OUN battalion commander Mykola Kokhanivskyi died on the entrance within the Kharkiv area.
About this reported Stepan Khmara’s spouse – Roksolana – on Monday, June 10.
About this reported in addition to Oleksandr Donii.
“Pals, I can not stay silent! Mykola Kokhanivskyi died! They are saying he has not but been taken out of shelling… He was the perfect of the perfect. He was a Buddy, a comrade, a relative of the closest… He died in a trench on the entrance line within the Kharkiv route, close to Vovchansk,” wrote Roksolana Khmara on Fb.
What is thought regarding Kokhanivskyi
Ukrainian nationalist public and political determine, navy man. In accordance with his personal phrases, he joined the nationalist motion in 2003, when he moved to Kyiv.
Joined the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists. He turned identified to most of the people following, along with a bunch of like-minded individuals, he broken the monument to Lenin on Bessarabian Sq. in Kyiv. Legislation enforcement officers initiated felony proceedings towards Kokhanivskyi. The trial ended solely in 2013, Kokhanivskyi was sentenced to a few years of probation.
Whereas the trial was ongoing, Kokhanivskyi took half within the 2012 parliamentary elections — he ran for the 97th majority district (Kyiv area) from the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists. Nonetheless, ultimately he received a bit greater than 1% of the voters’ votes.
At regarding the identical time, he joined one other public group, “Freedom of Political Prisoners”, which fought for the discharge, particularly, of the so-called “Vasylkiv terrorists” (members of socialist-nationalist organizations who had been accused of making ready a terrorist assault on Independence Day in 2011).
In the course of the Revolution of Dignity, Kokhanivskyi led one of many tons of of Self-Protection Forces on the Maidan, which was shaped primarily from members of the OUN, a nationalist group to which Kokhanivskyi belonged on the time.
In July 2014, he led the OUN volunteer battalion that went to battle in Donbas. His fighters had been stationed within the village of Pisky and defended the Donetsk airport.
Subsequently, he based his personal public group “Volunteer Motion of the OUN”
On February 20, 2016, in Kyiv, activists of the “OUN Motion” threw stones on the constructing of “Sberbank of Russia” and in addition broke into the department of “Alfa Financial institution”. Then the top of the “Volunteer Motion of the OUN” Mykola Kokhanivsky took accountability for the group of the pogroms of two Russian banks and the workplace of Rinat Akhmetov’s firm.
In June 2020, the Shevchenkivskyi District Court docket of Kyiv sentenced Mykola Kokhanivskyi to 2 years in jail with a one-year suspension of execution as a “conditional time period”.
One other case is being investigated concerning Kokhanivskyi. On October 21, 2017, the police detained him on suspicion of taking pictures with an air weapon throughout a battle with the previous commander of one of many “Proper Sector” platoons Ruslan Kachmala, name signal “Rem”. Then there have been clashes within the courtroom in the course of the collection of preventive measures towards Kokhanivskyi.
Subsequently, a hostel for displaced individuals burned down in Kyiv, via which Kokhanivskyi shot Kachmala.
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