Warsaw: Russia has given Poland 11 more dossiers on the 1940 Katyn Forest killings of Polish POWs by the Soviet security service NKVD, local media reported on Thursday.
The documents were handed to Polish embassy officials in Moscow by Saak Karapetian from the Russian General Prosecutor’s Office. Karapetian said some of the documents were classified and contained among others data on the burial sites of the Katyn victims.
The documents concern Russian inquiries into the incident between 1990 and 2004. Russia has given Poland so far 148 of 183 existing Katyn dossiers.
In 1940 in Katyn Forest in today’s western Russia, Soviet security units executed about 22,000 Polish POWs, mostly army officers, policemen, border guards and prison personnel. After the war the Soviets tried to blame the executions on Nazi Germany and admitted to them only after the fall of the USSR.
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