Roman Shukhevych
Roman Shukhevych was a Ukrainian military and political leader who commanded the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) from 1943 to 1950. He headed the main leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and was a prominent figure in the Ukrainian nationalist liberation movement of the mid-twentieth century. He was killed in 1950 during a Soviet security operation in Lviv. He is commemorated in Ukraine as a leading figure of the national resistance, though his legacy remains contested.
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Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun destroys UPA monument near Polish-Ukrainian border; police open hate-crime probe
Grzegorz Braun, a Polish member of the European Parliament and leader of the far-right Confederation of the Polish Crown, together with a party colleague, damaged a granite obelisk honoring UPA soldiers in a village near the Polish-Ukrainian border and published video of the act on X. Polish police opened an investigation on September 6 that includes possible charges of desecration of a monument and burial site, property damage, and a hate crime on national grounds. Braun said the obelisk should be dismantled because, in his view, it "insults the memory of victims of the Ukrainian genocide of Poles."