The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has been justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “special military operation” with a few barbed purposes, among them cleaning the ...

A Ukrainian court reportedly has annulled a decree that posthumously granted nationalist leader Stepan Bandera the Hero of Ukraine award. The announcement of the decree’s annullment was released ...

KYIV -- Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has declared World War II-era nationalist leader Stepan Bandera a Hero of Ukraine, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Yushchenko, who made the ...

A security volunteer stands in front of a Stepan Bandera banner on Kiev's Independence Square, known as Maidan, on Sunday, March 23, 2014. MCT The rhetoric out of Moscow is consistent, bombastic and, ...

Moss Robeson is a young independent researcher in New York City who has run a prominent blog, “Bandera Lobby,” about the history and contemporary political role of the movement associated with the ...

(JTA) — Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev chanted “Jews out” in German at a New Year’s Day march celebrating the birthday of a Nazi collaborator whose troops killed thousands of Jews. Thousands attending ...

KYIV -- Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said he is concerned by talk of overturning his decrees awarding World War II-era nationalist leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych the Hero ...

Stepan Bandera was leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists He was involved in the ethnic cleansing that killed tens of thousands of Poles in 1942-44 The KGB assassinated Bandera in 1959 ...

Reporting from Lviv, Ukraine — Sinking into irrelevance as rival politicians scrapped to take his place, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko lobbed a grenade into the final days of the campaign: He ...

The rhetoric out of Moscow is consistent, bombastic and, to the Western ear, perhaps a bit puzzling: Ukraine today is run by thugs, fascists and Banderists. “Thugs” and “fascists” are easily ...