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A priest walks with a thurible around the coffin of Colonel Yevhen Konovalets, first head of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR), during the solemn reburial ceremony at the National Military Memorial Cemetery in Kyiv region, Ukraine, August 18, 2026. On August 11, 2026, Konovalets’ remains were exhumed at Crooswijk General Cemetery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where they had rested since his assassination by a Soviet agent in May 1938. (Photo by Danylo Antoniuk/Ukrinform)