smolensk

Or should he keep his army in Smolensk for the approaching winter?

4500 Polish officers are executed with a bullet in the head in the Katyn forest near Smolensk in Russia.

In August, the French and Russian armies engaged at Smolensk, in a battle that left over ten thousand dead on each side.

Another cross once stood in the same spot to commemorate the traumatic plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 that killed Poland's president and many other senior officials.