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Israel rebukes Ukraine over celebrations of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera
Activists of various nationalist parties shout slogans and carry torches during a rally to mark the birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime and who was assassinated in Germany in 1959, in Kyiv, Ukraine

ISRAEL has issued its strongest rebuke yet of Ukraine’s sanction of neonazi activity, with its ambassador condemning “glorification of collaborators with the Nazi regime.”

Joel Lion condemned a torchlit New Year’s Day march through Kiev honouring Stepan Bandera, the head of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed wing the Ukrainian Insurgent Army which fought alongside the Nazis during the second world war.

Marchers carried banners reading: “Nationalism is our religion, Bandera is our prophet.”

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