On Monday evening, Russian troops attacked the Lviv region using Shahed drones. As a result of a fire caused by the remains of a downed drone, the museum of UPA commander Roman Shukhevich in Lviv was destroyed. The building was significantly damaged, only fragments of burnt walls remain.
Poroshenko announces the reconstruction of the museum of the UPA commander
According to “Interfax-Ukraine” agency, the reconstruction of the museum will be financed by the foundation of the former president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. Russia, like real Nazis, is destroying our national memory. These are the Maria Primachenko Museum, the Skovoroda Museum and the University where Bandera studied. But memory cannot be burned with rockets, said Poroshenko.
– Marina Poroshenko and I decided to restore the destroyed Shukhevich Museum in order to preserve it for posterity. Our foundation will finance all the necessary work, said the former president of Ukraine.
According to him, Shukhevich was an “extraordinary person” because “he created the first Ukrainian business in Galicia and financed the Ukrainian rebel army.”
– This is the story of a great commander-in-chief who was able to build a state in an empire. Who was able to create the Ukrainian army from scratch? He unequivocally believed in Ukraine. We Ukrainians remember. The museum will survive, Poroshenko said.
Who was Roman Shukevich?
In 1941-1942, Roman Shukhevich commanded Ukrainian troops that collaborated with Nazi Germany. From 1943, he was the commander of the armed forces of the OUN, the rebel army of Ukraine, which committed mass murders of approximately 100,000 people. Poles from Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. He is directly responsible for issuing criminal warrants.
Both Shukhevich and Bandera are considered heroes in Ukraine.
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