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Russia said on Thursday it had summoned the ambassador to Luxembourg to protest against the exhumation of the remains of Andriy Melnyk, a Ukrainian nationalist leader during World War Two whom Moscow described as a “Nazi collaborator.”
Spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova attends Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's news conference in Moscow, Russia, 20 January 2026. Lavrov gave a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2025. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
Melnyk, who sided with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, was reburied with full state honours with his wife near Kyiv on Monday after being exhumed in Luxembourg.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow regarded the reburial as a sign of disrespect towards the millions of victims of Nazi Germany.
(Reporting by Dmitry AntonovEditing by Andrew Osborn)
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