Russian President Vladimir Putin is “building new concentration camps in Eastern Europe”, accused Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of liberation Soviet Army a of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, the date of commemoration of the victims of the Holocaust, AFP and Agerpres inform.

“On the day of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, let’s remember that (Russian President Volodymyr) Putin is going to build new camps in the east,” Moravetskyi wrote on his Facebook page, urging support for Ukraine because history will not repeat itself.

The head of the Polish government did not make further statements regarding his accusations against Russia, which echo the October statements of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. Then he mentioned the Oleniv prison in the eastern regions of Ukraine, which is in the hands of pro-Russian separatists, which he called a “concentration camp where our prisoners are kept.”

Last year, UN investigators said they had collected information on more than 400 arbitrary detentions and disappearances orchestrated by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Various organizations and institutions, in turn, condemned attacks on the civilian population, the conditions of detention of civilians and prisoners of war, the forced transfer or filtering of Ukrainian citizens, including children, to Russia, as well as murders and sexual violence comparable to executions. .

“We must firmly and together confront the criminal demons who are committing genocide in Eastern Europe,” insisted Moravetskyi.

This year, representatives of Russia were not invited

Unlike previous years, this year representatives of Russia were not invited to the celebrations on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Among the participants of these celebrations were religious leaders who survived the Holocaust, as well as Douglas Emhoff, a Jew, the husband of the American Vice President Kamala Harris.

Built in occupied Poland, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where one million European Jews died out of a total of six million killed in 1940-1945, is a symbol of this genocide committed by Nazi Germany.

This Nazi camp, where around 80,000 non-Jewish Poles, 25,000 Roma and 20,000 Soviet soldiers were also killed, was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945.

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