Poles angry over fashion shoot on Polish graves in Ukraine

  Poland, on Thursday protested a photo exhibition in Ukraine, posing with mannequins as Catholic nuns near the graves of Polish soldiers, an incident that threatened to disturb the close relations between the two neighboring countries dressed Kiev, in the support of Warsaw's Push to closer integration with the European Union, the European Union is founded.

The protest came during a visit by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, the pressure on Ukraine to put the commitment of Europe standards of democracy and human rights if it wants to join the European club.

On Friday, Mr Komorowski and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is a monument outside Kiev thousands of Polish officers murdered by Stalin to reveal secret police at the start of World War II.

The photographs, taken by Ukrainian fashion magazine and in a museum last week, showed women provocative poses next to a young man with a naked torso in a cross in a cemetery in the western city of Lviv. The graves have died of Polish soldiers who, when the Poles and Ukrainians fought for control of Lviv in the wake of World War I.

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday that its diplomats in Lviv "the impropriety of exposure that could hurt the feelings and cause controversy" protested and were able to get the exhibition closed.

"It was terrible, it's an insult to the memory of the soldiers of the State, is the all," said Emil Legovich, a leader of the Polish community in Lviv. It is assumed that exposure was organized by "certain political forces", the Polish-Ukrainian relations in the Ukraine hotly contested election to sabotage next month.

Galina Tayan Magazine Online Fashion LZ which organized the shoot, said that the photos were meant to illustrate the controversies of religion and the church. She denied any political context and explained that the photos were taken a year ago, does not intend to offend anyone.

Tayan said they chose the Polish section of the large cemetery of Lviv, just because they thought crosses graves Poland to be photogenic.

The director of the museum, Iryna Magdysh she said regretted the decision to release the photos, saying they were offensive.

"Our freedom ends where the freedom of another person begins," said Magdysh. "And if these young people want to get PR for yourself with this scandal, we have the honor of defending Lviv."

Poland is the closest ally of Ukraine among the countries of the EU and called for Ukraine's integration with the 27-member bloc. Komorowski on Thursday urged Yanukovych between alignment with the European Union and the rapprochement with Russia to choose.