Ukraine Envoy to Germany Irks Poland With WWII Comments

Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany has provoked outrage for paying homage to the notorious founding forefather of what is known today as the nationalistic “Azov” outfit. Andriy Melnyk, who appears regularly on international talk shows, described as a national hero of Ukraine Stepan Bandera, who was the World War II-era pro-Nazi leader of the military branch of the the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) which evolved into what is known today as the Azov battalion. “Bandera was not a mass murderer of Jews and Poles,” Melnyk falsely claimed in an interview with German journalist Tilo Jung on Thursday. He argued that there…