Defenders Day (Ukraine)
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Defenders Day is a public holiday in Ukraine celebrated annually on 1 October. The holiday honors veterans and fallen members of the Ukrainian armed forces. Its first celebration was in 2015.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy participating in the Day of Defenders awards ceremony in 2022
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Ukrainian Insurgent Army
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The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Banderite faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on 14 October 1942, existing until the 1950s.
Defenders Day (Ukraine)
…Den zakhysnyka Ukrainy) due to the Russo-Ukrainian War and decommunization in Ukraine. October 14 was picked to mark the date of establishment of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (УПА) (October 14, 1942). This decree was approved by the Ukrainian parliament (the Verkhovna Rada) on 5 March 2015. The holiday replaced the former…
A UPA propaganda poster. The OUN/UPA's formal greeting is written in Ukrainian on two of horizontal lines Glory to Ukraine – Glory to (her) Heroes. The soldier is standing on the banners of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Taras Bulba-Borovets with his staff at a pro-German demonstration in the district of Sarny, September 1941
UPA Commanders left to right: Oleksander Stepchuk, Ivan Klimchak, Nikon Semeniuk 1941–1942
A UPA leaflet, which reads "No to Yoska (Joseph Stalin), no to Fritz (Hitler)"