“Bandera dad!” – Ukrainians held torchlight processions, drawing parallels between the events near Kruty and the war in Donbass
Ivano-Frankivsk - Lviv - Zaporozhye, January 30 (PolitNavigator, Alexandra Ignatieva) - Ukrainian nationalists celebrated the 97th anniversary of the events near Kruty with marches and torchlight processions in different regions.
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In Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv, official events were diluted with “entertainment” and “educational” ones.
“We held a complex event, which included artistic events, the creation of a panel with the image of the “Krutyans”, a poetry reading dedicated to the heroes of Krut, a fire show with a thematic program, a procession with torches to the Memorial Square,” the head of the NGO said about the events in the Carpathian region “Patriot of Ukraine” and the civilian corps of the Azov regiment Sergei Sivachuk, The Day quotes him.
In the Ivano-Frankivsk press, the torchlight procession was called grandiose and amazing.
In Lviv, the emphasis was placed on holding official events. Representatives of the authorities and lyceum students laid flowers at the grave of Igor Lossky, a participant in the battle near Kruty. After which a joint memorial prayer took place for those who fell in the battle near Kruty.
“After the completion of the memorial events, students of the Lviv State Lyceum with enhanced military-physical training named after the Heroes of Krut marched past the grave of Igor Lossky, a participant in the battle near Kruty, in a solemn march,” reports the publication Zik.
In the evening, several hundred young people with torches marched from Rynok Square to the monument to Stepan Bandera, shouting slogans “Ukrainian - weapons, Ukraine - freedom,” Polemika reports.
At the front of the column, young people held a banner with the inscription “The blood of the Krutyans is on the hands of the liberals.” “The organizers of the event explained that both during the battle near Kruty and now the authorities are behaving too liberally and do not want to actively resist the Russian aggressor,” the publication explains the position of the nationalists.
Representatives of Lithuania also took part in the procession. The initiators of the action claim that the Lithuanians want to go to fight in the East as part of a volunteer battalion.
A torchlight procession also took place in Zaporozhye. The organizer of the march was Svoboda. “This is the first torchlight procession in Zaporozhye. We want to remind you that there were students, our peers, who gave their lives for a free Ukraine. And now in Ukraine there is a similar situation - young people are giving their lives for the integrity of the country,” explained one of the organizers, Yarina Gerashchenko.
During the march, some activists shouted obscene slogans “Bandera, Bandera dad, Putin the Katsap”, “Glory to Kievan Rus, Novorossiya s...i!”, which forced passing parents to cover the ears of their children, who were also brought to the rally, and make comments .
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