Leopold Yashchenko

Leader of Folk choir «Gomyn» Leopold Yaschenko during March of the Ukrainian insurgent army, devoted to the 68th anniversary of formation of UPA, in Kiev, on Thursday, on October, 14, 2010. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The group was the military wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalist — Bandera faction (the OUN-B), originally formed in Volyn (northwestern Ukraine) in the spring and summer of 1943. Photo by Aleksei Makulskiy / UNIAN