Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists hold a torchlight procession across Kiev in honour of Stepan Bandera, a World War II anti-Soviet insurgent. (Photo: AFP/Genya Savilov
KIEV: Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev on Thursday (Jan 1) in honour of a 1940s anti-Soviet insurgent branded by Moscow as a Nazi collaborator whom Europe must reject.
The march on what would have been Stepan Bandera’s 106th birthday moved along the same streets on which hundreds of thousands rallied for three months last winter before ousting a Moscow-backed president.
Some wore World War II-era army uniforms while others draped themselves in the red …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
