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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 Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha in the presence of Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Vyhivskyi and Acting Minister of Defence of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara (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,Andrii Sybiha,president,Volodymyr Zelenskyy,Yevhenii Khmara,Ivan Vyhivskyi

PersonInImage: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L) shakes hands with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha in the presence of Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Vyhivskyi and Acting Minister of Defence of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara (L to R, back)