The celebrations on Sunday started with a morning holy mass at the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and of St. Joseph in Warsaw. The participants in the morning holy mass, commemorating the 12^th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster, went to the Presidential Palace in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, where the Appeal of Remembrance was read and then the flowers were laid.

Tribute to the victims of the disaster

The next point of the celebrations was the laying of flowers at the monument of the late President Lech Kaczyński and at the Monument to the Victims of the Smolensk Tragedy on the Marszałek Józef Piłsudski Square.

Mass for the victims of the disaster

Minister Marlena Maląg will also participate in the Holy Mass for the victims of the disaster. The Mass will begin at 19:00 in the St. John’s Archcathedral in Warsaw.

Celebration of the 12^th Anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster

The celebrations of the 12^th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster began on Friday with the laying of flowers under a plaque remembering President Lech Kaczyński, Deputy Prime Minister Przemysław Gosiewski and Minister Zbigniew Wasserman in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. The wreaths were laid by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński together with the members of the Council of Ministers.

On Friday, the Minister of Family and Social Policy Marlena Maląg and Deputy Minister Stanisław Szwed laid the flowers under a plaque commemorating Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, former Minister of Social Policy in the years 2004-2005.