 In order to unite all Ukrainian national forces to fight for Ukrainian independence, Shukhevych organized a meeting between all the Ukrainian political parties.As a result, the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council ("UHVR") was formed.Shukhеvych perished (supposedly shot himself during his arrest by agents of the MGB (Ministry of State Security)) in an armed fight with an operational group of the MGB that attacked his hiding (kryivka) in village Bilohorshcha (today part of the city of Lviv) on March 5, 1950 when he was 42.