(Algemeiner) Ben Cohen - Israel's Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion on Tuesday condemned the decision of the Ternopil city council to name a soccer stadium after Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist Nachtigall battalion created by the Germans during World War II. According to Swedish academic Per Anders Rudling, "Roman Shukhevych personally helped set up the Ukrainian nationalist militia, which played a key role in the L'viv pogrom. Soldiers of Nachtigall partook in the July 1, 1941 L'viv pogrom, as well as massacres of Jews in the vicinity of Vinnytsia."
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