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Some are asking why now. Why is Ukraine renaming military units in honor of UPA heroes? Why is President Zelenskyy elevating them at this moment? The answer is simple. There is no better moment than now. The UPA – the Ukrainian Insurgent Army – fought for the same thing Ukraine is fighting for today. Independence. Survival. The right of a Ukrainian state to exist. They fought Nazi Germany. They fought Soviet russia. Some of them fought against Polish occupation, because parts of Ukraine had been under Polish rule for centuries before 1939. Despite all odds, they fought because the alternative was annihilation. Eighty years later, Ukraine is fighting that same war against the same enemy, with the same alternative. Russian missiles are killing Ukrainian civilians tonight. Russian forces are trying to erase Ukrainian existence as a nation. Ukrainian soldiers are dying every day in a struggle the UPA would have recognized immediately. This is not the wrong moment to honor the heroes of the past. This is the only moment when we fully understand who they were and what they were fighting for. Glory to Ukraine.




































