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) in 1940.
It is a part of the Polish commemoration of the tragedy. Since the morning, lights have Bern burning at the Polish War Cemetery.
Polish diplomats in Moscow and representatives of the Polish community in Russia will lay wreaths in Katyń today.
The Franciscan Father Anioł, curate of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Smoleńsk, also came to the ceremony.
He told the Polish Radio that Katyń should not only be a place of memory, but also a place where the agreement between Poland and Russia should happen.
In 1940, the NKVD murdered around 4400 Polish officers in Katyń, Russia. After the Germans revealed the mass-murder to the world, the Soviet government put the blame on them.
In 1990, the Soviet government officially acknowledged NKVD’s responsibility for the murder, but the topic remains a bone of contention between Poland and Russia.