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The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) arose out of separate militant formations of the OUN-Bandera faction (the OUNb).<ref>Vedeneyev, D. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150307183958/http://warhistory.ukrlife.org/5_6_02_4.htm Military Field Gendarmerie – special body of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]''. "Voyenna Istoriya" magazine. 2002.</ref> The political leadership belonged to the OUNb. It was the primary perpetrator of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.<ref>[http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf The July 1943 genocidal operations of OUN-UPA in Volhynia], pp=2-3; https://web.archive.org/web/20160401045104/http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/5199/The-July-1943-genocidal-operations-of-the-OUN-UPA-in-Volhynia.pdf</ref>
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) arose out of separate militant formations of the OUN-Bandera faction (the OUNb).<ref>Vedeneyev, D. ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150307183958/http://warhistory.ukrlife.org/5_6_02_4.htm Military Field Gendarmerie – special body of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]''. "Voyenna Istoriya" magazine. 2002.</ref> The political leadership belonged to the OUNb. It was the primary perpetrator of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.<ref>[http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf The July 1943 genocidal operations of OUN-UPA in Volhynia], pp=2-3; https://web.archive.org/web/20160401045104/http://www.volhyniamassacre.eu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/5199/The-July-1943-genocidal-operations-of-the-OUN-UPA-in-Volhynia.pdf</ref>
[[File:UPA massacre.jpg|250px|left|thumb|The UPA was formed out of the OUN.<ref>[https://www.academia.edu/39873146/The_OUN_the_UPA_and_the_Nazi_Genocide_in_Ukraine The OUN, the UPA, and the Nazi Genocide in Ukraine / Collaboration in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust], Ivan Katchanovski, 2019.</ref> It's flag was the red and black "Blood and Soil" flag. Euromaidanpress.com are vehemently anti-Russian and the OUN/UPA's chief apologists for [[genocide]].<ref>http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/12/27/history-of-oun-upa-the-bandera-controversy-that-eclipsed-200000-people-who-fought-for-the-independence-of-ukraine/</ref> Andrea Chalupa, who helped engineer narratives for the [[Trump-Russia collusion hoax]], works for Euromaidanpress.]]
Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20111014202829/https://www.kyivpost.com/news/ukraine/detail/114845/ Demotix: 69th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army]. 2011.</ref> The Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army at the period from December 1941 till July 1943 has the same name (Ukrainian Insurgent Army or UPA).<ref>Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Chapter 3 pp.104-154</ref>
The OUN's stated immediate goal was the re-establishment of a united, quasi-independent [[Nazi]]-aligned, mono-ethnic [[nation state]] on the territory that would include parts of modern day Russia, [[Poland]], and [[Belarus]]. Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a [[dictatorship]] that would drive out what they considered to be occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social classes.<ref>Myroslav Yurkevich, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv) ''This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).''</ref>
The OUN's stated immediate goal was the re-establishment of a united, quasi-independent [[Nazi]]-aligned, mono-ethnic [[nation state]] on the territory that would include parts of modern day Russia, [[Poland]], and [[Belarus]]. Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as domestic enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a [[dictatorship]] that would drive out what they considered to be occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social classes.<ref>Myroslav Yurkevich, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Orhanizatsiia ukrainskykh natsionalistiv) ''This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).''</ref>