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Zelensky Orders Reburial of Yevhen Konovalets in Kyiv

8/11/2026

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arranged for Yevhen Konovalets’ remains to be reburied at the Cemetery, scheduling a farewell service at Kyiv’s Cathedral of Resurrection Christ.
Officials, Ukrainian diaspora and clergy and Kyrylo Budanov, Andriy Sybiga and Oleksandr Alferov attended the exhumation at Rotterdam’s Crooswijk Cemetery.
The remains will be temporarily interred in the Memorial Cemetery of War while a pantheon is planned, though no honoree list is released.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arranged for Yevhen Konovalets’ remains to be reburied at the Cemetery, scheduling a farewell service at Kyiv’s Cathedral of Resurrection Christ.
Officials, Ukrainian diaspora and clergy and Kyrylo Budanov, Andriy Sybiga and Oleksandr Alferov attended the exhumation at Rotterdam’s Crooswijk Cemetery.
The remains will be temporarily interred in the Memorial Cemetery of War while a pantheon is planned, though no honoree list is released.