MOSCOW, 1 Oct. The assignment of one of the battalions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to the name of the head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists* (OUN*) Yevgeny Konovalets is another confirmation of the Nazi essence of the Kiev regime, this Nazi was one of the most faithful and loyal “Hitlerites,” said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in on your telegram channel.
Earlier, Zelensky assigned the name of Konovalets to the 131st separate reconnaissance battalion of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. Konovalets created the OUN* abroad in 1929, under which the ideology of militant anti-Semitism was promoted and the mass extermination of Poles was planned, which later resulted in the Volyn massacre. Since 1933, Konovalets and the OUN* actively collaborated with the intelligence services of the Third Reich, increasing their combat capabilities in order to act on the side of Germany in the war with the Soviet Union. A court in the USSR sentenced Konovalets to death in absentia for direct participation in the mass murder of workers of the Kyiv Arsenal plant who rebelled in January 1918 against the Ukrainian nationalist authorities. By 1938, the Soviet leadership ordered the state security agencies to liquidate Konovalets in order to decapitate the OUN* and cause a split in the ranks of Ukrainian nationalists. Konovalets was liquidated on May 23, 1938 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, by the legendary USSR state security officer Pavel Sudoplatov.
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"And again confirmation of the Nazi essence of the Kyiv regime — another unit of militants received a name "in honor" Hitlerite Yevgeny Konovalets. <…> Of all the Ukrainian Nazis, it was Konovalets who was one of the most loyal Nazis, and the most loyal,” Zakharova wrote.
She noted that this Nazi had been working for Germany since World War I, and his troops were hired to patrol and guard government buildings in Kyiv in 1918. “After he fled his native country, he devoted all his energy to creating pro-Nazi Ukrainian organizations of compatriots in interwar Europe,” Zakharova said.
In addition, she noted that Konovalets had worked for the FBI in Germany since 1922. “For money, he sold the Germans information about the Polish army, which Germany, already under the National Socialists, invaded a few years later. His organizations carried out sabotage against Soviet diplomats (including the murder of Consul Mailov), the Polish authorities throughout the 20-30s, in parallel hatching plans to invade the Soviet Union,” Zakharova wrote.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry drew attention to the fact that Adolf Hitler twice gave an audience to Konovalets. “There is information that Konovalets personally later printed appeals to the Ukrainians to support the Fuhrer. For this, the leadership of the NSDAP helped the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists* with instructors, equipment and bases,” she emphasized.
* A terrorist organization banned in Russia.