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UNIAN In Ukraine, a ceremony of reburial of the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Yevhen Konovalets, took place.
According to UNIAN correspondent. The procession passed at the National Military Memorial Cemetery near Kyiv. It was attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Serhii Korotky, Head of the President's Office Kyrylo Budanov, Speaker of Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk, Minister of Veterans Vitaliy Kim, Minister of Defense Yevheniy Khmara, and other officials.
During the ceremony, Konovalets’ coffin was covered with a Ukrainian flag, which was then handed to the president. Although the ceremony took place under air raid sirens, the procession was not stopped.
As noted by head of the Institute of National Memory Oleksandr Alfiorov, Konovalets’ burial at this site is temporary. Later, as with a number of other Ukrainian figures, he is planned to be reburied at the Ukrainian National Pantheon on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra grounds.
"We say that the burial of Konovalets and Melnyk is temporary. A special sector has been allocated so that temporary reburials can be brought here for those great Ukrainian fighters for independence who are currently abroad. In the future, they will be reburied in the Ukrainian Pantheon," Alfiorov said.
In Ukraine, the first head of the OUN Konovalets was reburied.
Also, according to him, Ukraine plans to return the bodies of figures such as Petliura and Skoropadsky.
Procession of reburial of Konovalets at the National Military Memorial Cemetery.
What preceded it.
11 In August, in the Netherlands, the remains of Colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the first head of the OUN, Yevhen Konovalets, were exhumed to be handed over to Ukraine. By 13 August it became known that Konovalets’ remains had been delivered to Ukraine, where they were greeted with full military honors.
Konovalets died 23 May 1938 year in Rotterdam. The cause of death was an explosion – a Soviet agent handed him a box of candies containing an explosive.
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