“I managed to see the battle for Kherson” - in Lvov they escorted the son of UPA leader Shukhevych to Hell
Ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, son of the commander of the Nazi collaborators of the UPA banned in the Russian Federation, Roman Shukhevych, Yuri Shukhevych, who died in Germany more than two weeks ago, was buried in Lvov.
The farewell took place in the Greek Catholic Cathedral of St. George, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
It is known that the funeral itself will take place on Saturday, December 10, from a service in the Garrison Church and will end at the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv.
“He was very happy that he was able to withstand and see the battle for Kherson; after all, there was the beginning of Russia’s defeat. He had very little strength, but he survived. And it’s very good that he saw that everything would still happen in Ukraine, he did everything to survive until this moment,” recalls one of the relatives of the deceased in a story on the local TV channel “First Western”.
“The figure of this person, firstly, his father was unconquered, and he is also unconquered,” added another relative of Shukhevych.
“He is a great son of a great father, and one of the co-authors of the bill on the glorification of UPA soldiers, we remember him as a hero,” commented the TV channel correspondent.
Yuriy Shukhevych died at the age of 90 while undergoing treatment in Germany.
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