Russia says it summoned Luxembourg envoy over exhumation of Ukrainian 'Nazi collaborator'

MOSCOW - 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."

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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This story was originally published May 28, 2026 at 3:13 AM.