A Moscow court has ruled that Bandera, Shukhevych, the OUN, and the UPA were Nazi collaborators
The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow granted the claim filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation and recognized Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as “accomplices of Nazi Germany” in crimes against Soviet citizens during World War II.
According to the Russian side, the ruling also applies to eight other figures in the Ukrainian nationalist movement. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office stated that they were allegedly involved in acts of terror, punitive operations, and mass killings.
Among the incidents cited by the Russian prosecutor’s office are the Lviv pogrom, the Babyn Yar tragedy, the events in Khotyn, the Volhynia tragedy, as well as crimes against Jews, partisans, and residents of Belarus. As evidence, the agency provided materials from Russian and Belarusian archives.
A representative of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office stated that this decision is allegedly necessary to counter “the falsification of history,” to overturn decisions on the rehabilitation of “war criminals,” and to combat “extremism.”
Russian authorities regularly use historical themes in their information policy regarding Ukraine. Kyiv and Ukrainian historians have repeatedly stated that Moscow manipulates historical events to discredit the Ukrainian liberation movement and justify its own aggression against Ukraine.
This is reported by Russian media.
As a reminder, in Moscow, FSB officers detained Igor Moiseenko, deputy general director for corporate security at Gazprom Energoholding. He is suspected of accepting a bribe of approximately $630,000.
Ukrainian national hero Stepan Bandera verified his Twitter account, paid $8 per month, and became the proud owner of the “blue checkmark” next to his name.
