Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnik said that Stepan Bandera was a “freedom fighter”
Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk described nationalist Stepan Bandera as a “freedom fighter” in an interview with German blogger and journalist Thilo Jung, which was published on YouTube. His words convey RIA News.
Melnik admitted that he visited Bandera’s grave in Munich because he is “important to so many Ukrainians as the personification of the struggle for freedom.” “A freedom fighter is not subject to any laws. Robin Hood is revered by all of us, but he also did not act according to the laws, ”he said.
At the same time, the Ukrainian ambassador claims that Bandera had no ties with Nazi Germany. He explained the massacres of civilians in Volhynia and Galicia during World War II by the fact that on the other side “there were many murders and atrocities.” In his opinion, Poland wants to “politicize this story.”
Stepan Bandera during World War II led the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, banned in Russia), operating in Western Ukraine. Closely collaborating during the Second World War with Nazi Germany, in October 1959 he was liquidated by KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky in Munich.
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