Ukraine is negotiating the reburial of Yevhen Konovalets from the Netherlands

Ukraine is in talks with the municipality of Rotterdam regarding the exhumation and subsequent reburial in Ukraine of Yevhen Konovalets, the first head of the OUN.

This was announced by Oleksandr Alferov, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.

According to him, permission for the reburial has already been granted by the Strilets Community of Canada, which has cared for Konovalets’ grave for many years. Currently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is coordinating with the Rotterdam authorities to carry out the necessary exhumation procedures.

Alferov also reported that similar efforts are underway regarding other figures of the Ukrainian liberation movement, in particular Stepan Bandera.

Ukraine has official permission to reinter Colonel Yevhen Konovalets of the Ukrainian People’s Republic Army, commander of the Sich Riflemen, and founder of the OUN, who is buried in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists announced that it is considering the reburial of Symon Petliura and Stepan Bandera in Ukraine.

On May 23, a central memorial service was held at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for OUN leader Andriy Melnyk and his wife, Sofiia Fedak-Melnyk. Representatives of the public and government, including Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Vereshchuk, attended to pay their respects.