#Thread Meet Michael Ratushnyy, head of the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council (UWCC). As you can imagine, with such a title, he gets around. Ratushnyy was first elected to the position in 2011 by the 5th World Forum of Ukrainians & re-elected in 2016. Buckle up, as they say...

The UWCC was set up in accordance with the 1st World Forum of Ukrainians, which took place in Kyiv in 1992. Former Rukh leader Ivan Drach was the first head of the UWCC. It sounds like the UWCC was intended to be a Kyiv-based/oriented counterpart to the diaspora-led @UWCongress.

Ratushnyy was one of a few members of the OUN-B's Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists elected to Ukraine's parliament in 1994 & in 1998. Not sure if/when he left the Banderite political party. In 2000 & 2001 he spoke at the first Center for US-Ukrainian Relations conferences in DC

I only just realized that Ratushnyy spoke at the first two conferences organized by the OUN-B affiliated Center for US-Ukrainian Relations (CUSUR). That is another Banderite to add to the list involved in this shady organization: https://banderalobby.substack.com/p/exposing-the-bandera-lobby-in-the

Fast forward to 2011, Ratushnyy was elected the new head of the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council. Not sure if he was the first Banderite to lead the organization, but he's been at the helm ever since, & will continue to be at least until next year. Now, lets look at his FB...

In April 2012, Ratushnyy attended a meeting in Munich of the OUN-B's World Conference of Ukrainian Statehood Organizations (aka the @ICSUkraine), the global coalition of Banderite NGOs. Seated b/w leaders of OUN-B and @UWCongress. Viatrovych in audience. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=409759082386997&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..

Wow. At this April 1, 2012 OUN-B meeting in Munich, dedicated to the 100th birthday of OUN-B leader Yaroslav Stetsko, Ratushnyy refers to present-day OUN-B leader Stefan Romaniw as the deputy leader of the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=409758942387011&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..

In September 2012, Ratushnyy met U.S. Representative Nita Lowey, apparently at a meeting of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America

February 2013, Ratushnyy takes a photo in the office of Svoboda's Ruslan Koshulinskiy, then the deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament)

During the Euromaidan, Ratushnyy took several photos with Marko and Ulana Suprun, everyone's favorite diasporan Banderite power couple. Also in the first pic is OUN-B leader Stefan Romaniw ("my combative deputy"? ["mій бойовий заступник"]) and his wife: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=740926875936881&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..&type=3

December 2013, Ratushnyy with Stepan Bandera's Canadian grandson in Kyiv, and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, probably also in Ukraine

January-February 2014, Mykhailo Ratushnyy pictured with OUN-B leader Stefan Romaniw, neo-fascist Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok, and white nationalist Maidan Self Defense commandant Andriy Parubiy, who co-founded 1990s neo-Nazi "Social National Party" (Svoboda predecessor)

January 2014, Ratushnyy with the "commandant of the revolutionary Kyiv City Council," Svoboda's Serhiy Rudyk. The first "Bandera Readings" event would be held there shortly ( https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=bandera.chyt&set=a.972051262875286)

October 2014, Ratushnyy meets Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh and members of Right Sector's Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK).

The day after sharing the above photos he took with Right Sector, Ratushnyy posted this photo of his son on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=932234986806068&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..

Ratushnyy took these photos at a torchlit march he attended to celebrate Bandera's birthday in 2015

June 2015, Ratushnyy at the grave at Stepan Bandera with staff of the Ukrainian Consulate in Munich and members of the Ukrainian community in Bavaria https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1090335730995992&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..&type=3

July 2015, Ratushnyy visiting the Azov Battalion

July 2015, Ratushnyy with UNA-UNSO's Igor Mazur. According to this Facebook post, the man on the left, Olexandr Ushynskyi, who I believe was involved with UNSO and Right Sector, is/was a member of the UWCC presidium https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1106838349345730&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..

October 2015, back in Munich for the 56th anniversary of Stepan Bandera's assassination

November 2015, back in Ukraine, Ratushnyy showing support for Svoboda's Yuriy Syrotiuk https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1163396427023255&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..; https://twitter.com/mossrobeson__/status/1219693310568206338

Meanwhile in November 2015, Ratushnyy attending the unveiling of the Holodomor memorial in Washington DC. In the 2nd photo, he is pictured with Walter Zaryckyj, executive director of CUSUR and alleged US leader of OUN-B, and Stefan Romaniw, the international leader of the OUN-B.

