KIEV, April 1. /TASS/. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on Wednesday that it would adopt the experience of the relevant structures of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-UPA) — an ultra-right terrorist organization in Western Ukraine in the 1930's-50's of the last century.

"SBU does not need to invent anything extra — it is important to build on the traditions and approaches of the OUN-UPA security service. It [the security service] worked against the aggressor during the temporary occupation of the territory, it had a patriotic upbringing, used a counterintelligence unit, and had relied on the peaceful Ukrainian population using its support," SBU head Valentyn Nalyvaichenko told the Kiev-based Den (Day) newspaper in an interview. According to him, he has already studied very well the methods of the founders of the OUN security service.

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists during World War II worked for German intelligence. In 1943, OUN organized the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), forming the backbone of the SS Division Galicia. OUN-UPA militants killed at least a million people, including almost 200 thousand Poles.