Ukrainian nationalists created the " Legion of Liberty "
Ukrainian nationalists ? supporters of the party "Freedom" - have created their own Association to the fighters involved in the war in the East of Ukraine, said in Chyhyryn said the leader of "Svoboda" Oleg Tyagnibok.
"For us it is a special day - we dedicate the" Legion of Liberty." We came up with the idea of all the "members" who are fighting for Ukraine, to build in combatants Association. Then, after our victory, the victory of Ukraine over Moscow's enemy, it would be possible to rehabilitate our combatants, to provide psychological help to find them jobs. And today - to assist them in this war, helping the injured, the families of the victims ", - said the head of Ukrainian nationalists during the speech at the Central stadium of Chyhyryn, reports " Wholes ".
According to Tiahnybok, today from "Legion" - thousand " svobodovets ", 127 of them are elected representatives and officials at all levels." Legionnaires is veterans being of military power, the national guard of Ukraine, the special forces and volunteer units. The commander of the "Legion of Liberty" became Oleg Kuzin - the head of the Donetsk branch of " Freedom ", the commander of the volunteer couple of the " Carpathian Sich ". In the war, the Legion has lost 13 soldiers, 69 - received health damage of varying severity, according to a report. The Patriarch of the unrecognized Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate Filaret "sanctified "" Legion ". The event was held in the framework of honoring the "heroes of the Cold Yar" - from 1918 to 1922 in this tract within the modern Cherkasy region acted the rebel units that fought against the White army and the Bolsheviks. At that time there was proclaimed Holodnoyarskyy Republic, which controlled about 25 nearby villages and had an army of about fifteen thousand People. Fresh Ukrainian authorities in fact conducted a campaign on the glorification of Nazi collaborators and revision history. on 9 April, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the law On the recognition of OUN-UPA* fighters for independence of Ukraine and provided the right of its present social guarantees. At the same time, the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada voted for the adoption of the act on condemnation of the Communist regime in Ukraine. European media concluded that the glorification of Ukrainian nationalists and the Ukrainian insurgent army* And the decision of the President of Petro Poroshenko About the transfer of the holiday on February 23, the day of formation of the UPA says that the cult of nationalism in Ukraine has infiltrated the power structures of the largest level. on 14 October last year, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on the abolition of 23 February and the celebration of the day of defender of Ukraine on October 14, the day of formation of the Ukrainian insurgent army, one of the founders of which was Stepan Bandera. At the end of September, Poroshenko said that the possibility of recognition of commissioners of the OUN-UPA combatants and one of the belligerents during the 2nd world war. In addition, According to the head of the security service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaychenko, the Ministry wishes to apply in their work experience in the relevant structures of the OUN-UPA 30-50-ies of the previous century. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine submitted a draft law On the recognition of UPA party to the conflict in the Second world war.
* Organization, relative to which a court has adopted the legally effective conclusion Of destruction or prohibition of the activities on the grounds stipulated by the Federal law "On countering extremist activity"
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