“You know, just before that, I spoke with Konotop Mayor Artyom Semenikhin. This is a city 40 km from the border with Moscow ... I expressed a desire for us to work together and this year give them a monument to Stepan Bandera and erect them in Konotop on Bandera Street, ”Marcinkiv wrote on Facebook.
He also noted that for the Ukrainians Bandera is “a symbol of an indestructible struggle”, and at the same time he is “afraid” in Moscow.
Earlier, the Polish Embassy in Ukraine reacted negatively to the statement of the press secretary of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Yekaterina Zelenko, on the right of each people to independently determine their “heroes”.
On January 2, Poland and Israel expressed concern about honoring Stepan Bandera and other Nazi collaborators in Ukraine.