Andriy Melnyk (officer)

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[[File:Телеграмма Витиски 29.11.44.jpg|thumb|A November 1944 report of [[Bratislava|Pressburg]] [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] to [[Gestapo]] chief [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]], informing him about the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee]]

[[File:Телеграмма Витиски 29.11.44.jpg|thumb|A November 1944 report of [[Bratislava|Pressburg]] [[Sicherheitsdienst|SD]] to [[Gestapo]] chief [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]], informing him about the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee]]

In July 1944, Melnyk was moved first to Berlin where he was accused of holding political conversations with fellow arrested persons and trying to establish contact with the OUN-M in occupied-Ukraine.<ref name= "Radchenko 2023c"/> Subsequently he was sent to [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] and later moved on 4 September to a ''Zellenbau'' isolation cell, near where Bandera was also being held and from whom he learnt of the death of [[Oleh Olzhych]], the acting head of the OUN-M, before the Ukrainian political leadership were taken to Berlin in October to negotiate support for the Nazi authorities, who at this point were suffering from manpower shortages, whereby they sought political concessions pertaining to Ukrainian independence under the auspices of the [[Ukrainian National Committee]].<ref name="Kucheruk-Cherchenko 2011"/><ref name = "UCRDC 2023"/><ref name= "Radchenko 2023c"/> Melnyk and his supporters however were dissatisfied with the progress and value of these negotiations and instead organised a meeting in Berlin in January 1945 whereupon it was decided that OUN-M members would meet the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] advance and seek to familiarise the [[Western Allies]] with the Ukrainian independence movement.<ref name="RS 2021"/><ref name="Kucheruk-Cherchenko 2011"/> Melnyk left for [[Bad Kissingen]] in February, with the town occupied by American troops on April 7.<ref name="Kucheruk-Cherchenko 2011"/> Melnyk subsequently sent congratulatory telegrams to [[POTUS|President]] [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]], [[General of the Army (United States)|General]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]], and [[UK Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]].<ref name="RS 2021">{{cite web|website=Radio Svoboda|publisher=Radio Liberty|url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/oun-andriy-melnyk-dokumenty-kdb/31391878.html?|title=KGB against OUN leader Andriy Melnyk. Documents declassified|language=Ukrainian|date=3 August 2021}}</ref> The OUN-M's archives assert that Melnyk submitted a memorandum on 27 April to the Allied military administration, attempting to secure the right of Ukrainians freed from the [[concentration camps]] to be separated from Poles and Russians and allowed to display the [[Ukrainian flag|blue-and-yellow flag]], which was later the case.<ref name="Kucheruk-Cherchenko 2011">{{Cite book|url=http://www.archiveoun.info/andrii-melnyk-1890-1964-spohady-dokumenty-lystuvannia/|title=Andriy Melnyk 1890-1964: Memoirs, Documents, and Correspondence|last=Compiled by O. Kucheruk, Y. Cherchenko|year=2011|publisher=Olena Teliha Publishing House|location=Kyiv|pages=231–522|language=Ukrainian|isbn=978-966-355-061-9|accessdate=8 April 2020|archive-date=11 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200411153253/http://www.archiveoun.info/andrii-melnyk-1890-1964-spohady-dokumenty-lystuvannia/}}</ref>

In July 1944, Melnyk was moved first to Berlin where he was accused of holding political conversations with fellow arrested persons and trying to establish contact with the OUN-M in occupied-Ukraine.<ref name= "Radchenko 2023c"/> Subsequently he was sent to [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] and later moved on 4 September to a ''Zellenbau'' isolation cell, near where Bandera was also being held and from whom he learnt of the death of [[Oleh Olzhych]], the acting head of the OUN-M, before the Ukrainian political leadership were taken to Berlin in October to negotiate support for the Nazi authorities, who at this point were suffering from manpower shortages, whereby they sought political concessions pertaining to Ukrainian independence under the auspices of the [[Ukrainian National Committee]].<ref name="Kucheruk-Cherchenko 2011"/><ref name = "UCRDC 2023"/><ref name= "Radchenko 2023c"/> Melnyk and his supporters however were dissatisfied with the progress and value of these negotiations and instead organised a meeting in Berlin in January 1945 whereupon it was decided that OUN-M members would meet the [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] advance and seek to familiarise the [[Western Allies]] with the Ukrainian independence movement.<ref name="RS 2021"/><ref name="Kucheruk-Cherchenko 2011"/> Melnyk left for [[Bad Kissingen]] in February, with the town occupied by American troops on April 7.<ref name="Kucheruk-Cherchenko 2011"/> Melnyk subsequently sent congratulatory telegrams to [[POTUS|President]] [[Harry S. Truman|Truman]], [[General of the Army (United States)|General]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]], and [[UK Prime Minister|Prime Minister]] [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]].<ref name="RS 2021">{{cite web|website=Radio Svoboda|publisher=Radio Liberty|url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/oun-andriy-melnyk-dokumenty-kdb/31391878.html?|title=KGB against OUN leader Andriy Melnyk. Documents declassified|language=Ukrainian|date=3 August 2021}}</ref> According to the Cultural Bureau of the OUN-M (founded by Olzhych) and its archives, a group of senior Melnykites, in coordination with Melnyk, submitted a memorandum to the U.S. military administration whereby it was understood that displaced Ukrainians were to be afforded the right to be separated from Poles and Russians and allowed to display the [[flag of Ukraine|blue-and yellow flag]], which was later the case.<ref name="KR OUN 2018">{{cite web|url=https://kroun.info/podiyi/d1-81-d1-82-d0-b8-d0-bb-d1-8c-d1-96-d0-bf-d0-be-d1-81-d0-bb-d1-96-d0-b4-d0-be-d0-b2-d0-bd-d1-96-d1-81-d1-82-d1-8c-d0-bf-d0-be-d0-bb-d0-ba-d0-be-d0-b2-d0-bd-d0-b8-d0-ba-d0-b0-d0-b0-d0-bd-d0-b4/?|language=Ukrainian|title=The Style and Consistency of Colonel Andriy Melnyk|website=KR OUN|date=12 December 2018}}</ref>

== Post-WW2 ==

== Post-WW2 ==