Russia summoned Polish ambassador

The Foreign Ministry of Russia summoned Poland's ambassador Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz on Thursday to express its discontent over the removal of a Soviet-era statue of Soviet General Ivan Chernyakhovsky in the Polish town of Pieniężno. Russia protested against the removal of the statute and asked the ambassador to stop the process. "I listened to it, I presented the Polish position on the issue that the whole process is 100 percent according to Polish law," Pełczyńska-Nałęcz said. Chernyakhovsky was the Red Army general nicknamed "the executioner" in some parts of Poland, because he was among those responsible for disarming and arresting thousands of Polish underground army soldiers towards the end of the war, many of whom were sent to Soviet prisons or labor camps, and died there. Thursday marked the 76th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.