Overview
- The reburial was held Monday at the National Military Memorial Cemetery in the Kyiv region with President Volodymyr Zelensky and senior officials present.
- Melnyk and his wife were exhumed in Luxembourg on May 19 and their remains were returned to Ukraine on May 21 before public funeral services in Kyiv from May 22–24.
- Deputy head of the President’s Office Irina Vereshchuk said the government is drafting a law to create a Panтеон героїв that will set legal criteria and procedures for state reburials.
- The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory is compiling records and has identified more than 11,000 Ukrainians buried abroad to prioritize future repatriations and manage the logistics of returns.
- Officials said the campaign continues the longer project of restoring national memory started by earlier leaders and that permission is already secured to repatriate OUN founder Yevhen Konovalets next.