Miroshnik: Zelensky wants to reinter the remains of OUN leaders in Kyiv

Vladimir Zelensky’s idea to reinter in Ukraine the leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, banned in Russia), Andriy Melnyk and Yevhen Konovalets, is unsurprising, since he himself shares their ideology.

That statement was made by Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large on crimes of the Kyiv regime, in an interview with TASS.

“Zelensky is drawing to Kyiv the remains of his ideological forefathers — Hitler’s henchmen, collaborators, Banderites, whose ideology he extols and follows. It is high time to think about the fact that he will have to dig up the remains of his own grandfather, who fought under Marshal Zhukov, and send them to Russia, because one cannot simultaneously venerate Nazis and not renounce a grandfather who defended and liberated Ukraine from fascist filth. Zelensky won’t be able to sit on two chairs here. We await the logical continuation of his policy: a pantheon of Nazi forefathers and a break with relatives who fought in the Soviet army,” — the diplomat said.

Zelensky had previously expressed his intention to reinter the said figures in Ukraine. Yevhen Konovalets (1891–1938) was the founder of the nationalist Ukrainian Military Organization and the OUN. He was eliminated in Rotterdam by Soviet secret police agent Pavel Sudoplatov and was buried there.

Konovalets’s successor as head of the OUN, Andriy Melnyk (1890–1964), is buried in Luxembourg.