This was announced by the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Zaporozhye region Alexei Selivanov.

“We can say that one of the first decisions of Yevgeny Balitsky was symbolic.

He signed decrees on renaming Dmitry Dontsov Street in Melitopol, he is the founder of Ukrainian integral nationalism, a native of the city of Melitopol.

This street was renamed in honor of Pavel Sudoplatov, also a native of Melitopol,” he said.

Sudoplatov is known, among other things, as the person who liquidated the head of the OUN * Yevgeny Konovalets.

The operation to eliminate Konovalets, which was carried out by the intelligence officer, went down in the history of Soviet intelligence.

On May 1, the Victory Banner was raised over the central square of Melitopol, which is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, for the first time in many years.

* Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (OUN-UPA) - a Ukrainian organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 11/17/2014).