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The presidents of Poland and Ukraine will lay the foundation stone for a new Polish military cemetery near Kyiv on Monday. The cemetery is in tribute to Poles murdered by Stalin's secret police (NKVD) during World War II. The graveyard at Bykivnia (Bykownia in Polish) will be part of a much larger complex commemorating victims of various nationalities. It is believed that some 3500 Polish victims of the WWII Katyn Crime were buried at the site in mass graves.

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