The ashes of Yevhen Konovalets were brought to the Patriarchal Cathedral in Kyiv

This was reported by a “Shelter” correspondent.

A farewell ceremony will be held at the cathedral for one of the leading figures of the Ukrainian liberation movement in the first half of the 20th century.

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Konovalets’ remains were returned to Ukraine from the Netherlands, where he had been buried after his death in 1938. Prior to this, an exhumation was conducted at the “Kroswijk” cemetery in Rotterdam.

Yevhen Konovalets commanded the Sich Riflemen during the Ukrainian Revolution. He later headed the Ukrainian Military Organization, and in 1929 became the first chairman of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

Konovalets was killed on May 23, 1938, in Rotterdam as a result of an assassination plot organized by the Soviet secret services. The explosives were handed to him by NKVD agent Pavel Sudoplatov.

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