ShUkhevich was a dissident, spent almost 30 years in prison during the Soviet era, was engaged in active political and public activities in Ukraine after the collapse of the Union, represented extreme nationalist views
Yuri Shukhevich
Yuri Shukhevych died in Germany, the son of the last commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA, recognized as extremist in Russia and banned) Roman Shukhevych, the Lviv agency NTA reports, citing the wife of the deceased.
Shukhevych was born on March 28, 1933 in the Lviv Voivodeship of Poland. Since 1939, his family lived in Krakow, and in 1941, after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the Shukhevichi moved to Lviv.
Under Soviet rule, Shukhevych was a dissident, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, served his sentence in 1948, 1956, 1956, 1968, 1972, 1988 and spent a total of 28 years in prisons and camps of the USSR. He got his first term as a teenager.
In 1990–1994, Shukhevych organized and headed the UNA-UNSO (Ukrainian National Assembly— Ukrainian People’s Self-Defense, recognized as an extremist organization and banned in Russia), in 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko awarded Yuri Shukhevych the title of Hero of Ukraine.
However, the political projects in which Shukhevych participated were not popular with the majority of residents of Ukraine and gained an insignificant percentage of votes in the elections. Shukhevich became a deputy of the Rada following the results of the elections in October 2014, however, he was on the party list of the Radical Party of Oleg Lyashko, because of which he was removed from the post of chairman of the UNA-UNSO. In the Rada, he was one of the authors of the bill on the severance of diplomatic relations with Russia, which then failed.
On November 1, 2018, Shukhevych came under Russian sanctions among other 322 individuals and 68 legal entities.
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His father Roman Shukhevich is an active figure of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. In 1941, he entered Ukraine as part of the German special forces “Nachtigall” with the rank of Hauptmann, later became deputy commander of the 201st security battalion, which took part in the fight against the partisans of Belarus. In 1944, Roman Shukhevych led the Ukrainian insurgent army, which, after the departure of the military of Nazi Germany, fought against the Soviet government. He was killed during a special operation to detain him in March 1950.
Shukhevych and his subordinates were repeatedly accused of involvement in mass killings and ethnic cleansing. In January 2010, President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko awarded Roman Shukhevych the title of Hero of Ukraine posthumously, but in April of that year a court in Donetsk declared this decision illegal, since Shukhevych had never been a citizen of Ukraine.
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