RT reports today that Kiev has “renamed a military unit in honor of Yevhen Konovalets, the fascist sympathizer who led the Ukrainian nationalist insurgency in Poland during the 1920s. The ‘honorary title’ was bestowed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week.
“According to a presidential decree published by Zelenskyy’s office, the 131st reconnaissance battalion of the army was given its new name as part of events connected with the Day of Defenders of Ukraine, which was marked on Sunday.
“Konovalets was a Galician-born Austrian veteran of World War I. He was peripherally involved in the short-lived secessionist Ukrainian People’s Republic in the late 1910s.
“In 1920, Konovalets moved to Czechoslovakia, where he and other Ukrainian nationalists with combat experience founded the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), a paramilitary organization that was involved in the armed fight in what is now Western Ukraine.
