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Headline: Remains Of OUN Leader Yevhen Konovalets Reburied At National Military Memorial Cemetery

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) shakes hands with Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Olena Kondratiuk in the presence of Acting Minister of Defence of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha (L to R, back) during 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)

Keywords: history,politics,remembrance,reburial,cemetery,Yevhen Konovalets,Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists,OUN,National Military Memorial Cemetery,Kyiv region,president,Volodymyr Zelenskyy,Olena Kondratiuk,Yevhenii Khmara,Andrii Sybiha

PersonInImage: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) shakes hands with Deputy Speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament Olena Kondratiuk in the presence of Acting Minister of Defence of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha (L to R, back)