About 20 years ago, former President Kuchma, with a St.
George ribbon on his chest, spoke about the inadmissibility of the glorification of nationalists Bandera and Shukhevych, leaders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), collaborators with Nazi Germany and organizers of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of approximately 100,000 Poles, because they drive a wedge between people.