Ukraine's president spoke in 2022 of Olenivka, “a concentration camp where our prisoners are kept”. Read more at straitstimes.com.
OSWIECIM, Poland - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday used the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of building “new camps” while“On the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, let us remember that to the east Putin is building new camps,” Mr Morawiecki said on Facebook.
Mr Morawiecki did not elaborate on his accusation against Russia, though it echoed a claim made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last year. UN investigators also said last year they had documented more than 400 arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances by Russian forces in Ukraine. Attendees included religious leaders, Holocaust survivors and Mr Douglas Emhoff, the Jewish husband of US Vice-President Kamala Harris.
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