Ukraine gives nod to nationalist marches on Victory Day | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “The Ukrainian authorities will not ban Victory Day parades by veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which fought on the side of the Nazis in World War II, a deputy prime minister said on Wednesday.
The UPA fought against the Soviet Army during World War II. Following the invasion of German troops in the summer of 1941, one of its leaders, Stepan Bandera, called on Ukrainians ‘to help the German army in the fight against Moscow and Bolshevism.’
‘I think such parades will take place in western regions. We will not ban anything,’ Volodymyr Seminozhenko said.”