At the 2015 unveiling of the Holdomor memorial in DC, Ratushnyy met U.S. Representative Sander Levin, who believe it or not was perhaps the best friend the Banderites have had in Congress in the last 30 years. Standing in the middle is longtime OUN-B operative Borys Potapenko.

On New Year's Day 2016, the 107th anniversary of Stepan Bandera's birthday, Ratushnyy attended this torchlit march in Kyiv. That's Ulana Suprun on the right in the second photo, which it seems he took.

But wait, there's more! (Can only post so many tweets at once)

January 2016: Ratushnyy at the 9th annual Ukraine-Europe Forum, held in Lódz, Poland: "Ukraine Forum Reform and Modernization Strategy – A Breakthrough in the Making?"

February 2016: Ratushnyy attends the unveiling at the OUN-B headquarters of a plaque to Ivan Gavdida, the "godfather" of the OUN-B's anti-Semitic "Youth Nationalist Congress." More about that group here: https://banderalobby.substack.com/p/ukraines-bandera-youth

March 2016: Ratushnyy meets with Paul Grod, Banderite president of the Ukrainian World Congress and before that the Ukrainian Canadian Congress

April 2016: in Stockholm, having a meeting with representatives of Sweden's Ukrainian community, joined by Svoboda's Serhiy Rudyk

April 2016: Ratushnyy and Svoboda's Serhiy Rudyk ask police in Stockholm to pretend to arrest them. Ha ha ha.....

August 2016: Ratushnyy receiving an award from Poroshenko? https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1372281399468089&set=pb.100000587270958.-2207520000..

September 2016: Ratushnyy meets with Azov's Oleksandr Chupryniuk https://twitter.com/kooleksiy/status/1056971338294943745

November 2016: Ratushnyy and Petro Rewko, chairman of the board of the Association of Ukrainian of Great Britain. He also met with others from the OUN-B affiliated organization (see pic 2)

April 2017: Ratushny and Svoboda's Serhiy Rudyk with a representative of the Ukrainian community in Romania. At this point I'm guessing that Rudyk is part of the UWCC.

December 2017: Ratushnyy speaking at some kind of event, maybe a press conference, organized by Right Sector's Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK)

January 2019: https://twitter.com/mossrobeson__/status/1303150375483174913

February 2019: Ratushnyy with far-right leaders of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN-M, Svoboda,

March 2019: Ratushnyy with Askold Lozynskyj, longtime OUN-B operative in the United States, and the Lozynskyj family (2nd pic)

July 2019: Ratushnyy once again with Svoboda's Ruslan Koshulinskiy (left), whom the far-right had united around weeks prior in the 2019 presidential elections in Ukraine

September 2019: Ratushnyy with far-right leaders of Tryzub (which spearheaded the creation of Right Sector), the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN-M, and UNSO

October 2019: Ratushnyy at a "No Capitulation!" protest with former Right Sector medic Yana Zinkevich, a prominent member of Poroshenko's European Solidarity party

November 2019: Ratushnyy sitting in the front row at a "Capitulation Resistance Movement" forum in Kyiv. So are the OUN-B's Borys Potapenko and Oleh Medunitsya.

December 2019: Ratushnyy with various affiliates of the OUN-B at a "No Capitulation" protest, including Marko Suprun, Stefko Bandera, and Pavlo Bilous of "Free People." Also in the middle is UNA-UNSO's Igor Mazur, a leader of "Capitulation Resistance Movement"

February 2020: Ratushnyy and Bandera's Canadian grandson at the annual "Bandera Readings" event in Kyiv

July 2020: Ratushnyy and the leader of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, who if I remember correctly is related to OUN-B leader Slava Stetsko (if only by marriage)

August 2020: Ratushnyy and leaders of the "Capitulation Resistance Movement," Pavlo Bilous, Igor Mazur, Mykhailo Basarab, and Serhiy Kvit

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