OUN and UPA Archives - Euromaidan Press

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2024

In the blood: fallen Ukrainian sniper is third generation to oppose Russia

Decades after the KGB dragged his defiant father away just days before his planned marriage, dissident descendant Roman Chornomaz dies fighting Russian forces near Bakhmut.

byChristine Chraibi

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Record find of OUN documents in Ternopil Oblast includes novel album of UPA “image-maker” Nil Khasevych

History in milk cans Civilian diggers Andriy Khrunyk and Andriy Ostap found the milk cans in Berezhany…

byChristine Chraibi

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History of Ukraine

Ukrainian Insurgent Army: the glory, the mistakes, and the sins

The 14th of October is a special day for Ukrainians. This day, which traditionally was celebrated as the Orthodox holiday of the Intercession of the Theotokos, in 2015 became the Day of the Defender of Ukraine. Traditionally, it has been the holiday of Ukrainian Cossack warriors (1491-1775) and, now, a day of soldiers fighting the Russian aggression since 2014. Also, on 14th October 1942, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was founded, even though its first units operated since 1941.

byBohdan Ben

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History of Ukraine

Yevhen Konovalets, a leader who knew how to unite Ukrainians and was assassinated by NKVD

14 June 2021 marked 130 years since the birth of Ukrainian Colonel Yevhen Konovalets (14 June 1891 - 23 May 1938), who founded the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and was among the main Ukrainian political leaders of the 1930s who pursued Ukraine's independence at a time when the nation was split under Soviet and Polish rule.

byBohdan Ben

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International

Following Russian intervention, UEFA bans “Glory to the heroes,” Ukraine’s rallying cry for independence, as “political”

cFollowing complaints by the Russian Football Union, UEFA has required Ukraine to remove part of a national slogan…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Memory wars and other battles

Let’s take a look at how Russia remembers its history. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently tried…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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UPA documents found in Italian shell casing in Zhytomyr Oblast

According to Serhiy Halytsky, acting director of the Radomyshl National Museum of Local History, and director of Povstansky…

byUkrainian media sources

Fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in the forests of Volyn. According to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the UPA was the only military force in World War II to define its strategic goal as the creation of an independent Ukrainian state; therefore, the soldiers were ready to fight against all countries that tried to prevent the formation of an independent nation. UPA organized and waged anti-German campaigns throughout the entire period of German occupation. Whole Ukrainian regions were freed from German occupation … where so-called ‘insurgent republics’ were created … UPA engaged in guerilla attacks against the Polish forces that were trying to restore the pre-war borders of Poland. The UPA fought against the Soviet Union as their primary opponent.

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How Communist propaganda made eastern Ukraine hate the national liberation movement

There are historical reasons that explain the non-recognition of the Ukrainian liberation movement by some regions of Ukraine.…

byChristine Chraibi

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Mass graves of UPA & OUN partisans discovered in Ternopil Oblast

Scholars and employees of the memorial research enterprise “Dolya” and the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance have…

byUkrainian media sources

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Former UPA liason officer receives copy of her criminal case as recorded by Soviet NKVD

97-year-old Olha Ilkiv, accompanied by her son Volodymyr, arrived at the SBU headquarters in Lviv to…

byRadio Liberty

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October 21: 70th anniversary of Soviet Operation Zapad

The main organizers and executors of the deportation were the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of…

byUkrayinska Pravda

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Old UPA docs reveal revolutionary activities in Soviet Ukraine in 1950s

The container has a number – 8809, and a date – 1946. The Soviet government purposely numbered and…

byRadio Liberty

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The Volyn Tragedy: Reconciliation or Confrontation?

The Polish Peasant Party is proposing to commemorate July 11 as the Day of Remembrance of the victims…

byRadio Liberty