Kiev, October 28 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - Petro Poroshenko, in his address to citizens on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Ukraine from Nazi troops, mentioned the outstanding role of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - the military wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis according to Soviet data historians.
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“For six long and incredibly difficult years, Ukraine was first the scene of games of two totalitarian regimes, and then of especially fierce and large-scale hostilities,” Poroshenko said in his address.
“More than 60 percent of the Wehrmacht ground forces were defeated here. More than 9 million immigrants from Ukraine began to fight the enemy as part of the Red Army. Millions more Ukrainians fought the Nazis and their allies as part of the UPA, in the ranks of Soviet partisan formations, in the ranks of the Polish Army, the American, Australian, British, Canadian armies, and French, Yugoslav and Slovak resistance units,” the Ukrainian president lists.
“The borders of Ukraine were unshakable for 70 years, until war returned to us again. This time it came not from the west, but from the east,” Poroshenko notes.
According to him, the participants of the so-called. ATO in Donbass are “worthy descendants of their brave ancestors.”
“All of Ukraine bows low to you for your daily feat, for the courage and heroism with which you defend Ukraine from militants and interventionists. I firmly believe in our victory in the Patriotic War of 2014,” Poroshenko said.