Session of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional council declared the year 2017 in the Carpathian region the year of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

As stated in the document, this was done "for the purpose of objective coverage of the activities of the Ukrainian liberation movement". For this purpose, various activities.

"The Soviet propaganda machine has created a number of myths, which quite often prevail to this day, although a significant part of the society every year, learning new pages from the history of the liberation movement, changes its attitude towards the Ukrainian insurgent army," commented the director of the Regional Museum of the Liberation Fight Stepan Bandery Yaroslav Koretchuk.

In April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law "On the legal status and commemoration of the fighters for the independence of Ukraine in the twentieth century". Fighters for the independence of Ukraine in the XX century are recognized as persons who took part in all forms of political, armed and other collective and individual struggle for the independence of Ukraine. The law lists dozens of organizations, from the Sichovyi Streltsy, OUN, UPA and to the People's Rukh. The law obliges the state and local governments to provide social guarantees, benefits or other payments to fighters for Ukrainian independence in the twentieth century and members of their families.