Vasyl Kuk - UPA's General-Corporal about Roman Shukhevych

Vasyl Kuk, a general in the battalion, Roman Shukhevych's deputy, took part in the program "Echoes". He talks about Shukhevych and how he remembers him. The author and host of the program is Tamara Shapovalova.

Stepan Kuk was a Ukrainian military leader, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, general-corporal, leader of the UPA-South, and commander-in-chief of the UPA from 1950 to 1954 (after the death of Roman Shukhevych). He was captured by the troops of the USSR Ministry of State Security and spent 6 years in prison without a court order. The last years of his life he lived in Kyiv. He died on September 9, 2007.

Roman Shukhevych was born on June 30, 1907, in Lviv. Ukrainian politician, public and statesman. Member of the Galician regional leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He was an active member of the OUN, a general-corporal, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1943-1950), and head of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (1943-1950). A fighter for Ukrainian independence in the twentieth century. Shukhevych was killed on March 5, 1950, during a special operation by the Soviet secret services to arrest him.