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The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was a military-political formation that operated in Ukraine from 1942 to 1960. The first units of the UPA in the Polissya Sich were formed by Taras Bulba-Borovets on June 28, 1941. For some time, members of the OUN did not support the armed struggle against the Germans, calling the partisans agents of Stalin and Sikorsky.
They began active activity only in the spring of 1943 in the territories that were part of: the Reich Commissariat Ukraine (General District of Volyn-Podillia) - from the end of March 1943, the General Governorate (Galicia - from the end of 1943, Kholmshchyna - from the fall of 1943) and Romanian Transnistria (Northern Bukovina) - from the summer of 1944. Separate units also operated in the territory of eastern Ukraine, in the Donbass and even in the Kuban.
According to the position of the OUN(b), the official date of the creation of the UPA is considered to be October 14, 1942, although some historians consider this date to be conditionally propaganda and move the period of its foundation forward by about half a year. In May 1943, the OUN(b) units began to be officially called the “Ukrainian Insurgent Army”. The ranks of the UPA were replenished by volunteers from among ideological nationalists, defectors from the auxiliary police, and deserters from the Red Army.
