Russia protests demolition of Soviet war memorials in Poland
'War on monuments' escalates between Moscow and Warsaw
10 July, 19:00Friday's protest concerns a memorial in the town of Pieniezno dedicated to Soviet Gen. Ivan Chernyakhovsky, who was fatally wounded at the site in February 1945.
Soviet war memorials have fallen into disrepair and been regularly vandalized in Poland, where the Soviet role in World War II is viewed with ambiguity or outright hostility. In Russia, the official narrative is that the Red Army liberated Poland from Nazi occupation.
Russia says the demolition of war monuments in Poland violates a 1994 agreement between the two countries. (ANSA-AP).