Russia has expressed skepticism about former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's allegations that the body sent by the Russian authorities to Poland is not that of his brother, who was killed in a plane crash near Smolensk on April 10.
"It’s not true," an informed source in Moscow told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Polish officials were present at all stages of the identification," the source said.
Some Western media earlier reported that Jaroslaw Kaczynski doubts that the body buried in Krakow’s Wawel Castle is that of his brother Lech Kaczynski. Jaroslaw Kaczynski told reporters he had identified his brother by a scar on his shoulder, but the body sent to Poland from Russia did not resemble that of his brother.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski has not yet decided whether he will seek for the remains to be exhumed.
The plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashed near Smolensk on April 10, 2010. All the 96 people on broad were killed. The high-ranking Polish officials were en route to the mourning events held in Katyn, where NKVD officials killed Polish servicemen in 1940.
