Overview
- On January 17, 2026, diplomats laid wreaths and flowers at the Memorial Cemetery of Soviet Soldiers to mark the 81st anniversary of Warsaw’s 1945 liberation.
- Participants included the Belarusian diplomatic mission and Polish veteran and civic groups, while representatives of the Polish authorities were absent.
- The Russian delegation was led by acting chargé d’affaires Andrey Ordash, with Belarus’s acting chargé A. V. Ponkratenko and Russia’s trade representative A. Yu. Morozov also named.
- RIA Novosti reported that the ceremony passed without the pro‑Ukrainian provocations seen in some previous years.
- The cemetery on Żwirki i Wigury Street opened in 1950, spans about 19.2 hectares, and contains roughly 21.5–22 thousand Soviet burials; Russian officials emphasized safeguarding the WWII historical record, and Ordash said most Soviet monuments in Poland have been removed since 2014.