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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Protesters in Russia try to disrupt Poland's commemoration of president's plane crash

Poland Plane Crash Anniversary - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Poland's ambassador to Russia said a small group of Russians tried to disrupt a commemoration on Thursday marking the 15th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczyński and 95 other people.

The protesters held banners and chanted anti-Polish slogans as Krzysztof Krajewski, the Polish ambassador to Russia, led the event in Smolensk, Russia, where the plane crashed on April 10, 2010, he told RMF FM radio.

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