Add as a favourite source on Google Add DutchNews as a favourite source on GoogleSee more DutchNews articles in your Google search resultsSee more DutchNews articles in your Google search resultsThe remains of a Ukrainian soldier who was murdered in Rotterdam by the Soviet secret services in 1938 are being repatriated for a military burial. Colonel Yevhen Konovalets, the founder of a Ukrainian nationalist group, was killed by a bomb concealed in a box of chocolates as he walked home from a meeting with an undercover agent. The Soviet spy had infiltrated the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and handed Konovalets the chocolates as a gift during a meeting at a hotel in Rotterdam on May 23, 1938. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky announced on his official website that the colonel’s remains had been exhumed at Crooswijk Cemetery in Rotterdam so that they could be sent back to Ukraine. The OUN was founded in 1929 in Vienna as a right-wing nationalist organisation that aimed to establish an independent, ethnically homogenous Ukrainian state.