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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, front) shakes hands with Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Vyhivskyi in the presence of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi and Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine Vitalii Kim (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,Vitalii Kim,president,Volodymyr Zelenskyy,Ivan Vyhivskyi,Mykhailo Drapatyi

PersonInImage: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (L, front) shakes hands with Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ivan Vyhivskyi in the presence of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi and Minister for Veterans Affairs of Ukraine Vitalii Kim (L to R, back)