A monument to soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), who died in autumn 1946 in the village of Harazhdzha (5 kilometers from Lutsk, Volyn region) has been unveiled.
The press service of the National Alliance Youth Organization informed that UPA veteran Volodymyr Domansky initiated the creation of the monument to the memory of the fighters for the independence of Ukraine at the place of their death.
"For five years this courageous UPA soldier has been collecting information about the insurgents who died in his native village of Harazhdzha.
At this place, members of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) encircled a shelter of the UPA soldiers in the autumn of 1946.
The Ukrainian patriots were offered to give in, but they refused to, instead they blew up themselves with a grenade," Head of Volyn OUN-UPA Veteran Community Vasyl Kushnir said at the unveiling of the monument.
Over five years the veteran managed to find out the names of eight insurgents who died there: Fedir Novak, Serhiy Terpeliuk, Petro Loshak, Volodymyr Krotiuk, Kostiantyn Shekeravy, Vasyl Tymoschuk, Oleksiy Korzhenevsky and Volodymyr Vorseniuk.
"Eight more names remain unknown," Kushnir said.
It should be noted that the author and the sponsors of the monument wished to keep their names secret, the OUN-UPA Community reported.
"This might be related to the current political situation in Ukraine," Domansky said.
