armed groups that were active during World War II and the first decade after the war) were officially granted the status of veterans. This meant that for the first time they could receive veteran benefits, including free public transport, subsidized medical services, annual monetary aid, and public utilities discounts (and will enjoy the same social benefits as former Ukrainian soldiers Red Army of the Soviet Union). There had been several previous attempts to provide former Ukrainian nationalist fighters with official veteran status, especially during the 2005–2009 administration President Viktor Yushchenko, but all failed. Leaders Early OUN OUN (Melnyk) Andriy Melnyk (1940–1964) Oleh Shtul (1964–1977) Denys Kvitkovskyi (1977–1979) Mykola Plaviuk (1979–2012) Bohdan Chervak (2012–present) OUN (Bandera) Stepan Bandera (1940–1959) Stepan Lenkavskyi (1959–1968) Yaroslav Stetsko (1968–1986) Vasyl Oleskiv (1986–1991) Slava Stetsko (1991–2001) Andriy Haidamakha (2001–2009) Stefan Romaniw (2009–2022) Oleh Medunytsia (2022–present) OUN (abroad) Zenon Matla (1954–1956) Lev Rebet (1956–1957) Roman Ilnytskyi (1957–?) Bohdan Kordyuk (?–1979) Daria Rebet (1979–1991) Anatol Kaminskyi (1991–present) See also Warsaw Process References Notes Footnotes Bibliography Gomza, I. (2015). Elusive Proteus: A study in the ideological morphology of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 48(2/3), 195–207. Jonathan Levy, The Intermarium: Wilson, Madison, & East Central European Federalism. Paul Robert Magocsi (1989), Morality and Reality: the Life and Times of Andrei Sheptytskyi, Edmonton Alberta: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, . Grzegorz Motyka (2005), Służby bezpieczeństwa Polski i Czechosłowacji wobec Ukraińców (1945–1989), Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, Warszawa, . Rossoliński-Liebe, G. (2019). Inter-Fascist Conflicts in East Central Europe: The Nazis, the “Austrofascists,” the Iron Guard, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In G. Rossoliński-Liebe & A. Bauerkämper (Eds.), Fascism without Borders: Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945 (1st ed., pp. 168–191). Berghahn Books. Shkandrij, M. (2015). The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956 (pp. 101–132). Yale University Press. Władysław Siemaszko, Ewa Siemaszko (2000), Ludobójstwo dokonane przez nacjonalistów ukraińskich na ludności polskiej Wołynia 1939–1945, Kancelaria Prezydenta Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, Warszawa, tom I i II, 1,433 pages, photos, quells, . Orest Subtelny, Ukraine: A History, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988, . Andrew Wilson, The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, . Антонюк Ярослав Діяльність, "СБ ОУН на Волині." Луцьк : «Волинська книга», 2007. – 176 с. Антонюк Ярослав Діяльність, "СБ ОУН(б) на Волині таЗахідному Поліссі (1946–1951)" : Монографія. – Луцьк: «Надстир'я-Ключі», 2013.