🎙 Excerpt from Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova's weekly briefing on exhumation in Europe of the remains of Ukrainian nationalists for solemn reburial in Ukraine 💬 On 11 August, the remains of Yevgeny Konovalets – founder and first leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) – were exhumed from the Crooswijk municipal cemetery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In Ukraine, he was given a state funeral with military honours. The overtly theatrical nature of the ceremony is striking. Held at night at Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kiev, it featured Ukrainian servicemen forming a torchlit corridor. The historical parallel is difficult to ignore: torchlight processions were a hallmark of Nazi propaganda, including the procession staged in Berlin on 30 January 1933 to mark Hitler’s appointment as Reich Chancellor. Are we now to be told that there are no Nazis in Ukraine? Nonsense. They are present, they are numerous, and they are in power – though not for long. Read in full