Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Sunday in Krakow to attend the burial of Polish leader Lech Kaczynski and his wife who died in a recent air crash in western Russia, the Kremlin press office said.
Early on Sunday, a Polish military plane delivered the bodies of Kaczynski and his wife Maria from Warsaw to Krakow for burial.
Kaczynski and his wife, who along with a delegation of senior Polish officials died in a plane crash near the western Russian city of Smolensk on April 10, will be buried on Sunday in the medieval Wawel castle, the final resting place of Polish royalty and many other distinguished citizens.
The first couple will be buried under the castle's Silver Bell Tower.
Meanwhile, the Polish Foreign Ministry has told RIA Novosti that U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozi, Italian Prime Minster Silvio Berlusconi and some other foreign leaders would be unable to attend the funeral in Krakow over the spread of a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that had paralyzed flights across Europe.
KRAKOW, April 18 (RIA Novosti)
