Polish President draws comparison between Bucha atrocity in Ukraine and Stalin-era massacre

Polish President Andrzej Duda marked the 80th anniversary of the Katyn massacre by drawing comparisons between the atrocity and the killing of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, a town where Russian troops are alleged to have committed war crimes.

In 1940, Soviet secret police killed thousands of Polish army officers in the Katyn forest.

The Kremlin denied responsibility until 1990. Duda laid a wreath in Warsaw in memory of the victims, saying “Today we look on in horror at… all the records and video and photos coming out of Bucha and other places in Russian-occupied Ukraine where people were murdered the same way, in the Katyn manner.”

Russian forces are accused of killing around 1,400 civilians in Bucha last year.