The Court of Appeal of the Kiev region rehabilitated the Petlyura ataman of the Kiev region Fyodor Artemenko-Orlik and his associates Yakov Khomenko-Smutenko and Fedor Nogu, who in the early twentieth century resisted the communist totalitarian regime, fighting for the independence of Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Kiev region, reports UNN.

"In the order of. 7 of the Law of Ukraine "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression in Ukraine", the decision of the Court of Appeal of the Kiev region rehabilitated the Petlyura Ataman of the Kiev region Artemenko-Orlik Fyodor Petrovich and his brothers Khomenko-Smutenko Yakov Nestorovich and Noga Fedor Arhipovich, "reads the message..

As noted, they resisted the communist totalitarian regime, participated in armed groups of the Ukrainian People's Republic and committed other actions that undoubtedly testify to their struggle for Ukraine's independence in the early twentieth century.

Thus, in the Kiev region in 1920-1922, the detachments under the chairmanship of Ataman Orlik in the area of ??Irpen, Buchi, Gostomel, Vorzel, Klavdievo, Borodyanka, Teterev, Radomyshl, Ivankov, Dymer, Chernobyl, Fastov, Makarov began their struggle against the Bolshevik invaders, who attacked The Bolshevik garrisons and military units of the Red Army carried out agitation work among the population.

It was established that for his liberating activity by the decision of the Kiev Provincial Extraordinary Commission on February 26, 1922, Artemenko-Orlik Fyodor Petrovich, Khomenko-Smutenko Yakov Nestorovich and Noga Fedor Arkhipovich were recognized as enemies of the Soviet government, incorrigible bandits and sentenced under art.. 58, art.. 68 h. 1,2 st. 76 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR in 1922 to the death penalty - the execution.

The study of the archival criminal case established that these individuals were unreasonably convicted for the struggle for Ukrainian independence, which manifested itself in the participation and leadership of the armed units of the UPR, as well as in the fight against the acting authorities in a different way.

The prosecutor's office of the Kyiv region upheld its principled position regarding the recognition of the unjustified conviction of the Petlyura ataman of the Kiev region and his two companions to the maximum penalty - shot and achieved their rehabilitation.

reference. Simon Petliura (1879-1926) - Ukrainian political and revolutionary figure, head of the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 1919 to 1920. After the February Revolution he organized and headed the Ukrainian Front Committee and fought against the Red Army. After the defeat of the Directory, the Bolshevik troops fled to Warsaw and concluded an agreement with the Poles. In the summer of 1920 he went abroad. Since 1924, he lived in Paris, where he was killed by an anarchist Samuel Schwarzbard from revenge for Jewish pogroms in Ukraine.