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A procession dedicated to the 112th anniversary of the birth of the leader of the Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera was held in the center of Kiev, reports RIA Novosti.
Participants in the procession gathered in Shevchenko Park, lit torches and moved in a column through the city center. The event ended with a minute of silence in the Plaza de la Independencia.
A group of people with white-red-white flags participated in the action. During the march, the police partially blocked traffic in the city center. The same actions were carried out in other cities of Ukraine.
In 1929, Stepan Bandera headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which was banned in Russia. The OUN advocated the creation of an independent state inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians. Its military wing, the Insurgent Army of Ukraine (the Organization is banned in Russia), during the Great Patriotic War, first actively collaborated with the Nazis and later fought against both German troops and Soviet units. In 1959, in Munich, he was liquidated by a KGB agent, Bogdan Stashinsky.
