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Minsk - Polish Ambassador to Belarus Leszek Szerepka said Poland is not satisfied with Belarus' reaction to the so-called Katyn List inquiry.

“The Katyn List remains an unresolved problem. We do not accept explanations given by Belarus,” Szerepka said at a news conference in Minsk.

“The situation was about the same in Ukraine,” he said.

Szerepka earlier said at a news conference in Minsk that “there is a Polish ‘army of shadows – the so-called Katyn army of more than 20,000 Polish officers killed at Stalin’s order in 1940. They were buried in separate places in Russia and Ukraine.”

“Only Belarus has not a single memorial symbol, although we think that about 4,000 Polish officers, among them officers of Belarusian ethnicity, were killed in Belarus,” he said.

Vladimir Adamushko, director of the Belarusian Justice Ministry’s Archives Department, has denied claims that a Belarusian list of executed Polish officers exists.

“We studied this issue. The so-called Belarusian List does not exist and it probably never existed,” Adamushko earlier said.