Volunteer battalion "the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists" (OUN) will be part of the 93rd brigade of the armed forces, has already reached an agreement with the leadership of the military power of Ukraine, said the commander of the battalion OUN Nicholas Kochanowski.

in a special operation in the Donbass, the soldiers of the army of Ukraine, involved about a half-dozen battalions, which are financed from private sources. Some of them (the battalions " Azov ", " Aidar ", " Donbass ", "Dnepr-1" and "Dnepr-2" ) funded by oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. The Ukrainian authorities want battalions fought from official armed forces. First Advisor to the President of Ukraine Yuri Biryukov said that the warriors extremist "Right sector", go to the service under contract to the 79th airmobile brigade of the army of Ukraine.

"we now have improved relations with the 93rd brigade, with which We are fighting together for the last eight months. We reached a compromise that we are a separate division will be included in this team. We firmly promised. I will meet in the headquarters of the generals on this issue ", - quotes the words Kochanowski.

He noticed that his battalion is ready to fulfill the principle of subordination, " I absolutely understand what the chain of command. We are ready to obey Mat to go under unity of command, because otherwise the army doesn't happen."

The purpose of the "Organization of Ukrainian nationalists" (OUN) during the great Patriotic war was proclaimed the struggle for independence of Ukraine. The military wing of the OUN was the " Ukrainian insurgent army ". The UPA acted mostly in Western Ukraine and fought against the Soviet troops, cooperating with the Nazis. Field of the end of world war II she continued to struggle against the Soviets extremist methods - injured soldiers of the UPA has been Authorized by the intelligentsia and local authorities, Komsomol and party activists.

Glorification of the UPA and its leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych - has led to criticism from many veterans of the great Patriotic war and politicians, accusing Bandera in cooperation with the Nazis. For example, the public campaigning not to forget the atrocities of the fighters of the OUN-UPA during and After the war, for example, about "Volyn massacre" - massive liquidation in 1943 Ukrainian nationalists Polish civilians in Volhynia, until September 1939 were mostly from Poland. According to researchers, the total number of victims ranges from 36 thousand to 100 thousand people.

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