Lech kaczynski, 60, who died today, along with his wife
According to the Polish Foreign Ministry, a Russian plane crash today saw all 87 passengers on board killed, including Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife.
The Polish Deputy Finance Minister Andrzej Kremer was also killed in the crash, which took place in the fog 1.5 kilometers from Smolensk airport, in Russia.
Russian News agency, Russia-24, interviewed a local Governer, who reported that “”There were no survivors,” after the plane “crashed down and broke into pieces.”
The Polish President was flying to Russia to commererate the death of over 22,000 Poles in Karyn under the Soviet regime 70 years ago.
In This Story: Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces, covering an area of 312,696 square kilometres, and has a largely temperate seasonal climate.
Poland’s capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.
Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
