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The remains of a fighter for Ukraine’s independence in the 20th century, a statesman, military and political figure, a colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR), and the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Yevhen Konovalets, were reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery (NMMC). The ceremony was conducted according to military funeral ritual with all due military honors.
KV learned this from a report by “Interfax-Ukraine.”
As the agency’s correspondent reports, the reburial ceremony took place in the morning of 18 August.
The ceremony was conducted according to military funeral ritual with all due military honors.
The ceremony was attended by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine Serhiy Koretskyi, Head of the Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov and his deputy Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine Vitaliy Kim, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sybiha, Acting Minister of Defense Yevhenii Khmara, Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal, Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Oleksandr Alfyorov, Head of the State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience Viktor Yelenskyi, Verkhovna Rada deputy Volodymyr Viatrovych (European Solidarity faction), deputy ministers, military personnel, representatives of the public, clergy, and the Ukrainian historical community.
As “Suspilne” recalls, Yevhen Konovalets was a colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UPR), commander of the Sich Riflemen, commandant of the Ukrainian Military Organization and the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). 23 May 1938 of the year Konovalets was killed in Rotterdam. The assassination was organized by Soviet special services, carried out by agent Pavlo Sudoplatov. After the colonel’s death he was buried in the Crooswijk Cemetery in Rotterdam. His grave had temporary status, since it had been planned that his remains would be reburied in Ukraine in the future. In May 2026 the Netherlands granted Ukraine permission to rebury Konovalets.
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