DECREE OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE №18 / 2022

UNVEILED HISTORY

Mykola Kapustyanskyi. A Footstep Away from the Planned Assassination by Soviet MGB Agents

The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine publishes the second part of the materials about the early 1950s’ top-secret operation of the USSR MGB to liquidate one of the leaders of the Ukrainian emigration, a talented Commander of the UPR Army, Minister of Military Affairs in exile, one of the OUN leaders General Mykola Kapustyanskyi. The top secrecy is evidenced by the fact that a number of documents were written only by hand in one copy and kept separately in the appendix to the case, and later - in a special package in the archives of the Soviet Intelligence in Moscow. The schemes, methods and means of assassination tested in this operation were later improved and applied by the USSR KGB during the liquidation of OUN leaders Lev Rebet in 1957 and Stepan Bandera in 1959.