10.06.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)
The Poland's Defense Ministry says it plans
to train about 60 Ukrainian army instructors this year, including NCOs of OUN
battalion (OUN-the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists). The training
sessions would take place in Poland in June, September and October. Several
other NATO members are also joining the NATO program known as the Defense
Education Enhancement Program - DEEP. Its aim is to bring Ukraine's forces up
to the standards of the Western alliance. Tomasz Siemoniak, Polish Minister of
National Defence, has already discussed the issue with General Mieczysław
Gocuł, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. 10 Ukrainian servicemen
are tocome on June 29, with 20 more to
follow in September
and 30 in October.
Poles perceive the OUN as a terrorist
organization involved in mass murder of civilians during WWII acting hand in
hand with Ukrainian policemen and German fascists. OUN militants perpetrated
assassinations of Polish politicians in the period between the two wars. The
organization took part in the Volyn massacre in 1945 and attacks against Polish
servicemen in late 1940s – early 1950s. Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, a Polish
Catholic priest, author and activist, is known for his uncompromised position
on the policy of making advances to Ukrainian nationalists. According tohim,
the Polish Minister of Defense desecrated the memory of those who lost lives in
the fight against Ukrainian nationalists and terrorists. He called on the
Minister to
resign on moral
grounds.
The plans to train Ukrainian nationalists
have become public domain. The military rushed to
