I roto i te whawhai whakapae o Kiev, i whakamoemitihia te pa rite te "Hero City", no te mea o tona ātete kaha. neke atu i te 600,000 hoia Soviet (ranei te hauwhā o te Soviet Western Front) i mate i reira ranei mau whakaraua, ki te maha te mamae kino kino. Ahakoa te nuinga o Ukrainians whawhai i roto i te taha o te Army Whero me te Soviet resistance, i roto i te Western Ukraine ara ake he motuhake Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, 1942). Hanga rite ope patu o te whenua raro (Organization o Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN) i whakawhanakehia i roto i Poland rite te whakahaere wehewehe motu.
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