A procession dedicated to the 112th anniversary of the birth of the leader of Ukrainian nationalists took place in the center of Kiev Stepan Bandera , reports RIA Novosti .
Participants of the procession gathered in Shevchenko Park, lit torches and moved in a column through the city center. The event ended with a minute of silence on the Independence Square.
A group of people with white-red-white flags took part in the action. During the march, the police partially blocked traffic in the city center. The same actions took place in other cities of Ukraine.
In 1929, Stepan Bandera headed the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), banned in Russia. The OUN advocated the creation of an independent state inhabited by ethnic Ukrainians. Its military wing Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Organization banned in Russia) in years During the Great Patriotic War, at first she actively cooperated with the Nazis, and then fought both against German troops and against Soviet units. In 1959, in Munich, he was liquidated by a KGB agent Bogdan Stashinsky .