The Kyiv District Administrative Court has completed the hearing of a lawsuit against the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and designated as unlawful the institute’s conclusion that the symbols of the SS Halychyna division, or the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), which operated during WWII, cannot be designated as symbols of a Nazi totalitarian regime.
“The Kyiv District Administrative Court has dismissed as unlawful the respondent’s conclusion that, in line with Ukrainian law, the symbols of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Halychyna, known also as the 1st Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Assembly [UNA, banned in Russia], do not constitute symbols of a National-Socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regime, the propagation of which is banned in Ukraine,” a statement published on the Ukrainian judiciary’s official website on May 27 said.
“The court obliged the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance and its officials to refrain from disseminating the abovementioned conclusion set out in letter No. 01/1015 of May 16, 2017,” it said.
The case was heard by a panel of judges of the Kyiv District Administrative Court, which has held about 20 open hearings.
