In May 2006 , the Ukrainian newspaper '' Ukraine Christian News '' commented : " Carrying out the massacre was the Einsatzgruppe C , supported by members of a Waffen-SS battalion and units of the Ukrainian auxiliary police , under the general command of Friedrich Jeckeln . The participation of Ukrainian collaborators in these events , now documented and proven , is a matter of painful public debate in Ukraine . " 109 , 114 , 115 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 201-st Ukrainian Schutzmannschaftant-battalions participated in anti-partisan operations in Ukraine and Belarus . In February and March 1943 , the 50th Ukrainian Schutzmannschaftant-battalion participated in the large anti-guerrilla action « Operation Winterzauber » ( Winter magic ) in Belarus , cooperating with several Latvian and the 2nd Lithuanian battalion . Schuma-battalions burned down villages suspected of supporting Soviet partisans . On March 22 , 1943 , all the inhabitants of the village of Khatyn in Belarus were burnt alive by the Nazis in what became known as the Khatyn massacre , with participation of the 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion
Khatyn massacre
Khatyn massacre
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany