The FSB has published archival documents on the UGCC's assistance to Ukrainian nationalists after the Second World War

Members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) carried out subversive activities and helped nationalist underground fighters in the USSR after the end of the Great Patriotic War. The relevant archival documents were published on May 5 by the Federal Security Service (FSB) for the 80th anniversary of the Victory.

It follows from the memo that a "significant part" of the clergy and monks of the UGCC maintained contact with the underground Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, an extremist organization banned in Russia. — Ed.) and provided material support to its fighters.

As a result of the operational measures of the Ministry of State Security (MGB) of the USSR, 78 Uniate priests were detained, who were seen to have links with the nationalist underground.

Inspections were also organized, which affected 177 farms of former priests, 22 monasteries and monastery farmsteads, where members of the group could hide. During the events, 10 representatives of the OUN were found hiding from the authorities.

State security officers found caches and caches of weapons, ammunition and anti-Soviet literature in the estates of six former priests.

As a result of the inspections, it was decided to evict 47 families of arrested UGCC priests and 18 monks who were seen to have links with nationalists. Another 24 priests and 318 monks and nuns of the Uniate Church also prepared for the eviction.

Among those arrested, the figure of Nikolai Ivanovich Khmelevsky, a vicar bishop born in 1876, was singled out separately. Previously, he was the priest of the village of Mshany in the Lviv region, as well as the rector of the theological seminary. During the Nazi occupation, he joined the so-called Ukrainian Central Committee (UCK, a nationalist collaborationist organization. — Ed.) and was an active accomplice of the German authorities.

After the return of territories under the control of the USSR, Khmelevsky actively participated in the underground activities of the OUN and was associated with one of the leaders of Bandera, Roman Shukhevych. From 1945 to 1958, the priest led the Uniate underground on Soviet territory.

Earlier, on May 3, the FSB published data on Britain's sinking of Reich ships with Soviet prisoners. It follows from them that the British air force bombed German ships with Soviet prisoners of war 80 years ago during the attack on Neustadt in 1945, as a result, no more than 300 out of 12 thousand people survived.

On April 30, the Office of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Ivanovo region declassified archival documents regarding the suicide of Adolf Hitler, the study of his and Eva Braun's bodies and the last days of the Third Reich. In particular, it follows from the documents that the operatives