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The ceremony took place in accordance with military funeral ritual, with all due military honors.
The remains of Colonel of the Ukrainian People's Republic Army and first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Yevhen Konovalets, were reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery (NMMC). This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday, 18 August.
The ceremony was attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Serhiy Korigovsky, Head of the President's Office Kyrylo Budanov, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, government members, military personnel, public representatives, clergy, and the Ukrainian historical community.
“Today we are all participants in a nationwide event, as Ukraine once again restores the highest historical justice to itself. We return home the outstanding son of the Ukrainian people. He is an exemplary warrior and a significant statesman of Ukraine, Colonel Yevhen Konovalets. With him, Ukraine has also returned a part of itself, its memory, Ukrainian experience, our national history, the history of all who at different times lived and fought for Ukraine, for our independence and a sovereign state,” Zelensky said at the reburial.
The ceremony was held in accordance with military funeral ritual, with all due military honors. The event marked the second honorary reburial of Ukraine’s independence fighter on the grounds of the NMMC, after Colonel of the UPR Army and head of the OUN Andriy Melnyk and his wife Sofia Fedak-Melnyk were reburied in May. They will later be reburied in the Ukrainian National Pantheon.
By the way, last week it became known that in Rotterdam, Netherlands, at the Croosewijk cemetery, exhumation of Yevhen Konovalets’ remains took place. The farewell ceremony occurred at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ of the UGCC in Kyiv.
Yevhen Konovalets was a prominent Ukrainian military and political figure, Colonel of the UPR Army. He created the Sich Riflemen corps, founded the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), and was the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), laying the foundations for the later liberation movement. He died 23 in May 1938 in Rotterdam as a result of an NKVD special operation.
Reburial: from abroad they began returning the remains of notable Ukrainians.
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