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.
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)"
The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists was a Ukrainian nationalist organization established on February 2, 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, r
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
…УПА, romanized: Ukrayinska Povstanska Armiya, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan formation founded by the Banderite faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) on 14 October 1942, existing until the 1950s. The UPA launched guerrilla warfare against the Soviet Union, the Polish people (both the Polish…
Symon Petliura (center) and Colonel Yevhen Konovalets (to Petliura's right) taking the oath of office of the Sich Riflemen training school in Starokostiantyniv, 1919
Yevhen Konovalets, the OUN's leader from 1929 to 1938
The corpse of Bronisław Pieracki on 18 June 1934