The Kremlin"s invitation to Poland"s premier...
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin invited his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk on Wednesday to attend a memorial service in April to mark the 1940 massacre. Tusk confirmed his participation in the event later in the day.
Bogdan Borusewicz said it was "an important signal from the Kremlin," and complicated bilateral ties "are increasingly improving." Borusewicz will visit Moscow on February 9 at the invitation of his Russian counterpart, Sergei Mironov.
Over 20,000 Polish officers, police and civilians taken prisoner during the 1939 partitioning of Poland by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were killed in western Russia"s Katyn forest, as well as in prisons and other locations, by the NKVD, the forerunner of the KGB.
The Soviet Union acknowledged the massacre in 1990. Modern Russia also recognized Soviet responsibility for the mass shooting, but has not classified it as a war crime, something Warsaw has demanded.