Monitoring Desk
SWIECIM: On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of building new camps while launching the war against Ukraine.
PM Morawiecki said in a post on Facebook, “On the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, let us remind that to the east, Putin is building new camps.”
“Consistent support and solidarity for Ukraine can ensure that history does not come full circle,” the Polish PM added. The Polish PM did not elaborate on his accusation against Russia, though it resounds a claim made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year.
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In an address in October, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of Olenivka, “a concentration camp where our prisoners are detained.”
UN investigators also maintained last year, they had documented over 400 arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances by Russian troops in Ukraine.
On Friday, Poland marked the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau at the site of the former camp in Oswiecim city.
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Attendees included Holocaust survivors, religious leaders, and Douglas Emhoff, the Jewish husband of the United States (US) Vice President Kamala Harris.
The Auschwitz museum had earlier informed that Russia had not been invited to this year’s commemoration given its “aggression against an independent and free Ukraine.”
