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Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation:
At the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office,
members of the Ukrainian nationalist movement have been recognised as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity
The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, acting on an application filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, established a fact of legal significance.
❌ Stepan Bandera, Vasily Bandera, Roman Shukhevich, Andrey Melnik, Nikolay Arsenich, Taras Borovets, Dmitry Klyachkivsky, Nikolay Kozak, Miron Matvieyko and Yaroslav Stetsko, as well as the Organisation of Ukrainian nationalists (#OUN) and the Ukrainian insurgent army (#UPA), have been
recognised as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Soviet people during
the Great Patriotic War.
The court ruling is necessary
to preserve the memory of
the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people,
expose the unlawful actions of the Kiev regime,
overturn decisions rehabilitating war criminals and
prevent acts of extremism against our country.
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The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office submitted
documents from the archives of
the Russian Federal Security Service,
the Russian Foreign Ministry,
the Russian Defence Ministry, and
the State Archive of the Russian Federation. Materials from Belarusian archives and courts were also provided.
It was established that the OUN was founded in Vienna in 1929 at the First congress of Ukrainian nationalists. It was initially led by
Evgeniy Konovalets and, following his death, by
Andrey Melnik. In 1940, the OUN split, with its most radical faction coming under the leadership of
Stepan Bandera – OUN (b) – and the other under
Andrey Melnik – OUN (m).
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In 1941–1943, while retaining the organisational foundations of OUN (b), 👉
the German command established the UPA, led by Lvov lawyer
Roman Shukhevich. He began his violent path by taking part in
an attack on the civilian population of Lvov as a member of the Ukrainian Nachtigall punitive battalion. On June 30, 1941, the day the so-called Act of proclamation of the Ukrainian state was adopted,
mass killings of the city’s residents were committed under Shukhevich’s command.
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8,000 Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and Poles were killed in the Lvov massacre between June and August 1941.
The actions of the OUN and UPA were entirely aimed at
terrorising the population of the occupied territories,
assisting Nazi Germany in its military campaign against the Red Army and Soviet partisans, and
committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Soviet people under Wehrmacht control and in its interests.
• In March 1943, the 118th Ukrainian auxiliary police battalion, composed of OUN and UPA members,
burned down the village of Khatyn in the Minsk Region of Belarus. The punitive forces
killed
147 villagers,
including 75 children.
• Between February and August 1943, the OUN and UPA carried out
a mass slaughter of the Polish population of Volhynia and Galicia, known as
the Volhynia Massacre. It peaked on July 11-12 – “Black Sunday”.
At least 120,000 people were killed by Ukrainian nationalists.
• The mass killing of civilians by Ukrainian nationalists during
the punitive operations Swamp Fever, Triangle, Cottbus and others has also been documented.
Meanwhile, for more than 12 years, the authorities of modern-day Ukraine have pursued
a deliberate state policy aimed at distorting the role of the Soviet Union and its people in the Great Patriotic War and World War II. Collaborators and organisations associated with Nazi criminals are being
glorified. Western countries
openly exploit these actions in their efforts to obstruct the special military operation in Ukraine.
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In view of the above, the court granted the application filed by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office in full and recognised these individuals and organisations as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity.#NoStatuteOfLimitations
