PREVIEW

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) participate in the solemn reburial ceremony 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), 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)